How to Play Knotty Nines Solitaire

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Hi, this is Antonia Hoyland on behalf of Expert Village. This game is called Knotty Nines. For this game, you're going to want a single deck of cards, 52 regular standard good old deck. No jokers. Deal out nine cards in a three-by-three square. The rest of the cards become your stockpile. Only the values of the cards are considered here, not the suites. Cards can be moved on top of other cards in descending order, as in, you can put a jack on a queen. When a hole forms in the cards, fill it immediately with a card from the stockpile because that'll tell you what you need to do next. Of course, you don't have to fill it immediately. It's just a better idea. The goal of this game is to get all of your cards in four piles, in descending order, from king to ace. So you're transferring all these cards to try to get this to happen. Knotty Nines is just a tougher version of Trusty Twelve. If you haven't played Trusty Twelve, I'd recommend that you go ahead and play that first. It's exactly the same, except for in that deal you have twelve cards to go from instead of nine, which makes it a little bit easier. Actually, a lot a bit easier. One final note -- because it is basically a tougher version of another game, a lot of people let themselves have a special little privilege where you look at the top card of your stockpile before placing it. Just keep it up there so you always know what's coming next, sort of like in Tetris.

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