How Do You Play Double Canfield Solitaire?
Richard Canfield, a famous gambler and casino owner in the late 1800s, created Canfield Solitaire. Canfield allowed guests to “buy” a deck of cards for $50 and then agreed to pay them $5 for every card played to the foundation stacks. The game made him a very rich man. In Double Canfield, two games are set up and players race to place more foundation cards than the other. Shuffle a standard deck of 52 cards. Deal out 13 cards face down into a neat stack to create the Demon Pile. Turn up the top card and set the stack to the side. Turn over the first card from the reserve pile (the remaining 39 cards) to determine the starting foundation card in all four suits. Flip another card and set it immediately below the first. Add three cards to create a four of four tableau cards. Set the remaining stock cards aside. Remove any foundation cards that are the same value and set it next to the existing foundation card. Build on the foundation cards in ascending order as play begins. Move all four
