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<h1>Zodiac</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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<p>Zodiac is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks
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of playing cards shuffled together. It is an old game which first
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appeared in Lady Adelaide Cadogan's book <i>Illustrated Games of
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Patience</i> is so-named probably because of its "globe"-shaped
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layout.</p>
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<p>First, eight cards are deal in a row. They form the cells which
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make up the reserve, or the "Equator". Each reserve cell can only
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hold one card. Then twenty four cards are dealt in a circle
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surrounding the Equator to form the tableau, or the "Zodiac."</p>
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<p>The game is divided into two phases: the first phases consists
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of playing the rest of the cards into the Zodiac and the Equator;
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the second phase is the building of the cards into the
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foundations.</p>
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<p>In the first phase of the game, the cards in the Zodiac are
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built up or down by suit; the build can change direction in the
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same pile. However, the cards in Zodiac cannot be touched until the
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second phase. This means that until the second phase starts, the
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cards in the Zodiac cannot be used to build on each other. Also,
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any card build on a pile in the Zodiac stays there until the start
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of the second phase.</p>
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<p>The cards on the Equator are used to build on the cards on the
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Zodiac. The space in the Equator can be filled with an available
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card from the stock or the top card of the wastepile. However,
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filling a space is not compulsory, i.e. a player can leave a space
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open for as long as the player finds it advantageous.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, the stock is dealt one card at a time, and unplayable
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cards are placed on a wastepile, the top card of which is available
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to be built on a pile in the Zodiac or to fill a space on the
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Equator. Once the stock runs out, the player can just pick up the
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remaining cards in the wastepile and turn it face down to make it
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the new stock. The player can do this as many times as he wants as
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long as there still more cards neither in the Zodiac nor in the
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Equator.</p>
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<p>Only when all cards are both in the Zodiac and in the Equator,
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the second phase begins. The cards in the Zodiac and Equator are
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built straight to the foundations. The foundations are built up by
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suit from Aces to Kings. The game is won when all the cards are
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built on the foundations.</p>
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<p>At any point in the game, when it becomes stuck, i.e. the cards
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in the stock/wastepile cannot be built without blocking other cards
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during the first phase, or encountering a block during the second
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phase, the game is lost.</p>
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<p>Obviously the player must have great care and consideration in
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building the cards in the Zodiac in order for the game to be won.
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Also, the layout of the game is large when played with
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standard-sized playing cards. So, as a suggestion, the player can
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just deal eight cards for the Equator and twenty-four cards for the
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Zodiac to save space.</p>
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<p><i>(Retrieved from <a href=
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_%28solitaire%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_(solitaire)</a>)</i></p>
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