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