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<h1>Virginia Reel</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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Virginia Reel is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing
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cards mixed together. The object of the game is to place all the cards in the
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24 foundations.
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<p>
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First three cards, a 2, a 3, and a 4, are placed vertically. Then, beside each
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of the three cards is a row of seven cards. The first card in each row shows
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that it is the row for all other cards with the same rank. The first row is
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known as the "2s' row," the second row the "3s' row," and the third row the
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"4s' row."
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<p>
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A fourth row of eight cards is dealt. This serves as the reserve with each
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card forming a pile.
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<p>
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The foundations are built up by suit in intervals of three. The table below
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shows how.
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<pre>
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<b>2</b> 5 8 J
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<b>3</b> 6 9 Q
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<b>4</b> 7 10 K
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</pre>
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<p>
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To play, a card can be moved to a foundation or to a rightful row from the
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other rows or from the reserve. But the player has to bear in mind that when a
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card is moved from anywhere in the tableau, <i>the gap it leaves behind must be
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filled with a card appropriate for the row where the gap is located</i>. For
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instance, when a card has left the 2s' row, the gap it left behind must be
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filled with a 2, either from the other rows or from the reserve. This is
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especially true at the beginning of the game, where some cards are on each
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other's rows like a 4 in the 3s' row and a 3 in the 4s' row. Exchanging cards
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to their rightful rows in this case is also possible.
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While the first card in each row is already a foundation in itself and it can
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be built on, once a card ends up in its proper row no matter where in the row,
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it becomes a foundation itself.
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The top cards in the reserve are in play and can be placed on the foundations,
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or be placed on a row (if it is a 2, 3, or 4), but empty piles are not filled
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until a new batch of eight cards are dealt every time no more moves are
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possible.
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Aces play no part in this game. Any ace that is in the reserve is immediately
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discarded. But an ace in any of the rows must be replaced by any applicable
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card for that row. So in order to discard an ace from the 2s' row, for
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example, a 2 must be available to replace it.
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The game is considered won when all the cards are in foundations, with all
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face cards on top.
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<p>
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<h3>Royal Parade</h3>
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Royal Parade is another solitaire card game which is played much the same way
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as Virginia Reel. The difference between this game and Virginia Reel is that
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in Royal Parade when a card is moved from anywhere in the tableau, <i>the gap
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it leaves behind does not have to be filled right away</i>. It can be filled
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later by a card appropriate for the row that the gap is located in.
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<i>(Retrieved from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Reel_%28solitaire%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Reel_(solitaire)</a>)</i>
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