Precedence is a
patience or card solitaire
Patience (Europe), card solitaire, or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are in ...
game which uses two packs of
playing card
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s. It is a building game where the playing does not have to worry about a tableau or playing area.
Names
Precedence goes by various other names including Order of Precedence, Panama and Downing Street.
[Lee, Sloane & Packard, Gabriel. ''100 Best Solitaire Games: 100 Ways to Entertain Yourself with a Deck of Cards.'' ; New York, N. Y.: Cardoza Publishing, 2004. ()] A variant is known as Legitimist.
[Parlett (1990), p. 41.]
Rules
At the start of the game, a king is removed from the rest of the pack and placed on the first of eight
foundations
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* Foundation (cosmetics), a skin-coloured makeup cream applied to the face
* Foundation (engineering), the element of a structure which connects it to the ground, and transfers loads f ...
. Some rule sets state that as the cards are
dealt, the first King that becomes available is placed on the first foundation.
After that, the following cards must be placed on the next seven foundations: a queen, a jack, a 10, a 9, an 8, a 7, and a 6. These cards should be placed on their respective foundations in this order and a foundation should not start until the foundation to its immediate left does. So the fourth foundation (which starts with a 10) for instance should not start unless the third one (which starts with a jack) is already in place. Also, when one foundation has already been started, it can immediately be
built down regardless of
suit
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until it has thirteen cards. (It is suggested that it should overlap to keep track on which card should end each foundation.) In this game, building is
round-the-corner, i.e. a King can be placed over an ace, which can be placed over a deuce (or 2).
To play the game, the
stock
Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the Share (finance), shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided. A single share of the stock means fractional ownership of the corporatio ...
, which is composed of all the other cards, is dealt one card a time and can be built immediately on the foundations or placed on the
waste pile, the top card of which is
available
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* The degree to which a system, subsystem or equipment is in a specified operable and committable state at the start of a mission, when the mission is called for at a ...
for
play
Play most commonly refers to:
* Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment
* Play (theatre), a work of drama
Play may refer also to:
Computers and technology
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* Play Framework, a Java framework
* P ...
.
Once the stock has run out, the player can form a new stock by picking up the waste pile and turning it face down. The new stock is then dealt as normal. The player is allowed to do this only twice in the entire game.
The game ends when the stock has run out a third time. The game is
out
Out or OUT may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
*Out (1957 film), ''Out'' (1957 film), a documentary short about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
*Out (1982 film), ''Out'' (1982 film), an American film directed by Eli Hollander
*O ...
when all cards are built onto the foundations.
See also
*
List of patiences and card solitaires
This is a list of patiences, which are card games that are also referred to as solitaires or as card solitaire.
This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but only includes games that have met the usual Wikipedia requirements (e.g. notability) ...
*
Glossary of patience and card solitaire terms
Games of patience, or (card) solitaires as they are usually called in North America, have their own 'language' of specialised terms such as "building down", "packing", "foundations", "talon" and "tableau". Once learnt they are helpful in de ...
References
Bibliography
*
Parlett, David
David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. He is the president of the British Skat Association.
Life
David Sidney Parlett was bo ...
(1990). ''The Penguin Book of Patience''. London, New York: Penguin.
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Double-deck patience card games
Simple builders