Rules for Fanny

Family: Calculation
Categories: Thinker's, Two-Deck, Long, Rewarding
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Fanny is one of those games that consists of playing cards from a stock into a limited set of reserve piles, until they can be played from the reserves to the foundations. It is similar to Calculation, but easier to keep straight in your head because (unlike Calculation) the foundations build up in suit from the Ace like most other solitaires.

The strategy lies in storing cards in the right order on the right reserves, so that later on you can peel them off again without finding yourself blocked.

Layout

Shuffle two decks together, and deal 12 cards face-up to form the stock. Keep the remaining 92 cards in your hand. Eight foundations and five reserve piles start the game empty.

Play

Turn cards face-up from the hand, one at a time. Move each card either onto a foundation, or onto any reserve pile. You may also move the top card of the stock at any time, either to a reserve or to a foundation. Foundations must start with an Ace, and after that they build up following suit to the King. You can play any card onto any reserve pile, regardless of rank or suit.

Goal

The goal is to move all the cards onto the foundations.

Tips

Until late in the game, you will mostly be playing cards onto the reserves. Beware of trapping a lower-ranked card under higher-ranked cards of the same suit. If two cards of equal suit and rank are placed above any card of the same suit and lower rank, you will never be able to move both of the higher-ranked cards, and you will eventually be stuck.