Aces Up

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Aces Up is also another name for Easthaven, a variant of Klondike.

Aces Up (also known as Idiot's Delight, Once in a Lifetime, Ace of the Pile, Rocket to the Top, Firing Squad, and Loser Solitaire) is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. One advantage this game has is the minimal use of space; one can even play this game on an area as small as an encyclopedia volume cover.

[edit] Rules

The game starts with four cards dealt on a table, and follows in this way:

1. If there are two or more visible cards of the same suit, all but the highest-ranked card of that suit are discarded.
2. Repeat step 1 until there are no pairs of visible cards with the same suit.
3. If there are any empty spaces, you may choose the top card of another pile to be put into the empty space. If you do this, go to step 1.
4. Deal one card from the deck face-up onto each pile. If fewer than four cards are left in the deck, deal as many as are available. If there are no cards left in the deck, the game is over. Otherwise, go to step 1.

When the game ends, the number of discarded cards is your score. The maximum score (and thus the score necessary to win) is 48, which means all cards have been discarded except for the four aces, thus the name of the game.

[edit] Variations

A much more challenging variation on Aces Up allows only the aces to be moved onto an empty pile. This makes game play much more restrictive and consequently the game can only be completed roughly once in every 270 games^[1].

[edit] Notes

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