Rules for Links Solitaire

Description:

A pair-removal game by Thomas Warfield, distantly related to Golf. Your priority should be to clear the cards in the stock.

Cards:

One standard deck. Since suits don't matter, politaire substitutes a suitless deck of cards..

Goal:

Remove pairs of cards that add to thirteen. Kings can be removed singly. Thus, the list of legal pairs that can be removed is:

Ace-Queen, Two-Jack,Three-Ten, Four-Nine, Five-Eight, Six-Seven, or King

You win if you successfully remove all cards.

Tableau:

Seven tableau piles of cards, arranged as below, where "D" indicates a face-down card and "U" indicates a face-up card:

  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
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  U  U  U  U  U  U  U
  U  U  U  U  U  U  U
  U  U  U  U  U  U  U
  U  U  U  U  U  U  U
     U  U  U  U  U   

No building is permitted on the tableau

Cards on the tableau that are not under another card are available for play.

Empty spaces in the tableau may not be filled.

Stock and Waste:

The remaining cards form the stock and there is one waste pile.

Each time you click on the stock, one card will be dealt from the stock to the waste. Only one pass through the stock is permitted.

The top card of the waste is available for play.

Strategy:

Since cards from the waste can't be paired with each other, you have to be careful not to pair to many cards from the tableau with each other, least you run out of cards to pair waste cards with.

Similar Games:

Pyramid (Play) (Rules)

A classic pair-removal game with a triangular tableau.

Golf (Play) (Rules)

Build up or down on the single foundation to take cards off the tableau, where no building is allowed.

References:

Pretty Good Solitaire