Bridget's Game
Hex A Deck game type. 2 decks. 1 redeal.
Object
Move all cards to the Foundations.
Quick description
Similar to Lara's Game with sixteen
rows, one redeal and Hex A Deck
variations.
Rules
Refer to the description of the deal in Lara's Game. The
differences are that the cards are dealt to seventeen piles instead
of fourteen and if a dealt card is of rank eleven or over one card
is dealt to the talon. Otherwise the dealing rules are the same.
Play is the same as Lara's Game with two exceptions. The first
exception is that there is one redeal. When the talon is empty
after the first round the cards are gathered up from the tableau
and dealt to the rows without being shuffled using the same dealing
rules as in the first round.
The other exception is the extra reserve stack just to the right
of the rows and the top foundations. This reserve stack has the
potential to save a game that would otherwise be lost. The way it
works is this. When empty it will accept any Wizard card, but only
from a foundation. Once a Wizard has been played on it, it will
accept one card only from any row stack. Once played on the stack,
cards can only be remove from it to a foundation.
Strategy
Don't play on the extra reserve stack unless you are sure the top
card will play to a foundation soon.
Notes
This game is dedicated to the memory of Bridget Bishop, hanged as a
witch on June 10, 1692 in Salem Massachusetts, U. S. A. and to the
nineteen other victims of that notorious witch hunt.