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<h1>Big Ben</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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<p>Big Ben (or known in other solitaire brands as Clock) is a
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solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards mixed
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together. It is basically a large-scale, two-deck version of
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<a href="grandfathersclock.html">Grandfather's Clock</a> and is
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probably named after Big Ben, the colloquially used nickname for
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the clock face at the tower of the Palace of Westminster in
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London.</p>
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<p>Before the start of the game, the following cards are separated
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from the decks: 2<img src="../images/c.gif" />, 3<img src=
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"../images/h.gif" />, 4<img src="../images/s.gif" />, 5<img src=
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"../images/d.gif" />, 6<img src="../images/c.gif" />, 7<img src=
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"../images/h.gif" />, 8<img src="../images/s.gif" />, 9<img src=
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"../images/d.gif" />, 10<img src="../images/c.gif" />, J<img src=
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"../images/h.gif" />, Q<img src="../images/s.gif" />, K<img src=
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"../images/d.gif" />. These cards to form a circle arranged like
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numbers on a clock face with the 2<img src="../images/c.gif" /> on
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the "9 o' clock" position, the 5<img src="../images/d.gif" /> at
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the "12 o' clock" position, and the K<img src="../images/d.gif" />
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at the "8 o' clock." This will be the foundations, or the "inner
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circle" (otherwise known as the "clock").</p>
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<p>Twelves piles of three cards are then dealt around the inner
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circle. These piles form the tableau, or the "outer circle." The
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top cards of the outer circle are available for play to the inner
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circle or around the outer circle. Building on the outer circle is
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down by suit, while the foundations in the inner circle are built
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up by suit until the last card corresponds to the its position on
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the clock (i.e. the Q<img src="../images/s.gif" /> should be built
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up to 7<img src="../images/s.gif" />, for instance). Building is
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also continuous, with Aces placed over Kings in the inner circle
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and vice versa in the outer circle.</p>
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<p>It should be noted that the minimum number of cards in each pile
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in the outer circle is three. A pile containing less than three
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cards is said to have gaps; an empty pile has three "gaps," a pile
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having one card has two "gaps," and a pile with two cards has one
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"gap." As cards are built, "gaps" are formed and the only way these
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are "filled" is by dealing cards from the stock. Building on a pile
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having cards less than three is like "filling a gap" from the
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tableau and is therefore not allowed.</p>
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<p>It is the player's discretion when to fill the "gaps," but when
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the player decides to do so, one has to fill all "gaps," i. e.
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replenish all piles with less than three cards so each of them
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contains three cards once again. For example, two piles are empty,
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one pile has one card left, and two piles have two cards left. So
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the player has to fill a total of 10 gaps. He does this by dealing
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cards one card per pile at a time clockwise starting from the pile
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above the "12 o' clock" foundation. No building is done until this
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process is complete. The player can do this as long as there are
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"gaps."</p>
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<p>Sometimes, the player cannot make any moves even when all piles
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contain three cards each. So the player can deal cards from the
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stock one at a time. Cards that cannot be built either onto the
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inner or outer circles are placed on the wastepile (as a
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suggestion, one can place the wastepile at the center of the inner
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circle for convenience). Again, cards at the wastepile cannot be
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used to fill "gaps." But once the stock is exhausted, there are no
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redeals; the game ends sooner after this or later.</p>
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<p>The game is successfully won when all foundations show cards
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corresponding to their positions in the clock (J<img src=
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"../images/s.gif" /> on "11 o' clock," Q<img src=
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"../images/d.gif" /> on "12 o' clock," A<img src=
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"../images/c.gif" /> on "1 o' clock," and so on.)</p>
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<p><i>(Retrieved from <a href=
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben_%28solitaire%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben_(solitaire)</a>)</i></p>
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