Rules
Canfield Solitaire, also know as Demon Patience is played with one deck of 52 cards.
First, deal thirteen cards face down into one pile and then turn the top card up. These cards form a reserve called the “demon”, the top card of which is available for play. The next card is dealt on the first of a row of four foundations to the right of the reserve. This card is the first foundation card or base card; the remaining three (currently empty) foundations must be started with a card of the same rank as the first foundation card. Finally, one card is dealt to each of four piles which form a row under the foundations. This is the tableau and the cards remaining in the hand form the stock.
Cards on the tableau are packed in descending order and alternating color, turning the corner from Ace to King if need be; while the foundations are built up in suit sequence, wrapping from King to Ace if necessary. Cards from the stock are dealt, in packets of three and face up, to a waste pile. After each packet of three is dealt, the top card of the waste pile is played to a foundation pile or the tableau if possible and in accordance with these rules. The top card of the reserve must be used whenever possible to fill any gaps on the tableau or build on a foundation; in case the reserve is used up, it may be filled from cards from the waste pile. Cards may be moved between tableau piles either individually or as a complete sequence, provided the entire column is moved.
One can make unlimited re-deals as long as there are moves.
The game is won when all cards are placed in the foundations.
Variants
Draw 1 - the cards from stock are dealt one at a time.
Relaxed - partial piles can be moved in the tableau.
Variants
- Canfield (draw 1, relaxed) — Partial piles can also be moved.
- Canfield (draw 3)
- Canfield (draw 3, relaxed)
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