Rules for Beleaguered Castle
Introduction

System Requirements

Registration
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License Agreement

Features
Autoplay to Foundations
Speed/Status Bar
Game Options
Common Shortcuts for all Games
Smart-Dragging
Game Statistics

How do I...?
Undo/Redo a Move or an Autoplay
Move a Card to a Foundation
Start a New Game
Select a Specific Game/Deal
Restart a Game
Change the Card Back
Change the Card Appearance
Change the Card Spacing
Change the Game Background
Enable/Disable Sounds
Other Miscellaneous Options

Game Rules
Aces Up
Australian Patience
Baker's Dozen
Baker's Game
Beleaguered Castle
Canfield
Double Klondike
Double Scorpion
Double Yukon
Eight Off
Flower Garden
Forty Thieves
FreeCell
Giza
Golf
Indian Patience
Klondike
La Belle Lucie
Montana
Nestor
Pyramid
Pyramid Golf
Queen of Italy
Russian Solitaire
Scorpion
Scorpion II
Sea Towers
Simple Simon
Spider
Yukon

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Also known as Sham Battle and Laying Siege. Similar games in Snood Solitaire include La Belle Lucie.

Layout

  • A tableau of forty-eight cards, in eight horizontal piles each containing six cards.
  • The Aces are removed after shuffling, and one Ace is placed in each of the four foundations arranged in the center of the tableau.

Play

  • The top cards of the tableau piles are available for play on foundations or other tableau piles.
  • Only one card at a time may be moved.
  • Build tableau piles down in value (any suit).
  • A space made by clearing a pile may be filled by any available card from the tableau.

Foundations

To Win

  • Move all the cards to the foundations.

Strategy: Survey the tableau and identify the pile that has the best chance of being cleared. Work toward clearing away one or two piles as soon as possible. It is sometimes necessary to delay moving cards to the foundations in order to make use of the cards in builds necessary to clear a tableau pile. The game is difficult to win if at least one tableau pile cannot be cleared early in the game.

Scoring: One point for each card moved to a foundation. Maximum score is 52.

Chance of Winning: 1 in 3 games.

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