Instructions for Solitaire Frenzy
The solitaire card game Klondike becomes a multiplayer game in Solitaire Frenzy by Jax Ltd. Each player uses her own deck of standard playing cards, and the game includes six decks with backings of different colors to help distinguish the cards. The players race to earn as many points as possible while trying to be the first person to put all of the cards from their stock pile into play.
Instructions
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Give one complete deck of cards to each player. Remove all of the jokers and shuffle each deck separately.
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Deal 13 cards to a face-down stock pile, then flip over the top card. Deal four cards from your deck face-up into separate building piles in front of you. Hold the rest of your deck in your hand.
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Wait for all of the players to set up their cards as described in Step 2 and indicate that they're ready to play. Say "Go" to start the round.
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Play cards from your stock pile, building piles or discard pile to the center of the table in foundation piles arranged by suit and in sequence, starting with the ace and ascending to the king. Use these piles communally with the other players. Flip over the next card from your stock pile each time you use the top face-up card.
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Play cards to your four building piles in alternating colors and descending order; for example, play a four of hearts on top of a five of clubs.
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Take the top three cards from your deck and flip them face-up into a discard pile. Play the top card from your discard pile to either a foundation pile or a building pile. Cycle through the deck, then pick up the discard pile and flip it face-down without altering the arrangement of the cards. Cycle through the deck again as needed.
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Combine two building piles according to the rules in Step 6 to open up a free space. Create a new building pile with the top card from either the stock pile or your discard pile.
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Continue the round until one player has used all 13 cards from his stock pile or all of the players are unable to make any additional moves.
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Separate the cards played to the foundation piles at the center of the table by deck. Count the number of cards played to those piles by each person, then deduct the number of cards remaining in each person's stock pile from her score. Record the totals on the score sheet.
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Play three full rounds of Solitaire Frenzy. The person with the highest score wins the game.
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