Heads And Tails

Solitaire card game

For the coin-tossing game, see Coin flipping. For the faces of a coin, see Obverse and reverse.

Heads and Tails is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. It is mostly based on luck.

## Rules[edit]

First, a row of eight cards are dealt; this is the "Heads" row. Then 8 piles of 11 cards are dealt; this is reserve. Below them is another row of eight cards, the "Tails" row.

The object of the game is to free one Ace and one King of each suit and build each of them by suit; the Aces are built up to Kings while the Kings are built down to Aces.

Only the cards on the Heads and Tails rows are available to play on the foundations or on either the Heads or Tails row; the eight piles are used only to fill gaps. The cards on the Heads or Tails rows can be built either up or down by suit; building can change direction, but Aces cannot be built onto Kings and vice versa.

When a gap occurs on either the Heads or the Tails row, it is filled by the top card of the reserve pile immediately below or above it (depending on which row the gap is). But when a gap occurs above or below an empty pile, two different rule sets say the gap is filled with:

* The top card of the pile to the immediate left of the empty pile (Solsuite, BVS Solitaire Collection)
* The top card of any other pile. (Pretty Good Solitaire)

The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations.

## References[edit]

* Arnold, Peter. Card Games For One
* Dalton, Basil. The Complete Patience Book
* Hervey, George F. Enjoying Card Games for One
* Parlett, David. The Penguin Book of Patience

## See also[edit]

* List of solitaires
* Glossary of solitaire

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Patience or Solitaire by type - (list, glossary)

Closed games|

| Simple builders|

* Amazons
* Auld Lang Syne
* Birthday
* The Clock
* Clock
* Cotillion (Contradance)
* Leoni's Own
* Musical (Betsy Ross, Fairest, Four Kings, Plus Belle, Quadruple Alliance)
* Precedence
* Quadrille (La Française; Captive Queens)

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Reserved builders|

* Carpet
* Eagle Wing
* Golf
* Duchess of Luynes (Grand Duchess)
* Queen's/King's Audience
* Matrimony
* Monte Carlo
* Moojub
* Odd and Even
* Patriarchs
* Pyramid
* Royal Cotillion
* Royal Rendezvous
* Sultan (Emperor of Germany)
* Windmill

Simple packers|

* Batsford
* Big Ben
* British Constitution
* British Square
* Congress
* Corona
* Deauville
* Deuces
* Diplomat
* Emperor
* Following
* Fortune's Favor
* Four Seasons
* Gargantua
* Herring-Bone
* Klondike
* Napoleon at St Helena (Forty Thieves)
* Napoleon's Square
* Red and Black
* Westcliff

Reserved packers|

* Acme
* Alhambra
* American Toad
* Backbone
* Canfield
* Casket
* Crazy Quilt
* Duchess
* Gate
* The Plot
* Queen of Italy (Terrace)
* Seven Devils

Closed non-builders|

* Accordion
* Aces Up
* Baroness (Five Piles, Thirteens)
* Decade
* Eight Cards
* Elevens
* Frustration
* Good Thirteen
* Herz zu Herz
* Hit or Miss
* Hope Deferred
* Nidgi Novgorod
* Perpetual Motion (Narcotic)
* Royal Flush
* Royal Marriage
* Travellers (Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Hide & Seek, Spoilt, Wandering Card)

Half-open games|

| Builders|

* Interregnum
* Royal Parade
* Tournament
* Virginia Reel

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Blockades|

* Babette
* British Blockade
* Labyrinth

Planners|

* Calculation
* Colorado
* Colours
* Cribbage Squares
* Frog
* Imaginary Thirteen
* Jubilee
* Poker Squares
* Puss in the Corner
* Rosamund's Bower
* Sir Tommy

Packers|

* Agnes
* Algerian
* Blockade
* Box Kite
* Bristol
* Four Corners
* Heads And Tails
* Intelligence
* Martha
* Miss Milligan
* Mount Olympus
* Pyramide
* Russian Solitaire
* St. Helena
* Stonewall
* Yukon
* Zodiac

Spiders|

* German Patience
* Rouge et Noir
* Scorpion
* Simple Simon
* Spider

Open games|

| Open builders|

* Archway
* Black Hole
* Crescent
* Intrigue
* Salic Law
* Stalactites

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Open packers|

* Baker's Dozen
* Baker's Game
* Beleaguered Castle
* Bisley
* Capricieuse
* Eight Off
* Flower Garden (Bouquet)
* Fortress
* FreeCell
* Grandfather's Clock
* House in the Woods
* King Albert
* La Belle Lucie
* Mrs. Mop
* Päckchen
* Penguin
* Persian
* Russian Patience
* Seahaven Towers
* Shamrocks

Open non-builders|

* Fourteen Out
* Gaps (Montana)
* Gay Gordons (Exit)
* Maze
* Nestor

Competitive games|

* Australian Patience
* Double Klondike (Double Solitaire)
* Kings in the Corner
* Nerts (Pounce, Racing Demon)
* Russian Bank (Crapette)
* Speed
* Spite and Malice
* Spit

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