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<h1>General Rules</h1>
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There are some characteristics common to all the games in this package.
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Most of them are played with standard 52-card decks, either one or two. The
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cards in each suit are ranked King high. K stands for King, Q stands for
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Queen and J stands for Jack. In each game, the cards are piled up in either
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ascending or descending order, on stacks in the main playing area, called
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the Tableau, or piles off to the side, called Foundations. Some piles must
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be built up in sequence within the same suit, and others are built up in
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suits of alternating colors.
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The Talon is the stack of cards remaining in the deck, not yet played
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upon any of the piles, and not yet placed in the discard pile. Some people
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also call it the Stock or the Hand.
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The object of each of these games is to use up all the cards in
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building Foundations, or to use up all cards in the Talon according to the
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rules of the particular game. If all the cards are used up, you win. If
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not, you lose.
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In all of the games, you deal cards from the Talon to the discard pile
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by clicking once on the Talon with the left mouse button, or pressing <D>.
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Where permitted by the rules, you can turn over any face-down card with a
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single click of the left mouse button. You pick up and move a card by
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clicking on it and holding the button down while you drag it to its intended
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destination. If the move would violate the rules, the card will not go
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anywhere. If any card or cards can be put on a
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Foundation, or in the Ace discard pile of Picture Gallery, a single press of
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the <A> key will do all of them, a handy way to quickly finish certain
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games. Sometimes the <A> key will build up the Foundations more than you
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would like, and these rules allow you to put cards back into the Tableau
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from the Foundations. Of course, you can also use the Undo key <Z>.
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If you're confused by all this, just watch a demo game :-)
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