Diplomat
Number of decks: 2
Playing time per game: More than 10 minutes.
Requires skill or chance: Medium skill required.
Rules complexity: Medium complexity of the rules. Odds of winning: Usually.Aim of the game
- Build all the cards on the foundations from Ace to King in suit.
Initial setup
- Deal eight piles with four cards in each pile.
- The cards must be face up and overlapping.
How to play
- The top card of each pile can be moved to the foundations.
- Once you have done this, start building down regardless of suit, among the exposed cards of the layout.
- Deal the cards, one by one, from the stock to a waste pile.
- The card on top of the waste pile is available to be played either to the foundations or to the tableau.
- When you create a gap in the layout, the gap can be filled with any available card.
- You may not shuffle the stockpile.