Waning Moon (solitaire)
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Waning Moon is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards. The name comes from the tableau that resembles a crescent moon and the fact that it "wanes" as more cards are played in the foundation.
To start, thirteen piles of three cards are dealt, forming a semicircle. This would be the tableau pile. During this deal, any aces are placed on the foundation row and when an aces gets dealt to the foundation, the next card is dealt on the pile where that ace should be. After the deal is over, the other aces will go along on the foundations, each built up by suit to kings.
The top cards of each tableau pile are available for play, to be built on the foundations or on other tableau piles. The cards in the tableau are built down by suit. Only one card can be moved at a time[1]. When a gap occurs as a result of having all of a pile moved, it can be filled with any available card, whether it is the top card of a tableau pile, or the top card of the waste pile. Solsuite's version also allows a packed sequence to be used to fill a gap.[2]
The player can also deal cards from the stock one at a time onto a wastepile. The top card of the wastepile can be used in building in the foundations or on the tableau. The stock can be dealt only once.
The game ends soon after the stock is depleted. The game is won when all cards are built on the foundations and the "moon has waned," so to speak.
- See also: solitaire terminology
