Rules
Crazy Quilt Solitaire is played with two decks of 52 cards each.
First, one Ace and one King of each suit are taken out to form the foundations. The rest of the cards are shuffled, and 64 cards are dealt into eight rows of eight cards each. Each row should have its card alternately placed vertically and horizontally in this order. The resulting layout resembles a chessboard with vertical and horizontal cards alternating. This reserve is called the “quilt”.
The cards on the quilt with their shorter sides exposed, i.e. cards with one of their shorter sides not touching another card, are available for play to the foundations or the top of the wastepile. The foundations that start with the Aces are built up by suit while those that start with the Kings are built down also by suit.
The stock is dealt one at a time onto the wastepile. The top card of the wastepile can be used to build on the foundations and be built up or down by suit using cards from the quilt.
The top card on the foundation may be moved except for the base card.
Once the stock runs out, the wastepile (which includes cards acquired from the quilt) is gathered and turned faced down without shuffling to be used as the new stock. This can be done only once in the entire game.
A relaxed version called Indian Carpet is also available. It allows an extra redeal, in order to make the game easier.
The Solitaire converges when all cards, both from the quilt and the wastepile, end up in the foundations.
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