How to Play Different Styles of Solitaire for Kids
Teaching various games of solitaire to children gives them an opportunity to practice number skills while providing them something to fill those lonely "nobody to play with" hours. Although older children can easily learn almost any kind of solitaire, the following games are simple enough for younger children but challenging enough to keep them engaged. Odds Out, Eight Stacks, and Pairs in the Middle, Suits on the Ends are all games that kids will learn quickly, play repeatedly and enjoy teaching to their friends.
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Instructions
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Teach the Game of Odds Out
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Remove the jacks, kings, queens and aces from the deck. Shuffle the remaining cards.
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Turn the deck over so the cards are all face down. Turn up one card in front of you. Note: Suits are irrelevant in this game.
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Turn up another card and put it next to the first card. Add the two numbers. If the total is an odd number, put them in a pile to your left; if the number is even, put them in a pile to your right.
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Repeat Steps 2 and 3. Continue going through the deck. When the deck has been exhausted, reshuffle the cards on your right (the evens) and start over.
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Win the game by going through the pile on the right three times, shuffling each time, trying to end up with no cards in the pile to your right.
Explain the Fun of the Solitaire Game Called Eight Stacks
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Remove all 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's and 6's from the deck. Shuffle.
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Deal eight cards in a row, face down. Continue dealing, adding cards face down to each stack until you have eight piles of four cards each.
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Flip the piles over, making sure they are squared up so that only the top card shows in each pile.
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Remove any pairs. Continue removing pairs until there are no pairs remaining. Win the game if all the cards are removed.
Show Kids the Game of Pairs in the Middle, Suits on the Ends
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Shuffle the entire deck and deal out four cards face up.
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Remove cards as follows: If you have a pair in the middle of the four cards, you may remove them. If the first card and the fourth card are the same suit, you remove the two middle cards. If all four cards are the same suit, remove all four cards.
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Add another card to the right end of your row. If it is the same suit as the fourth card to the left, remove the two middle cards. If you paired up in the middle, you can remove the two middle cards. And if all four cards are in the same suit, remove all four cards.
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Continue adding cards as in Step 3, looking for both of the following: cards with matching suits with two cards between them and pairs in the middle of four cards. Remember to also look for four cards in a row of the same suit.
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Win the game if you are left with no cards.
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Tips & Warnings
Teach kids one solitaire game at a time. Wait to teach a second game until they are totally adept at playing the first one.
