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This is the article about the solitaire game. For the rock band, see The Plot (band).

The Plot is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards.

First, thirteen cards are dealt, squared up, and turned face up. This pile makes up the reserve. Then a card is placed as the first foundation. Then, below the reserve, twelve cards are dealt in three rows of four cards each.

As they become available, the seven other cards of the same rank as the first foundation card are placed in the foundations as well, and all are built up regardless of suit until each contains thirteen cards. For example, if the card dealt after the reserve is formed is a seven, the other sevens should start the other foundations. But the other foundations cards are subject on this restriction: The first foundation must be built up first until it has thirteen cards. When the first foundation is finished, the other seven foundations can be started and built at the same time.

The top card of the reserve is available for play only on the foundations. The top cards of the tableau piles (initially containing one card) are available for play both on the foundations and on the reserve. The tableau cards are built down regardless of suit, and only one card can be moved at a time. Building in this case is round-the-corner, i.e. an ace is ranked between a king and a two.

Spaces in the tableau are filled using only from the wastepile or the stock (never from the tableau), but not immediately; the player can leave a space as long as one likes. During the restriction, while the first foundation is still being built, only a card that is the same rank as the first card of the first foundation are placed is placed on it; foundation cards cannot be built or built upon, in the tableau. Once the first foundation is finished (i.e. contains thirteen cards), any card from the wastepile or the stock can be placed on a space.

The stock can be dealt one at a time and unplayable cards can be placed on the wastepile, the top card of which is available for play. There is no redeal.

The game ends when the game goes on a standstill after the stock runs out. The game is won when all cards are built in the foundations.

Obviously, because of the restriction, the player is advised to built on the first foundation as fast as possible so when that is done, the player can proceed in the building the other foundations. Also, the use of the reserve is suggested in every opportunity, and the use of spaces must be maximized, since they may not filled immediately.

See also

• Solitaire terminology

Sir Tommy is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is said to be the earliest card building games and belongs to the same family of card building games as Calculation and Strategy. It is also known as Try Again and Old Patience.

Cards are dealt one at a time. When an ace turns up, it forms a foundation and is build up to King regardless of suit. Four such foundations should be built. A card that cannot yet be placed on the foundation is placed onto one of four wastepiles; once placed, it cannot be moved. The top cards of each wastepile are available to be placed on the foundations.

The game is won if all cards are emptied from the wastepiles and built on the foundations. It is said that for this to be done successfully, one waste pile should be reserved for Kings and other high cards.

Intelligence is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards mixed together. It is basically a two-deck version of another solitaire game La Belle Lucie and its game play is somewhat closer to the parent game than its cousins House in the Wood and House on the Hill.

First, 18 piles (or fans) of three cards are dealt. During this deal any ace encountered regardless of where it would end up in the pile will be moved to a foundation and be replaced with another card. As they become available, the other aces are placed on the foundations, which are all built up by suit.

The top cards of the piles are available to be built on the foundations or on each other’s piles on the tableau. When building on the tableau, the cards are built either up or down by suit. Aces cannot be placed over kings, however, and vice versa.

When a gap occurs, it is immediately filled by three new cards from the stock. This is the only way cards from the stock are introduced from the game and the only way spaces are refilled. As in the original deal, any ace that comes up is immediately placed on the foundations.

When all moves have been made and become stuck, even if there are still cards in the stock, the stock and all the cards in the tableau are gathered, reshuffled, and 18 piles of three cards each are redealt, or as many piles of three cards as the remaining ones can allow. This can be done twice and during both redeals as in the original deal, any aces the player encounters are immediately placed onto the foundations.

The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.

Sloane Lee and Gabriel Packard’s version of the game (in the book 100 Best Solitaire Games) slightly increased the number of tableau piles to 19 because they think this improves the game.

Speed is a card game, in which each player tries to get rid of his or her cards.

Dealing

Each player is dealt five cards to form a hand, and fifteen cards facedown to form a drawing pile. A stack of five cards is then placed facedown on each side between the players, and serves as a replacement pile. Finally, two cards are placed between the replacement piles in the center in two different places, also facedown. Players flip the two center cards and proceed to put down cards. In traditional Speed, a player can put down a card that is either one higher or lower than the card in the center. For ace cards, the two choices are king and two. The game ends when one player has put down all of his or her cards. If neither player can put down any cards, they flip cards from the replacement cards and continue. If all replacement cards are used up, two cards are randomly selected from the pile and placed on top.

