If you like to keep score on incomplete games, count the number of cards left in the stockpile once you’ve run out of moves, and the lower the number of cards left, the better. Repeat as necessary, cycling through the stockpile in threes until you’ve either run out of moves, or you’ve sorted all of the cards into their piles and won the game!

Place these onto their appropriate pile, and again immediately replace any empty spaces you create with the top face-down card from the stockpile. Once you’ve exhausted all of the moves available to you from the set up, now you can start with the cards in the stockpile, pulling them three at a time, like in traditional solitaire. When you place a card onto another pile, pull the top face down card from the stockpile into the empty space and continue. Once you’ve dealt the cards out into the rows it’ll look like a mess in front of you, but now you can start stacking by suit from anywhere. A game of Devil’s Gripįor those you who like or need a visual aid, here’s a very helpful tutorial. These look arbitrary upon reading the rules, but they make sense visually on a grid: twos in the top row, threes in the middle, fours on the bottom row, then they’re topped by fives on the top, sixes in the middle, and so on.

and the bottom row will be piles of 4, 7, 10, and King.

the middle row will be piles of 3, 6, 9, and Queen,.

the top row will be eight piles consisting of 2, 5, 8, and Jack,.

The aim of the game is to stack the cards according to suit and into piles of specific values: Shuffle them together and deal out three rows of eight, face-up, and consolidate the rest for a stock pile which is set aside. This solitaire variant is a unique single player card stacking game requiring two decks of cards with the aces removed from play (total of 96 cards).

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Solitaire set up