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<h1>Captive Queens</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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<p>
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Captive Queens is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. The
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game is so named because the queens are being "enclosed" as the foundations
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are built.
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<p>
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There are two ways that the queens are played in this game: either they are
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laid in the center of the tableau immediately or shuffled into the deck and
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laid out later. Either way, their role is just purely decorative and have no
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further part in the game.
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<p>
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The game starts by laying the cards from the stock one at a time into a
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wastepile in search for fives or sixes. Once any of these cards are found, it
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becomes a foundation and can be placed on a circle surrounding the area where
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queens are placed; it can be built upon immediately. The foundations' places
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in this circle are irrelevant.
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<p>
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The fives are built down and the sixes are built up, all by suit. Here's the
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chart of which cards are placed on these cards:
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<pre>
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5 4 3 2 A K
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6 7 8 9 10 J
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</pre>
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<p>
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After the foundation cards are found, the rest of the stock is dealt to look
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for cards that can be built in to the foundations. In case the queens are
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shuffled into the deck, when a queen is found, it is placed on the center.
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<p>
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Once the stock runs out, the cards are gathered from the wastepile and become
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the new stock from which cards are to be dealt. This can only be done twice in
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the whole game.
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<p>
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The game is won when all the cards are in the foundations with the face cards
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(kings and jacks) are at the top of each foundation.
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<i>(Retrieved from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Queens">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Queens</a>)</i>
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