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The solitaire game Forty Thieves uses 2 decks of cards. Ten piles of 4 cards are dealt face up. Cards are moved one by one from pile to pile in an attempt to get them in order by suit ace through king on the foundation piles.
Unfortunately, there are hundreds of different kinds of solitaire games. If you tell us the name of the particular solitaire game, we could help more. The basic game that you get free on your computer sometimes (not Spider Solitaire, but the older one called Solitaire) is a game where you try to line up all the cards, black on red, in descending order, and eventually move them all to piles (by suit starting with the aces). There are options about whether you want to draw one or three, and difficulties with either choice. With draw three, it is important to see the second and third cards before you go through the pile three times (when the game ends), and with either option it is a major challenge to get access to the cards that are face-down. To do this, you have to move one of the face up cards on the top of the face-down card to another pile (so, a black Jack to a red Queen or a red 4 to a black 5 for instance). Hope that was the one you were asking about, but if not, check for rules specific to the name online, or ask another question here giving more of a description.
Spider Solitaire website ( http://www.solitaire-spider.com ) allows to download a free collection of 5 Spider Solitaire variations, including: Coleopter, Simple Simon, Spider, Spider One Suit, Spider Two Suits.
Let x = third pile First Pile = 2x + 10 Second Pile = 2x Third Pile = x (2x+10) + (2x) + (x) = 3000 2x + x + 2x + 10 = 3000 5x + 10 = 3000 5x = 3000 - 10 5x = 2990 x = 2990/5 x = 598 Therefore there are 598 books in the third pile. I'm sure you can figure out how to get how many books are in all other piles.
Spider is usually played with two standard decks of playing cards, but the game is very difficult that way. Spider One Suit and Two Suit game variations exist that still use 104 cards, but only use the Spades in the one suit game and Spades and Hearts in the two suit game.
The purpose of an empty pile (free cell) is so that cards can be reorganized more easily. Switching cards to the empty cell as an intermediate step opens the game up a lot, in a lot of Solitaire games, including the one called "Freecell." There are hundreds of kinds of solitaire though, and in some games the empty piles can't used anymore, or the empty piles can only be filled by specific cards, which limits the advantage of having those blank spaces.
The following is a list of some different versions of solitaire: Klondike Solitaire, Pyramid Solitaire, Canfield Solitaire, Golf Solitaire, Yukon Solitaire, Poker Solitaire, Baker's Dozen Solitaire, Good Measure Solitaire, Little Spider Solitaire and Accordion Solitaire
for spider solitaire (it depends on the level), you are trying to get cards from King to Ace of the same suit. once you put them together, they make piles at the bottom of the screen and you have to make 8 of those to win. for normal solitaire, you are trying to get the suits to (somewhat intertwin) or go opposite like red, black, red, black and also drag them up to their own suits. SS - you just put them in their proper pile anywhere NS - you are intertwining them as well as dragging them up into their proper suits.
76 fist pile, 100 second pil, 200 in the third pile
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