Puss in the Corner

Puss in the Corner, also called Puss in Corner, is a patience or solitaire card game played by a single player with one standard deck of fifty two playing cards. It is classified among half open planner type patience games and is a modified variant of the game Sir Tommy, distinguished by its four waste piles positioned at the corners around the foundation piles, which is the source of its name. Setup begins by placing the four aces as foundations arranged in a two by two square. Unlike many patience games that build foundations strictly by suit, Puss in the Corner builds each foundation up in a single color rather than a single suit, so diamonds and hearts form one combined ascending sequence while spades and clubs form the other, continuing up through the king. During play, stock cards are turned one at a time and either placed on a matching foundation or added to one of the four corner waste piles, and the top card of any waste pile can later move to a foundation under the same color and sequence rule. One redeal of the stock is permitted after it is exhausted, and the game is won once every card has been built up onto the four foundations.