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Solitaire (Posted on 2012-10-02) Difficulty: 2 of 5
One card game within my solitaire suite uses two decks. Its tableau occupies 4 rows; by default the first row reads A through K. After drawing several cards the tableau might appear as:
A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K
_ _ 6 _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 _ _ K
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

1. With disregard to actual play, define just one rule* which would allow me to fill the tableau if the odds are in my favour.
2. Provide the content of the fourth row when the tableau is full.

*The rule may be conditional.

  Submitted by brianjn    
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In the actual play one card at a time is drawn from the top of the stockpile. It is placed in the tableau below any card of which it is a double, or if its value is double the tableau card decremented by 13,
ie, Tableau Card *2 = Drawn Card or
Tableau Card * 2 -13 = Drawn Card.

The final tableau row is:
8 3 J 6 A 9 4 Q 7 2 10 5 K

The game, Argos, appears in a recent Solsuite release (TreeCardGames).

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  Subject Author Date
re(2): Consistencybrianjn2012-10-09 03:40:59
re: ConsistencyLarry2012-10-08 14:37:19
Consistencybrianjn2012-10-06 21:07:41
No Subjectbrianjn2012-10-06 10:59:28
SolutionAnother very similar rule (spoiler)Larry2012-10-06 10:55:17
Some ThoughtsThis rule works (spoiler?)Steve Herman2012-10-04 01:17:20
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