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- **PYRAMID**
-
- The aim is to remove the Stock and display by twos, each combination counting
- thirteen. (Single pack).
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- 1 Lay out twenty-eight cards face up in the shape of a pyramid. Ie, one card
- comprises the top row, two cards comprise the second row, with both cards
- overlapping the bottom half of the first card, but not each other. Three cards
- comprise the third row which similarly overlap the cards in the second row.
- Continue laying overlapping rows of cards down to seven cards in row seven.
- The remaining cards form the Stock pile and are placed face up to one side.
-
- 2 Search the exposed - non-overlapped - cards (initially only those in row
- seven and the Stock pile) for pairs of cards which add up to thirteen,
- reckoning Queens as 12 and Jacks as 11. Any two that do total thirteen are
- removed from the board. Kings make thirteen on their own and may be removed
- when exposed.
-
- 3 When no more pairs can be found, deal the top card from the Stock and place
- it on one of the Discard piles. Repeat stage 2, but this time any exposed
- card on a Discard pile may be used as one of a pair totalling thirteen.
-
- 4 If the Stock pile becomes exhausted, the two Discard piles may be shuffled
- together and used again //once only //as the Stock pile. If you have failed to
- remove all the cards before the Stock pile becomes exhausted a second time,
- the game is lost.
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