Variations In Play

Doubles: In addition to ascending or descending order, players can also play a card equal in value to the face-up card. For example, if a 7 was one of the middle cards, players could play either a 6, 7, or an 8.

Multiple Cards: While most players choose to rule that only one card can be played at a time, others favor playing where opponents can play multiple cards. For example, if a player’s hand consisted of a 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, and a 4 was one of the down cards, he or she could play all of the cards in one placement.

Verbal Win: In some games, a player is required to shout “Speed!” in addition to slamming all of the cards in the middle. Though this must be agreed apon, before the play begins.

Magic Speed: After the game is ‘over’, each player tries to slap the smaller pile and the loser takes the larger one. From this, the game continues with the players always slapping a pile at the end until someone has no cards left.

Similar Games: The game Spit is similar in nature to this game because of the way players play cards sequentially and quickly. Spit, however, is not played with cards in your hand, instead all cards are laid out in 5 stacks and played from the top down. The end of the game is what is described above as the variation “Magic Speed”.

Esther Howland (1828 - 1904) was an artist and businesswoman who is responsible for popularizing Valentine’s Day greeting cards.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1847 at the age of 19. Howland received an ornate English Valentine from a business associate of her father and began to create and market her own brand of Valentine’s Day greeting cards. She employed friends and developed a thriving business which she eventually sold in 1881.

External links

• Making Valentines: A tradition in America
• Worcester Historical Museum
• American Heritage

Captive Queens is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. The game is so named because the queens are being “enclosed” as the foundations are built.

There are two ways that the queens are played in this game: either they are laid in the center of the tableau immediately or shuffled into the deck and laid out later. Either way, their role is just purely decorative and have no further part in the game.

The game starts by laying the cards from the stock one at a time into a wastepile in search for fives or sixes. Once any of these cards are found, it becomes a foundation and can be placed on a circle surrounding the area where queens are placed; it can be built upon immediately. The foundations’ places in this circle are irrelevant.

The fives are built down and the sixes are built up, all by suit. Here’s the chart of which cards are placed on these cards:

After the foundation cards are found, the rest of the stock is dealt to look for cards that can be built in to the foundations. In case the queens are shuffled into the deck, when a queen is found, it is placed on the center.

Once the stock runs out, the cards are gathered from the wastepile and become the new stock from which cards are to be dealt. This can only be done twice in the whole game.

The game is won when all the cards are in the foundations with the face cards (kings and jacks) are at the top of each foundation, like the thumbnail at the right.

The United States Playing Card Company, started in 1867, produces and distributes playing cards, including Kem, Bee, Bicycle, Aviator, Maverick, Tuxedo, Hoyle, Tally HO, plus other playing card accessories, like poker chips. The company is based in Norwood, Ohio.

For over a hundred years, the inexpensive Bicycle brand cards have been the top selling playing card brand in the world. Bee is a high-quality brand manufactured not only for consumer use, but used widely in casinos. The company also famously made the Iraq’s Most Wanted playing cards.

In addition to playing cards, the company offers card game accessories and novelty playing cards, including Winnie the Pooh, Spider-Man, NASCAR, Harley-Davidson, Coca-Cola and Budweiser. The company also produces many varieties of Tarot cards.

USPC has owned Spanish playing card manufacturer Heraclio Fournier since 1986. In 2004 they acquired Kem Playing Cards.

USPC debuted a new line of cards called “PokerPeek” at the 2007 World Series of Poker, however the cards were pulled from play and replaced with cards with a more traditional face layout due to complaints from players. [1]

External links

• Official site

Stonewall is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is probably named because the player seems to break down walls as one exposes more of the face-down cards. Its tableau is similar to that of Flower Garden with its beds as columns.

Thirty-six cards are dealt onto the tableau into six columns of six cards each. It should be noted that the exposed (top) card and the third and fifth cards from it are faced up while the second, fourth, and sixth cards from the top are faced down. The 16 leftover cards act as the reserve.

The object of the game is to move the Aces to the foundations and build each of them up by suit.

The top cards of each column, as well as all the cards in the reserve, are available for play to the foundations or the tableau. Building on the tableau is down by alternating colors and a sequence (or a part of a sequence) can be moved as unit. Any gap on the tableau can be filled by any exposed card or any sequence.

