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Australian Patience

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Australian Patience is a patience or card solitaire using one deck of playing cards. This game is a challenging combination of Klondike and Scorpion, and is also closely related to Yukon. The object of the game is to move all of the cards to the Foundations.[1]

Rules

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Australian Patience has four Foundations build up in suit from Ace to King, e.g. A♣, 2♣, 3♣, 4♣...

The seven depots of the Tableau are filled with piles of four cards each, which build down in suit, e.g. 8, 7, 6, 5...

Like Yukon, any face-up card can be moved, but all the unrelated cards on top of it will be moved also. Only a King (with or without a pile) can be moved to an empty space.

Only one card is turned up at a time from the Deck, and these cards can be played onto the depots or the Foundations. Australian Patience only allows one pass through the deck.

Variations

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Due to dependence on luck of the draw, only about 20% of games can be won. Several variations increase the chances of completing the game successfully by introducing rules to allow a single redeal of the stock (Canberra), unlimited redeals (Tasmanian Solitaire), or a different starting tableau (Brisbane).

Australian Patience can be played as a race game for two players.[2]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Australian Patience Solitaire Rules, Solitaire Central, Accessed 14 October 2020
  2. ^ Card Games: Competitive Patience at pagat.com. Retrieved 25 April 2022.