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<h1>Grand Duchess</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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Grand Duchess (also known as Duchess de Luynes) is a solitaire card game which
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is played with two decks of playing cards. One unique feature of this game is
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the building of the reserve, which is not used until the entire stock runs
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out.
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First, four cards are dealt face-up, one onto each tableau pile, and two more
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cards are dealt face-down on the reserve to be used later. After each deal of
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six cards, the player pauses to see if any cards are playable. Available for
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play to the foundations (which are above the four tableau piles) are the top
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cards of each tableau pile.
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As they become available, one ace and one king of each suit are placed in the
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foundations. The aces are built up to kings while the kings are built down to
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aces, all by suit. Furthermore, once a foundation card is set, any can be
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built upon it at any time.
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Once the player builds the necessary cards one could, another set of six is
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dealt: one on each of the four tableau piles and two face-down ones set aside
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on the reserve. Afterwards, the plays builds more cards and the process is
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repeated until the stock runs out. Once this occurs, the entire reserve is
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turned face-up. All cards in that reserve become available to built on the
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foundations, along with the top cards of each reserve pile.
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When play goes on a stand still (when the tableau and the reserve no longer
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yields playable cards), the player is then entitled to three redeals. To do a
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redeal, the player picks up first tableau pile and places it over the second
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pile, picks up that newly formed pile and puts in over the third pile, and
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these three piles are then laid over the fourth pile. Then, the piles are
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turned face-down to form the new stock, and the remaining reserve piles are
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placed under it. On the first two redeals, the process of dealing one card on
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each of the four tableau piles and two more on the reserve faced down,
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stopping each time to make any play, and using the reserve when the stock runs
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out is repeated. But on the last redeal, there is no more reserve; all cards
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are dealt four at a time, one on each tableau pile.
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The game ends soon after the stock runs out in the last redeal. The game is
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won when all cards end up in the foundations.
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<h3>Parisienne</h3>
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Parisienne (also known as La Parisienne or Parisian) is a variant of Grand
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Duchess. The game is played like Grand Duchess except the before the game
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starts, one ace and one king of each suit is removed from the deck and placed
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on the foundations.
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<i>(Retrieved from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_%28solitaire%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_(solitaire)</a>)</i>
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