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