The Royal Gathering

Welcome to the grand event known as “The Royal Gathering”! In this exciting game, I will guide you through the rules and show you how to have a marvelous time. All you need is a regular deck of 52 cards, just like the ones used in France.

First, we have to prepare. To do this, we must shuffle the cards with great care, making sure they are mixed up perfectly. Once that is done, it’s time to deal. Spread out sixteen cards face up, arranging them in the shape of a square. Make sure each side of the square has four cards, forming the audience. The center of the square is known as the chamber, a space filled with anticipation.

The Spectacle Begins

Hey there! Let’s talk about this game. You know, it’s pretty interesting. The way it starts is with a Jack in each pile at the bottom, and then you build on top of them in a particular way. You have to go in descending order, and the cards have to be of the same suit.

Now, the goal is to have all the 2’s showing in the bottom pile, with their corresponding Jacks on top. But here’s the thing: you can’t move a Jack to the bottom pile until you have the same suited Ace available. Once you find that Ace, you can place the Jack on top of it. And that’s how you start building that pile for that specific suit.

If by any chance you have any Jacks and Aces of the same suit in the audience at the beginning, don’t worry. You can move them to the chamber right away and replace the spaces in the audience with cards from the draw pile.

But wait, there’s more! Whenever you have a King and a Queen of the same suit available, you gotta grab them. Take those cards out of the audience and put them together in the chamber. If you start the game with a King and Queen already matched up in the audience, you should move them to the chamber right away and fill the empty spaces with cards from the draw pile.

So now you know how to play this game. It can be a bit tricky, but once you get the hang of it, it’s a lot of fun. Good luck!

When I play Flip cards, I start by flipping them over one by one from the draw pile. This creates the waste pile, which is where I can find cards to play on the foundations. If the card I just flipped over can’t be played, I leave it on the waste pile. It’s important to fill any gaps in the audience with cards from the waste pile.

The top card of the waste pile is also usable for matching. For instance, if I have the Jack of Spades in the audience and I flip over the Ace of Spades, I can match the Jack and the Ace and move them to the chamber as a foundation pile.

WINNING

I keep playing the game until I either win or get blocked. There are no do-overs. I get blocked when all the cards are in the waste pile and no more moves can be made.