Fortune's Favor
| A Simple packer | |
| Deck | Single 52-card |
|---|---|
| Playing time | 5 min[1] |
| Odds of winning | 9 in 10[1] |
Fortune's Favor or Fortune's Favour is a
Busy Aces, a member of the Forty Thieves
family of solitaire games.
History
The rules were first published in England by
Mott-Smith call it Fortune's Favour,[1] as does David Parlett,[5] while Coops and Moyse call it Fortune's Favor.[6][7] Parlett notes its original name of Four Seasons as an alternative. Morehead and Mott-Smith introduced a horizontal layout with the foundations as the top row.[1]
Rules
First, the four aces are removed from the deck and placed in a row to form the
foundations
. These foundations are built up by suit to kings.
Below the foundations, two
stock
. Only one card can be moved at a time.
The stock, when play comes to a standstill, is dealt one card at a time onto a wastepile, the top card of which is available for play on the tableau or foundations.
The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations.
See also
- Forty Thieves
- List of patiences and solitaires
- Glossary of patience and solitaire terms
References
Bibliography
- Coops, Helen Leslie (1939). 100 Games of Solitaire. Whitman. 128 pp. Definitive [US] pre-war collection.
- Dick, Harris B. (1898). Dick's Games of Patience; or, Solitaire with Cards. 2nd Series. 113 pp. 70 games. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald.
- G. Mott-Smith(1949). The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games. NY: Longmans
- Moyse, Alphonse Jr. (1950). 150 Ways to Play Solitaire. Cincinnati: USPCC. 128 pp. “A pretty decent book” IA
- ISBN 0-7139-1193-X
- Professor Hoffmann [Angelo Lewis] (1892). The Illustrated Book of Patience Games. London: Routledge.
