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- - Welcome to Blue Moon -
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- Blue Moon is a solitaire or patience game played with a full 52 card deck.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Your aim is to end up with the four rows reading Ace to King in sequence.
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- 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.
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- A good score is 1 to 3 deals, 4 to 7 is average, 8 or more is poor.
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