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Amazons (card game)

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When no more cards can be played, four more cards are then dealt, face up, one to each depot, covering any cards already there. The player pauses again to see if any of the cards dealt can be placed on the foundations. Spaces are not filled until the next deal. This process is repeated until the
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runs out. When it does, a new one is formed by picking up each pile in turn, turning them face down and dealing again; this should be done without reshuffling. The process of dealing the cards, building to the foundations, and redealing, is repeated without limit until the game is won or
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Given the unlimited redeals, one of the best strategies for winning Amazons in as many as half the games played is to only play one Ace at a time rather than all of them initially, working on a single foundation at a time, and only playing another Ace when stuck despite redealing.
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that has its twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, and kings removed. This game is named after the female-led tribe, the Amazons, because the queen is the highest card, and all queens are displayed if the game is won.
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If an available card in the auxiliary row is immediately below the foundation of the same suit and is the next card in sequence, it is played onto that foundation pile. The order of placing is in
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Parlett specifies that the 'columns' are gathered up from left to right; Dick says "take the auxiliary packets up one upon the other in rotation from right to left".
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The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations, with the Queens at the top.
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Travellers (Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Hide & Seek, Spoilt, Wandering Card)
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Musical (Betsy Ross, Fairest, Four Kings, Plus Belle, Quadruple Alliance)
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Amazons is an old game, recorded as early as 1898 in the 2nd series of
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equivalent of the compulsive but frustrating game of
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Second series. 70 games. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald.
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Index

Amazons (solitaire)
Patience
Simple builder
Piquet pack
patience
card solitaire
playing cards
Piquet pack
standard 52-card pack
Piquet pack
Parlett
Puzzler
short pack
Auld Lang Syne
tableau
foundations
available
ascending sequence
talon
blocked
List of patiences and solitaires
Glossary of patience and solitaire terms
depot
grace





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