Four Entire Packs of Cards
RULES
- All cards in the Army and Navy are equally available if played in pairs (i.e., one black and one red), but no card of either color can be played on a foundation unless a card of the other color is played at the same time on another foundation.
- Vacancies in the Army and Navy must be immediately refilled with cards of their own color from the talon, or, when there is no talon, from the pack.
- Cards from the pack or talon cannot be played at once, but must first pass through the Army or Navy.
- The talon consists of two packets, one of red, the other of black, cards.
- The foundations must follow suit.
PLAY
Withdraw from the pack the eight black aces and the eight black queens, the eight red kings, and the eight red knaves.
Place these cards as in the tableau, throwing aside the four queens of spades and three queens of clubs.
The remaining queen of clubs represents the Empress; the knaves, the guard of British soldiers, and these nine cards remain alone.
The eight black aces and the eight red kings are the foundation cards, the aces ascending in sequence to kings, representing Admirals, the kings descending in sequence to aces, representing Generals.
Note.—The red sequences must omit knaves, the black ones must omit queens.
Deal out four horizontal rows, each containing twelve cards, of which the two upper rows are to be red (the Army), the two lower ones black (the Navy).