Virginia Reel is a patience or card solitaire game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards mixed together. The object of the game is to place all the cards in the 24 foundations. It was created by Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith as an improvement on the older game of Royal Parade .
7-452: Virginia Reel can refer to any of the following: Virginia Reel (solitaire) , a solitaire card game Virginia reel (dance) , a folk dance Virginia Reel roller coaster , a type of roller coaster Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Virginia Reel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
14-453: A 3, and a 4, are placed vertically, and beside each of these three cards a row of seven cards is laid out. The first row is known as the "2s' row," the second row the "3s' row," and the third row the "4s' row," with the first card indicating the rank of all the foundations in that row. A fourth row of eight cards is dealt beneath this, and serves as the reserve. The foundations are built up by suit in intervals of three, as illustrated in
21-509: The 2s' row, a 2 must be available to replace it. The game is considered won when all the cards are in foundations, with all face cards on top. Royal Parade is played much the same way as Virginia Reel, and is a classic two-deck game with alternative names Financier, Hussars, and Three Up. It is the original game on which Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith based Virginia Reel, which they created as an improvement on Royal Parade. One difference between Royal Parade and Virginia Reel
28-403: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virginia_Reel&oldid=264088689 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Virginia Reel (solitaire) First three cards, a 2,
35-410: The reserve are in play and can be placed on the foundations, or be placed on a row (if it is a 2, 3, or 4). Empty spaces in the reserve are not filled until eight new cards are dealt when no more moves are possible. Aces play no part in this game, and aces in the reserve are immediately discarded. An ace in any of the rows must be replaced by any applicable card for that row, e.g. to discard an ace from
42-414: The reserve. This is especially true at the beginning of the game, where some cards are on each other's rows like a 4 in the 3s' row and a 3 in the 4s' row; a special rule allows exchanging cards to their rightful rows in this case. While the first card in each row is already a foundation in itself and it can be built on, once a card ends up in its proper row it becomes a foundation itself. The top cards in
49-409: The table below. To play, a card can be moved to a foundation or to a rightful row from the other rows or from the reserve. When a card is moved from anywhere in the tableau, the gap it leaves behind must be filled with a card appropriate for the row where the gap is located. For instance, when a card has left the 2s' row, the gap it left behind must be filled with a 2, either from the other rows or from
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