Rules for Indian Patience
Introduction

System Requirements

Registration
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Features
Autoplay to Foundations
Speed/Status Bar
Game Options
Common Shortcuts for all Games
Smart-Dragging
Game Statistics

How do I...?
Undo/Redo a Move or an Autoplay
Move a Card to a Foundation
Start a New Game
Select a Specific Game/Deal
Restart a Game
Change the Card Back
Change the Card Appearance
Change the Card Spacing
Change the Game Background
Enable/Disable Sounds
Other Miscellaneous Options

Game Rules
Aces Up
Australian Patience
Baker's Dozen
Baker's Game
Beleaguered Castle
Canfield
Double Klondike
Double Scorpion
Double Yukon
Eight Off
Flower Garden
Forty Thieves
FreeCell
Giza
Golf
Indian Patience
Klondike
La Belle Lucie
Montana
Nestor
Pyramid
Pyramid Golf
Queen of Italy
Russian Solitaire
Scorpion
Scorpion II
Sea Towers
Simple Simon
Spider
Yukon

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Indian Patience is similar to Forty Thieves, but with some interesting variations. Other similar games in Snood Solitaire include Queen of Italy.

Layout

  • A tableau of thirty cards, ten columns each containing three cards.
  • All cards are face up initially except for the bottom card of each tableau pile, which is face down.

Play

Stock

  • Turn up cards from the stock one at a time, leaving unplayable cards in a single wastepile.
  • The top card of the wastepile is always available for play on foundations or tableau.
  • The stock is not recycled.

Protected Cards

  • When a face down card is exposed in the tableau, the card will be turned up and become a "protected" card.
  • Protected cards may only be moved to a foundation.
  • When a protected card is moved to a foundation, the empty space will be filled from the stock with one face down card and two more face up (for as long as the stock contains enough cards to do so).

Foundations

  • Move the eight Aces to the row below the tableau as they are made available.
  • Build the foundations in ascending suit sequence from Ace to King.

To Win

  • Move all the cards to the foundations.

Grace

  • When the stock is exhausted, then all "protected" cards become free for use in the usual way. There is no recycle of the stock during a game.

Scoring: One point for each card moved to a foundation. Maximum score is 104.

Chance of Winning: Estimated at 2 in 3 games if you are patient.

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About the game panel artwork: "Sitting Bull" Tatanka Iyotake portrait © 1996 Mr. Oscar C. Castro. Used by permission. Please see more of Mr. Castro's interesting art at http://www.horseweb.com/client/portraits/hw_sit.htm.

 

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