Fourteen Out is a Patience

Patience (game)

Patience is a genre of tabletop games, consisting of card games that can be played by a single player. Patience games can also be played in a multiplayer fashion....

 card game

Card game

A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games...

 played with a deck of 52 playing card

Playing card

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games...

s. As this game involves carrying off cards with a fixed sum, it belongs to the same family of games as Pyramid

Pyramid (solitaire)

Pyramid is a solitaire game where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation.-Rules:Pairs of cards can be removed if their values total 13. In this game, Jacks value at 11, Queens at 12, and Kings at 13. Thus, kings can be removed immediately. Cards must not be covered....

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Method of Play

The cards are dealt face up into twelve columns, from left to right. The first four columns therefore receive an extra card. The exposed top cards of each column are available for play.

As denoted by the game's name, the object is to discard pairs of cards that total fourteen. Jacks value eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen, all others (including the ace) at face value. So the combination of cards to be discarded are as follows:

• King and Ace
• Queen and 2
• Jack and 3
• 10 and 4
• 9 and 5
• 8 and 6
• 7 and 7

Once a card has been discarded, the card under it becomes available. The game is won when all cards are discarded.

Strategy

Strategy of Fourteen Out involves identifying pairs that cannot be matched because of their position, and preemptively selecting other eligible matches. Potential difficulties arise when pairs are found in the same pile, or when two different matches are in potentially mutually blocking positions.

Variants

Columns may be stacked rather than cascaded, thus obscuring not-yet-active cards. This results in considerably more blind play.