Aces Up Solitaire

Ein süchtig Solitär-Spiel, das nur dauert eine Minute zu lernen, aber Stunden zu lösen

Aces Up (aka Aces High, Down and Out, Four Aces, Idiot, Idiot's Delight, Once in a Lifetime, Ace of the Pile, Rocket to the Top, Firing Squad, Loser Solitaire, and Drivel) is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards.

Objective

To remove all cards from the tableau except four Aces.

How to play

• Discard the lower ranking card(s) of two or more cards of the same suit in the four exposed cards across the columns.

• Ace counts higher than King, values running A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Aces are not discarded.

• Keep discarding until the top cards are all of different suits, then deal the next four cards.

• Spaces may be filled with any available card.

• The game is won if only the four Aces remain in the tableau, one Ace in each column, and the remaining forty-eight lower ranking cards having been discarded.

Scoring

Aces Up starts at -32 points because the four Aces are not discarded from the layout at the end of the game and you win if you move all the cards to the foundation except the four Aces: 4 cards x 5 points = 20 points - 52 + 20 = - 32 points. The final score is 208, like any other one-deck games.