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Gypsy fuses Klondike's alternating-color tableau with Spider's all-at-once stock deal, a hybrid so good it inspired PySol's creator to start coding.

Gypsy Solitaire blends Klondike's alternating-color tableau with Spider's stock: two decks fill eight tableau piles three cards deep, and every click of the stock adds one card to each pile at once, no waste pile involved.

Markus F. X. J. Oberhumer, the original author of PySol, calls this his favorite game and the one that got him started writing PySol. He first came across it in Volker Weidner's Atari ST game.

If tableau-building sequences are what pulled you in, Spider Solitaire gives you more of that same puzzle. You might also like Irmgard Solitaire, a close Gypsy variant with an extra tableau pile.

If you run into anything odd or have an idea that would make the game better, please contact me.

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How to play Gypsy Solitaire

Foundation:

There are eight foundation piles.

A card can be added to a foundation pile only if it's one rank higher and the same suit as the pile's current top card, so the only card that fits on a 4 of diamonds is a 5 of diamonds. There can be no more than 13 cards in a pile.

The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play anytime, as long as another pile will accept it.

Tableau:

Eight tableau piles of three cards each. The top card in each pile is dealt face-up, while the other two are dealt face-down.

A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower and the opposite color of the pile's current top card, so the only cards that fit on an 8 of diamonds are the 7 of spades and 7 of clubs.

Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card are free to be played onto the foundation or any other tableau pile.

Any card can fill an empty slot in the tableau.

If the cards are alternately red and black, groups of cards in succession from high to low can be shifted from one tableau column to another.

Stock:

The stock is made up of leftover cards.

When you click on the stock, a card is dealt to the top of each tableau pile. There's only one pass through the stock, so there's no redeal.