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