HOW TO DEAL Start with two fifty-two-card decks (104 cards total), and deal eight cards face up. These are your tableau and foundation piles—in German Patience there is no distinction.This game (originally from Bavaria) is childishly simple to play and fiendishly difficult to win (the odds of doing so are 1 in every 50 hands). Luck plays almost no role. Instead you need skill, stamina, and more than a little patience.
HOW TO DEAL Start with two fifty-two-card decks (104 cards total), and deal eight cards face up. These are your tableau and foundation piles—in German Patience there is no distinction.
WINNING Build the eight tableau/foundation piles in ascending rank (suit and color do not matter) so that each pile contains thirteen cards total. This game allows continuous ranking.
HOW TO PLAY Suit and color do not matter in German Patience, only a card’s rank (so you may build any eight on any seven, any seven on any six, etc.). Move cards one at a time, never in groups or sets. When you have no moves left, turn up the topmost stock card and play it to either the tableau/foundation or to the waste pile. The topmost waste card may be played at any time.
There is no redeal in German Patience, which makes it a very difficult game to win.