Four Colors Patience

This patience trains moving cards with alternating colors and at the same time playing up in the same suit on the Aces. In addition, cellar cards are used in Four Colors Patience.

# Layout

Four vertical rows of the same suit with 13 overlapping cards each are formed. Cards are revealed one by one from the stock and placed in a row. It’s best to start in the first row with , in the second row place all cards, then and in the last row all cards with .

# Objective

The four Aces to be cleared are followed by ascending same-suit building up to the King.

# Gameplay

At the beginning, four vertical rows with 13 same-suit cards each lie out completely unsorted. To the right of them, three more helper rows are available, which may be filled with any card. Now you must clear the Aces and build up on them in the same suit up to the King. You may move cards and sequences only in descending order with alternating colors, which is not always so easy. However, four cellar cards can help. But only one suit may lie in the cellar at a time. So if a 4 is already in the cellar, for example, no 9 may go there anymore, but only one card each of the suits , and . So you should be careful which card you place in the cellar – so you don’t take away an important cellar space for another card.

# Summary

• Draw cards from the stock and lay out in four vertical rows in the same suit, so in the first row , second row , third row and fourth row
• To the right of them are three more empty rows, can be filled with any card and sequence
• Moving is only permitted in descending order with alternating colors, but sequences may also be moved
• For help there are four cellar cards, but each suit (, , and ) may only occur once at a time
• Objective: ascending same-suit build from Ace to King