Canfield

Canfield uses one 52-card pack. Thirteen cards are dealt face down as the reserve, with its top card turned face up. The next card goes up as the first foundation: its rank is the base card, and the other three foundations must each be started with a card of that rank. Four cards are dealt face up to start the tableau, and the rest form the stock.

• Foundations build up in suit from the base card, turning the corner from King to Ace when they need to. With a base card of 9, a foundation runs 9, 10, J, Q, K, A, 2 … 8.
• Tableau piles build down in alternating colours, turning the corner from Ace to King.
• You can move a tableau pile's top card on its own, or the whole pile as one unit.
• The top card of the reserve is always in play. A gap in the tableau is filled at once with the reserve's top card. When the reserve is used up, you can fill a gap with the top card of the waste.
• Deal the stock three cards at a time onto the waste. The waste's top card is available. When the stock runs out, turn the waste over and go through it again, as often as you like.
• You win when all 52 cards are on the foundations.

• Tap a face-up card to pick it up, then tap the pile where it should go. Piles where it fits are highlighted.
• Double-tap a card to send it to a foundation, if it can go there.
• Tap the stock, or Deal 3, to deal three cards. When the stock is empty, tap it, or Redeal, to turn the waste over.
• Undo takes back a move, as many times as you like. Auto-finish sends every card it can to the foundations.

• Daily: everyone gets the same deal each day.
• New Game: a fresh deal.

5 points for each card on the foundations (Richard Canfield paid his gamblers $5 a card), plus 500 and a time bonus (up to 1,200, less a point a second) for getting them all home.

• Work on the reserve first: its cards can only come out one at a time, and a stuck reserve is how most games are lost.
• Don't fill a tableau pile up with stock cards when a gap would let a reserve card come out.
• Count where the base-rank cards are. The other three foundations can't start until they turn up.
• Because you deal in threes, a card can be stuck in the middle of a group. Playing just one card from the waste changes the groups on the next pass.

Canfield is the American name for the English game Demon. According to Wikipedia, it was first recorded in 1891 by Mary Whitmore Jones as Demon Patience, "by far the best game for one pack that has yet been invented", its name coming from its knack of snatching success away at the last moment. In America it became linked with the gambler Richard A. Canfield, who after 1900 is said to have sold players a pack of cards at his Saratoga Springs clubhouse for $50 or $52 and paid $5 for every card they got onto the foundations. Wikipedia notes that sources differ over which game he really used, and that it may have been Klondike. The rules here follow Wikipedia's description, written in our own words.

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