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<h1>Gate</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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Gate is a solitaire card game which is playing using a deck of 52 playing
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cards. It is called such because the cards are laid own in such a way that
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they form a gate.
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First, two columns of five cards are laid out face-up with their faces
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showing. These act as the reserve or "gate posts." Then, between these
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columns, two rows of four cards are dealt, again face-up. These compose the
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"rails" or the tableau. The spaces for the foundations are allotted over the
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first row of cards.
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The object of the game, like solitaire games, is to find the aces, place then
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onto the foundations, and build each of them up by suit to kings.
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The cards in the rails are available for play, to be placed on the foundations
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or onto other cards in the rail. The cards in the rails are built down by
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alternating color (a card with a red suit over a one with a black suit, and
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vice versa). Spaces in the rails are filled using cards from the gate posts.
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If the cards in the gate posts are used up, the top card of the wastepile, or
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the next card in the stock if there is no wastepile, can be used to fill
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spaces. The gate posts are never replenished.
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Generally, one card can be moved at a time. The most prevalent rule regarding
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moves of sequences is that sequences can be moved as a whole. However, there
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is a rule set which does not allow moving groups of cards, effectively making
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the game harder (mentioned in <i>Card Games Made Easy</i> by Marks and Harrod,
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ISBN 1-899606-17-3).
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The stock can be dealt one card at a time to a wastepile. The top card of
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which is available for play, either to placed in on the foundations or on the
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rails, or to fill a gap on the rails. However, once the stock runs out, there
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are no redeals.
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The game ends soon after the stock runs out. The game is won when all cards
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are played to the foundations.
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<i>(Retrieved from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_%28solitaire%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_(solitaire)</a>)</i>
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