Travellers, also known as All Fours, Clock, Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Hunt, Sundial or Watch is a card game of the patience genre which uses a single card pack of either 52 or 32 playing cards. Parlett notes that the game has a "rhythmical feature that might be called 'shuttling'", as in the game of Weavers.[1]
Description
Twelve piles of 4 cards each are laid out on the table, face up, and a further talon of four cards, face down. The piles are named, in order, the Ace pile, the Queens pile and so on, down to the Twos. The aim is to end with thirteen piles of four, each pile consisting of cards of the same rank as the name of the pile. The top card of the talon is flipped and placed at the bottom of its corresponding named pile. The top card of that pile is taken and placed under its named pile and so on. If the top card is a King, it is placed in a separate Kings pile.[1]
Variations
Sometimes the piles are laid out in the shape of a clock, hence some of the alternative names. Sometimes, a player can replace the final king with a facedown card to keep going and the game ends if the fourth king reappears[1] In a German variant called Hide-and-Seek (Versteckenspiel), there are 13 piles from Ace to Two, laid out face-down this time in a row of seven and a row of six. The first pickup is from the Ace pile; thereafter shuttling takes place as described above.[2]
