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"HTML Tidy for HTML5 for Linux version 5.4.0" />
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<h1>Sanibel</h1>
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<p>Yukon / Forty Thieves hybrid. 2 decks. No redeal.</p>
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<h3>Object</h3>
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<p>Move all cards to the foundations.</p>
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<h3>Rules</h3>
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<p>Foundations are built up in suit from Ace to King. Cards in the
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Foundations are no longer available for play in the Tableau. It is
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not compulsory to play any card to the Foundations.</p>
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<p>The Tableau is built down by alternate color. Any group of cards
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may be moved regardless of sequence, so long as the bottom card of
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the group is placed on top of a card (in a different pile) that is
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the next higher card in rank and of the opposite color. An empty
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pile in the Tableau can be filled with any group of cards, even a
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single card.</p>
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<h3>History</h3>
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<p><i>From John Stoneham, Sanibel's inventor:</i></p>
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<p>Sanibel and Captiva are islands off the coast of Ft. Meyers,
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Florida. One summer while vacationing there, I played through all
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the games described in <i>The Complete Book of Solitaire &
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Patience Games</i> by Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith
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(published by Bantam, I believe). I really liked the play of Yukon
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but thought the Tableau limited the strategic potential of the
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game, so I added an extra deck and experimented with the Tableau
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layout, aiming for a game that was almost entirely strategic in
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nature but not on the 10th order of mental magnitude. The result is
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Sanibel. The number of face-up cards initially dealt to the Tableau
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determines how much "luck" will play a factor in the game. If you
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only deal 3 or 4 face-up cards to each pile retaining the balance
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in the Reserve, chances are you will loose some games. Technically,
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there is nothing wrong with that, and sometimes I will play it this
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way. On the other hand, dealing every card face up (except the last
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4) takes away nothing from the game and only serves to increase the
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strategy involved. I prefer the 3-down-7-up layout, since the face
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down cards and the small Reserve give you something immediate to
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work for, and it can generate a little suspense when you know there
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is a card buried that you need and you're trying to find a way to
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uncover it...</p>
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<h3>Strategy</h3>
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<p>This is entirely a game of skill: if you loose, you just weren't
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paying attention. Your first priority should be to expose all the
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face-down cards and get the rest of the Reserve into play. Also, do
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not play a card onto a Foundation simply because you can (Aces are
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OK; Twos are probably safe as well): you may need it for building
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in the Tableau. You will find that you do not need to calculate
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very long sequences to finish the game, but sometimes a bit of
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calculation is necessary to expose the buried cards. Sometimes the
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piles can grow longer than can be displayed in the window. This
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usually isn't a problem, since you can break up the pile fairly
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often when other plays become available. Here's something that's a
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lot of fun: If you have arranged the cards in proper sequence,
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playing as few to the Foundations as possible during the game, one
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press of the "Auto" button can play 90 or more cards to the
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Foundations. It is possible to have every card in the Tableau at
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the end of the game, even the Aces; the "Auto" button shoots them
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all up to the Foundations in one long riffle!</p>
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<h3>Author</h3>
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<p>This game and documentation has been written by <a href=
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"mailto:obijohn99@aol.com">John Stoneham</a> and is part of the
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official PySol distribution.</p>
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<p><i>Copyright (C) 1998 by <a href="mailto:obijohn99@aol.com">John
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Stoneham</a>. These rules are free; you can redistribute them
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and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version.</i></p>
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