In the tableau, building is down by suit, also aces can be built upon by kings. The foundations should be built up by suit up to kings, then aces. These are the bases for the tableau piles.
Then, ten cards, four above the foundations and three at each of the left and the right of the foundations, are dealt. Rules įirst, the eight two cards are separated from the deck and placed in two rows to form the foundations. Sources also vary as to whether no, one or two redeals are permitted. However most later rules, including Morehead and Mott-Smith (1949, 2001) and Parlett (1979) allow sequences or part-sequences, as well as single cards, to be transferred between depots. These early rules do not seem to allow sequences to be moved between depots in the tableau and they are followed in this regard by Coop (1939) and Moyse (1950). The game is first recorded by Professor Hoffmann in 1892 as The Twos and subsequently by Dick in 1898 as The Deuces. It belongs to a family of card games that includes Busy Aces, which is derived in turn from Napoleon at St Helena (aka Forty Thieves). It is so called because each foundation starts with a Deuce, or Two.
Deuces or Twos is a patience or card solitaire game of English origin which is played with two packs of playing cards.
