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Clear 156 cards across 24 tableau piles by pairing ranks that add to fourteen: a King with an Ace, a Queen with a 2, and so on.

Triple Fourteens Solitaire is Thomas Warfield's three-deck take on the classic adding game Fourteen Out Solitaire. The rule that gives the whole family its name is beautifully simple: whenever two exposed cards have ranks that add up to fourteen, they come off together. A King needs an Ace, a Queen needs a 2, a 10 needs a 4, and the 7 pairs with another 7 — those are four of the seven rank pairs that work, and clearing every one of them empties the table.

What sets this version apart is sheer scale. Three full decks put 156 cards on the felt, dealt into twenty-four long tableau piles, so there are seventy-eight pairs to break down before you win. That mountain of cards is both a blessing and a trap. On one hand, with twelve copies of every rank there is almost always a legal match somewhere; on the other, the piles run deep, and a card you need can sit buried under four or five others that have no partner in sight.

The winning approach is patience and bookkeeping. Rather than grabbing the first fourteen you spot, look for the pair that frees the most buried cards, and try to keep at least one card of each rank workable so no partner is stranded. Kings and Aces are the usual bottleneck — there are only so many of each — so unblock them early. Play carefully and this big, satisfying puzzle comes out more often than its size suggests.

The rest of the fourteens family scales the same idea up and down: Double Fourteens Solitaire plays it with two decks, while Fourteen Out sticks to one.

For a change of pace, the original Solitaire trades the pairing puzzle for straightforward suit-building, one deck at a time.

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How to play Triple Fourteens Solitaire

Layout:

24 tableau piles: The top card of each pile is available. Remove any two exposed cards whose ranks add up to fourteen — a King with an Ace, a Queen with a 2, an 8 with a 6, and so on. Pick up one card and drop it on its partner to send the pair away. At the start of the game the three decks are dealt across the piles: twelve piles of seven cards and twelve piles of six cards, all face-up.

Foundation: A hidden pile where matched pairs go and stay for good.

Foundation:

There is just one foundation pile, and you never see it during play — matched pairs go there and stay there for the rest of the game.

Tableau:

There are twenty-four tableau piles, played from three decks: the first twelve hold seven cards each and the following twelve hold six cards each. Every card is dealt face-up.

On the tableau, no building is permitted.

Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card are playable.

The tableau's empty spaces may not be filled.

Notes:

The following cards couple to 14: King-Ace, Queen-2, Jack-3, 10-4, 9-5, 8-6, 7-7.