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<h1>Four Seasons</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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Four Seasons is a solitaire card game which is played with a deck of playing
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cards. It is given the more appropriate alternate names of <b>Corner Card</b>
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and <b>Vanishing Cross</b> because of where the foundations are placed and the
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arrangement of the tableau respectively.
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First, five cards are dealt in form of a cross: three cards are placed in a
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row, then two cards are each placed above and below the middle of the three
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cards. A sixth card is dealt in the upper left corner of the cross. This card
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will be the base for the first of four foundations. The three cards of the
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same rank are placed in the other three corners of the cross to become the
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foundations themselves.
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The foundations are built up in suit and building is round-the-corner, i.e.
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aces are placed above kings, except when aces are the foundation bases.
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Cards in the cross are built down regardless of suit and any space in the
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cross is filled with any available card, whether it is the top card of a pile
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within the cross, the top card of the wastepile, or a card from the stock.
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Like the foundations, building in the cross is round-the-corner, i.e. kings
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are placed over aces, unless aces are the foundations. Only one card can be
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moved at a time.
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Whenever the game goes on a standstill, the stock is dealt one card at a time
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into the wastepile, the top card of which is available for play on the cross
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or on the foundations. There is no redeal.
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The game ends when goes on another standstill after the stock has run out. The
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game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.
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<h3>Variations</h3>
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Below are the variations of Four Seasons:
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<ul>
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<li>In <b>Czarina</b>, any space in the cross is immediately filled only from
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the stock.
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<li>In <b>Corners</b>, the cross is in fact a reserve, not a tableau, and each
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space is a cell, which should have room for only one card. Empty cells in this
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game are filled immediately from the stock.
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<li><b>Simplicity</b> is played like Four Seasons. The only exception is that
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the tableau (instead of a cross) contains twelve cards dealt into two rows of
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six. The thirteenth card deal becomes the base of the first formation. Also,
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building in the tableau is down by alternating colors.
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</ul>
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<i>(Retrieved from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_%28solitaire%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_(solitaire)</a>)</i>
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