<h1>Seven Devils</h1> <h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3> <p> Seven Devils is arguably the most difficult of all solitaire games. It is a two pack game widely available as a computer version. <p> 28 cards are dealt out to seven diminishing columns with the bottom card of each column face up, and a further seven cards (the "devil") are dealt face up to the right of the columns. <p> The aim is to move all the cards into thirteen-card sequences on the goal piles (at the right of the board), ascending in sequence and following suit, starting with the Aces. <p> Cards on the table can be stacked red-on-black in descending sequence. Any card can be used to fill an empty column. <p> Only one card can be moved at a time, but if there are empty columns multiple cards can be moved as if the empty columns were used as temporary spots. <p> The seven devils in the right-hand stack cannot be placed on other stacks, and can be moved only to the goal piles. <p> The difficulty of this game arises from three factors <ul> <li>Many games are unwinnable from the start. If two higher cards overlie any card in the same suit in the devil, the lower card can never be reached. <li>Even if this is not the case, if high cards overlay lower ones in the devil, the low cards can be very difficult to get to. <li>If low cards like twos or threes cannot be played to a column, they will be buried in the discard pile, and become difficult to retrieve. <li>Key low cards may be hidden face down in columns where they may well prove inaccessible </ul> <p> <i>(Retrieved from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Devils">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Devils</a>)</i>