Double Nestor — Rules
layout
- Two decks, 104 cards
- Tableau piles: 10
- Free cells: 4
- No stock — all cards are dealt at the start
- Remove pairs of cards of equal rank
goal & play
goal
Clear the whole table by removing pairs of equal rank: two sixes, two jacks, two queens — suits do not matter.
Two decks, 104 cards, are dealt face up: ten columns of ten cards plus four single cards on the side. In play are the top card of every column and any of the four side cards — everything else is covered for now. Tap a card to highlight all its possible partners, then tap one of them to remove the pair from the table. A removed pair goes into the basket and never comes back. As soon as the top card of a column disappears, the next one underneath is revealed. There is no stock here — every move has to come from what you can already see.
nuances
The same rank can turn up twice in one column — the upper card then blocks the lower one, and only the neighbouring columns can free it. That is part of the game, not a flaw in the deal.
tactics
Each rank appears on the table exactly 8 times, so a partner will almost always turn up — watch depth rather than pairs. If matching cards are buried deep in two different columns, dig both in parallel instead of one after the other.
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