Herz zu Herz

Herz zu Herz (lit. 'Heart to Heart') is a simple game of patience, played with a French-suited Skat pack of 32 cards. The aim of the game is to get rid of all the Hearts from the pack. It is basically a German adaptation of an earlier game called Knockout with slightly different rules, but played mostly the same way.

Herz zu Herz
A patience game
Herz zu Herz, layout after the 3rd round. The patience is not complete because not all the Hearts have been laid off
OriginGermany
TypeNon-builder
DeckSingle 32-card Skat pack
Playing time2½ minutes
Random chanceHigh
See also Glossary of patience terms

Rules

Like most games of patience, Herz zu Herz is a card game for one person. It uses a basic Skat deck of 32 cards.[1]

At the start of the game, the pack is shuffled and placed as a stock face down on the table. Next, the top three cards are drawn and placed in a row, face up. Any cards of the suit of Hearts are laid off to form a separate stack and this process is repeated four times with three cards each time. After that the rest of the cards in the talon are shuffled with the upcards and three cards are drawn again and the Hearts laid off. This is repeated five times. If this round does not result in all the Hearts being laid off to the Hearts pile, there is a third round of shuffling, drawing three cards and laying off any Heart.

The patience is solved if, after this third round, all the Hearts are in their own pile, otherwise, the game is lost.[2][1]

Variants

The patience game Knockout (also known under the name of Hope Deferred) is also played with 32 cards,[3] and is played mostly the same way as Herz zu Herz and possibly even the parent game. The difference is that the target suit is clubs instead of hearts and when a space is created in the row, it is filled. Thus, possibly more than 15 cards are dealt per round.[4][5][6] There is also an expanded version called Abandon Hope where all 52 French-suited playing cards are used and 24 (or more) are dealt in each of the three rounds.[6]

See also
  • List of solitaires
  • Glossary of solitaire

References
  1. Wolter-Rosendorf 1994, p. 11.
  2. Höfer 2010, pp. 89/90.
  3. "Knockout" (p.104) in Little Giant Encyclopedia of Games for One or Two, The Diagram Group, 1998. ISBN 0-8069-0981-1
  4. Morehead, Albert H.; Mott-Smith, Geoffrey (1977). Doern, G.Bruce; Johnson, Robert (eds.). The complete book of solitaire and patience games. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0553262408. OCLC 42026728.
  5. Moyse, Alphonse; U.S. Playing Card Co (1950). 150 ways to play solitaire: complete with layouts for playing. Cincinnati: United States Playing Card Company. OCLC 1023781790.
  6. Parlett, David Sidney. (1980) [1979]. The Penguin book of patience. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0140463461. OCLC 16536082.

Literature
  • "Herz zu Herz". In: Irmgard Wolter-Rosendorf: Patiencen in Wort und Bild. Falken-Verlag, 1994; p. 11. ISBN 3-8068-2003-1.
  • "Herz zu Herz". In: Katrin Höfer: Patiencen: Für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene. Neue Beispiele und Varianten. Aufgaben und Lösungen. Schlütersche, 2010; pp. 89–90. ISBN 3-8068-2003-1. (Google Books)
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