How to Play Eleven O'clock Solitaire

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Antonia Hoyland on behalf of Expert Village. This game is called 11 o'clock. The layout for 11 o'clock is pretty fun. It uses a regular deck of 52 cards without jokers. The reason that the layout is fun, is because it forms a circle. As the name implies, 11 o'clock, you're trying to make it look like a clock with twelve cards forming the tableau. So, go ahead and shuffle your cards and lay them out in a circle, like a clock with twelve cards. These cards are all face up. If any face cards show up in this initial deal, go ahead and replace them with other cards and put the face cards back into your deck, at random. In this game, we're looking at only the values of the cards, not the suites. The values go as follows: ace equals one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten all equal what you would expect them to equal, and the face cards are nothing -- nothing at all. They're not zero, they're nothing. The play is fairly simple in this game. Look for pairs of cards that total. When you find one of these pairs, you deal cards from your stockpile to cover them up. The face cards are the monkey wrench of this game because they form blocks in the game. Once you put a face card down, nothing else can go on top of it, and so your field of values goes down less and less. If at any time there are only two cards of value left on the table out of the whole twelve, you're allowed to put any face cards that show up on the bottom of the pack. If you want the game to be a little bit more mindless, you can always remove all of the face cards from the deck at the very beginning of the game, so that it goes really quick, and you always win."