Seven Devils

Solitaire game

For other uses, see Seven Devils (disambiguation).

Seven DevilsA Patience game

Family| Klondike-like
Deck| Double 52-card
See also Glossary of solitaire
Seven DevilsPlayers| 1

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Skills| Tactics
Age range| 13+
Cards| 104
Deck| Anglo-American
Rank (high→low)| K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 A
Playing time| Various
Chance| Hard

Seven Devils is a solitaire game in the style of Canfield played with two decks of playing cards. It is considered to be a very difficult solitaire game.[1]

## Rules

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Two decks (104 cards) are used. Twenty-eight cards are dealt out to seven diminishing columns with the bottom card of each column face up, and a further seven cards (the "devils") are dealt face up to the right of the columns.

The aim is to move all the cards into thirteen-card sequences on the goal piles (at the right of the board), ascending in sequence and following suit, starting with the aces.

Cards on the table can be stacked red-on-black in descending sequence. Any card can be used to fill an empty column.

Only one card can be moved at a time. Some variations of Seven Devils let you move several cards if there are empty columns as if the empty columns were used as temporary spots.

The seven devils in the reserve stack cannot be placed on other stacks, and can be moved only to the goal piles.

## Difficulty

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The difficulty of this game arises from four factors:

* Many games are not winnable from the start. If two higher cards overlie any card in the same suit in the reserve, the lower card can never be reached.
* Even if this is not the case, if high cards overlie lower ones in the reserve, the low cards can be very difficult to reach.
* If low cards, such as twos or threes, cannot be played to a column, they will be buried in the discard pile and become difficult to retrieve.
* Key low cards may be hidden face down in columns where they may well prove inaccessible.

## References

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1. ^ Thomas Warfield, The 4 Solitaire Games You Should Win Before You Die, 24 March 2015.

## See also

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* Canfield
* List of solitaire games
* Glossary of solitaire terms

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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)
* Tri Peaks
* 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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