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<h1>Gate</h1>
<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
<p>Gate is a solitaire card game which is playing using a deck of
52 playing cards. It is called such because the cards are laid own
in such a way that they form a gate.</p>
<p>First, two columns of five cards are laid out face-up with their
faces showing. These act as the reserve or "gate posts." Then,
between these columns, two rows of four cards are dealt, again
face-up. These compose the "rails" or the tableau. The spaces for
the foundations are allotted over the first row of cards.</p>
<p>The object of the game, like solitaire games, is to find the
aces, place then onto the foundations, and build each of them up by
suit to kings.</p>
<p>The cards in the rails are available for play, to be placed on
the foundations or onto other cards in the rail. The cards in the
rails are built down by alternating color (a card with a red suit
over a one with a black suit, and vice versa). Spaces in the rails
are filled using cards from the gate posts. If the cards in the
gate posts are used up, the top card of the wastepile, or the next
card in the stock if there is no wastepile, can be used to fill
spaces. The gate posts are never replenished.</p>
<p>Generally, one card can be moved at a time. The most prevalent
rule regarding moves of sequences is that sequences can be moved as
a whole. However, there is a rule set which does not allow moving
groups of cards, effectively making the game harder (mentioned in
<i>Card Games Made Easy</i> by Marks and Harrod, ISBN
1-899606-17-3).</p>
<p>The stock can be dealt one card at a time to a wastepile. The
top card of which is available for play, either to placed in on the
foundations or on the rails, or to fill a gap on the rails.
However, once the stock runs out, there are no redeals.</p>
<p>The game ends soon after the stock runs out. The game is won
when all cards are played to the foundations.</p>
<p><i>(Retrieved from <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_%28solitaire%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_(solitaire)</a>)</i></p>
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