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Take Forty Thieves quadrupled to four decks: 208 cards, ten columns of eight, one pass through the stock. It's hard, 10% winnable, but four copies of every card can bail you out.
Eighty Thieves Solitaire is what happens when the most famous of all two-deck patiences refuses to stop growing. Forty Thieves — the stern classic also known as Napoleon at St. Helena — becomes Sixty Thieves at three decks, and at four decks it becomes this, the largest den in the family: 208 cards on the table, eighty of them dealt face-up into ten columns of eight.
The family rules survive the scaling untouched. Columns build down in suit, only one card may travel at a time, and the enormous 128-card stock allows just a single pass, so every card you send to the waste is a commitment. The one mercy of the giant deal is duplication: with four copies of every card in play, a buried card is not always a lost cause, because another copy may still be free elsewhere. That single pass through the stock is why this one is rated hard, a roughly 10% win rate across all four decks, with skill doing most of the work.
Forty Thieves Solitaire and Sixty Thieves Solitaire take the same idea in smaller directions.
If you enjoy Eighty Thieves Solitaire, try the classic original Solitaire.
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How to play Eighty Thieves Solitaire
Layout:
16 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Ace to King.
10 tableau piles: Build down in suit. At the start of the game, each pile is dealt eight face-up cards.
Stock: Click to flip over cards one at a time to the waste. There are no redeals.
Waste: The top card is playable.
Foundation:
There are sixteen 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 an 8 of spades is a 9 of spades. Each pile begins with an ace and is complete at the king.
Cards that become safe to play are sent to the foundations automatically, but you can still move a foundation's top card back into the tableau if another pile will accept it.
Tableau:
Ten tableau piles of eight cards each, all dealt face-up.
A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower and the same suit as the pile's current top card, so the only card that fits on an 8 of spades is a 7 of spades.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card are free to be played onto the foundations or any other tableau pile.
Any card can fill an empty slot in the tableau.
Only one card may be moved at a time; sequences are not permitted.
Stock and waste:
There is one waste pile and the remaining cards comprise the stock.
When you click on the stock, one card from the stock is dealt to the waste. There's only one pass through the stock.
The top card of the waste can be played to the tableau or foundations.
