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House in the Woods (also known as House in the Wood [1]) is a patience game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards. The game is basically a two-deck version of La Belle Lucie , but it borrows two things from its cousin Shamrocks , namely the building of cards up or down and the fact that there are no redeals.
The cards on the two columns to the left and right of the foundations are available for play and a card can built onto a foundation or to another card on the tableau (the two columns). Building on the tableau is down regardless of suit and any space is filled either by the top card of the stock or the top card of the wastepile. Cards are moved ...
[16] [17] The gambler would then play a game of solitaire and earn $5 for every card they managed to place into the foundations; if a player was fortunate enough to place all 52 cards into the foundations, the player would win $2,600. On average players made a loss of about five to six cards per game.
First published by Dick in 1883 as The Baker's Dozen, the rules have changed little since. The only exception is that, in Dick's description, the thirteen packets are dealt face down and only the top card is turned. Only when the exposed top cards are moved to the foundations or other depots, may the next card be turned over.
The rule of the game are as follows: A gap is filled by a card that is the same suit and a rank higher than the card on the gap's left or one that is the same suit and a rank lower than the card on the gap's right, whichever is more advantageous.
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House in the Woods is a solitaire card game. House in the Woods may also refer to: "House in the Woods," a song by Tom Petty from his 1994 album Wildflowers; Huis ten Bosch palace in the Netherlands, translated and anglicized as "House in the Woods" House in the Woods, a 2025 album by Low Roar
Musical is a related game in which cards are played from the stock to a single pile, but in which the stock contains 44 cards rather than 48, and in which the stock can be dealt three times. One234 is a Calculation style game with completely open information but a low probability of success; it begins with a tableau of 8 columns with 6 cards ...