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- Welcome to Blue Moon -
Blue Moon is a solitaire or patience game played with a full 52 card deck.
After shuffling the deck thoroughly, deal the entire deck out face up,
into four rows of 13 cards. Find the Aces and move them to the left end of
the layout, so that each row begins with an Ace, reading Hearts, Spades,
Diamonds and Clubs from top to bottom.
Now play may proceed. You may move cards into the empty spaces, subject
to the proviso that you may only move into any space the card that is
exactly one higher in rank, and of the same suit, as the card to the left of
the space.
As Aces are low, Kings are high, and may not have any card moved into a
space to their right. Thus spaces to the right of Kings are considered to
be dead.
Your aim is to end up with the four rows reading Ace to King in sequence.
Since it is virtually impossible to get this out in one deal,this is not a
requirement of the game. Instead, at the end of the play, leaving those
cards that are in sequence from an Ace alone, gather up the rest of the cards
and reshuffle them. Deal the shuffled cards face up after the ends of the
partial sequences, leaving a card space after each sequence, so that each row
reads 'A partial sequence', 'A space', 'enough cards to make a row of 14',
then proceed to play as before. Repeat as often as necessary. A moment's
reflection will show you that this game cannot take more than 13 deals.
A good score is 1 to 3 deals, 4 to 7 is average, 8 or more is poor.