Fourteens

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1 Deck.  Very Hard (<1%).  Mostly Luck.

 

Object

To discard all the cards in pairs.

 

Layout

25 Piles arranged in a 5x5 square - discard pairs of cards that add to 14, if they are in the same row or column.  For example, a King and an Ace, a Queen and a 2, or an 8 and a 6.  To remove a pair, click one of the cards to highlight it and then click the other.  Spaces are filled automatically from the stock.  At the start of the game 1 card is dealt to each pile.

 

stock (far right, face down) - fills spaces in the piles automatically.

 

Fill (redeal) symbol - when all available pairs have been discarded and the stock is empty, clicking this symbol fills spaces from left to right in the top row with cards taken from right to left from the bottom row.

 

Notes

Cards that pair to 14: King-Ace, Queen-2, Jack-3, 10-4, 9-5, 8-6, 7-7.

 

History

Fourteens is a pair-elimination game similar to Monte Carlo.

 

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