The Beleaguered Castle is a one-deck patience. The game is begun by dealing all cards to the tableau arranged as 8 stacks of 6 cards each. Aces are dealt to the foundations.
The object of the game is to build up in suit from Aces to Kings all four foundation piles.
You can build tableau columns down regardless of suit. Only the top card of a pile is available to play.
In Figure, to free 2
, you can move Q
onto K
and then move 4
onto 5.
Empty spaces in the tableau can be filled with any card.