The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations. But chances of winning are low, especially, for instance, that the needed cards are those faced down.

The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was incorporated by a Royal Charter in 1628; the City granted it the status of a Livery Company in 1792. As cards have evolved from objects made by craftsmen to mechanically produced goods, the Company has lost its role as a trade association for card makers. Instead, the Company functions as a charitable institution.

The Makers of Playing Cards’ Company ranks seventy-fifth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is Corde Recto Elati Omnes, Latin for With an Upright Heart All Are Exalted.

External link

• The Makers of Playing Cards’ Company

Auld Lang Syne is a solitaire card game which is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. It is a game which is somewhat akin to Sir Tommy, except in the dealing of the deck.

First, the four aces are separated from the rest of the deck and placed on the layout as the foundations. The object of the game is to build each of the foundations from Ace to King regardless of suit.

Four cards are dealt below the aces, each starting a tableau pile. The player then determines whether any of the four cards can be built on the foundations. In this first deal of four (and in succeeding deals), when a card is played and leaves a gap it is not filled until the next deal. Furthermore, there is no building or playing in the tableau.

When the player has built all the cards on the foundation that can be played, or if the cards cannot be played at all, a new set of four cards is dealt, one over each tableau pile. This process is repeated until all cards are dealt. There is no redeal.

The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations. This is rare; according to Morehead and Mott-Smith’s The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games, it can be achieved once in 100 games.

The IBM 550 numerical interpreter was the first commercial machine made by IBM that read numerical data punched on cards and printed it across the top of each card. The 550 was introduced in 1930.

Information to be printed could be placed in any sequence via control panel selections. The machine operated at the rate of 75 cards a minute. The feed hopper had a capacity of 800 cards, and the stacker had a capacity of 1,000 cards.

References

For other uses of the word Labyrinth, see labyrinth (disambiguation)

Labyrinth is solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. Although the words labyrinth and maze are synonymous, this game and the solitaire game of Maze should not be confused with each other because they are different in the manner of game play and dealing. The rules of the game described below are from the book Card Games for One by Peter Arnold.

The player first takes the four Aces out of the deck and lay them down as the foundations. Then eight cards are laid in a row below these four cards.

The cards on this row can be built on the foundations up by suit up to Kings. Any gap is immediately filled by a card from the stock. Once no more moves can be made, a new row of eight cards is formed. However, once any card leaves the second row to the foundations, it is not filled; filling gaps by new cards only applies to the first row.

Only cards on the top and bottom rows are available and when a card on the bottom row is removed, the card above it is released and can be played. The same goes for a card which is below a card from the top row when that card is removed, when the player decides to fill the gap later or when the stock runs out.

As new rows are formed, chances are that there are gaps in the in-between rows except the top. These “holes” give the impression of a labyrinth, hence the name.

The dealing of new rows, putting cards to the foundations, and filling any gaps on the first row continues until the stock runs out. When the player gets stuck after this point, he can draw any card from the other rows as a last resort.

The game is won when all cards are built into the foundations.

Switch was a debit card used in the United Kingdom. It was a sister of the Solo debit card. Switch was launched in 1988 by Midland Bank, National Westminster Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland. The brand has now been merged with Maestro, an international debit card brand. This merger has been referred to as the “penguin wedding” with distinctive advertisements of the penguins in different international settings, by Joel Veitch. However, despite the Maestro brand name, the transactions in the UK are still processed by the Switch system.

This means that many retailers in the UK who advertise that they accept Maestro can only accept UK-issued Maestro cards i.e. former switch cards. This situation creates a lot of confusion for tourists, business people and others visiting the UK as they often have their Maestro cards declined.

See also

• Solo (debit card)

External links

• Official site

Queen of Italy (also known as Terrace) is a solitaire card game that is played using two decks of playing cards. It is one of those which has the lowest chances of winning because the cards that would potentially block the game is presented at the start.

First, eleven cards are dealt in a row, overlapping each other. These cards form the reserve or “the terrace” (hence the name Terrace). After leaving a space below the terrace for the foundations, four cards are laid out in a row on the tableau. The player will then choose which of these four cards would start the first foundation. Once the choice has been made and the card chosen is placed on the foundation row, the gap it leaves behind is immediately filled with a new card from the stock. Five new cards are then added beside these four to form the tableau.

The foundations are built up in alternating colors, wrapping from King to Ace if necessary. The cards on the tableau are available to be built either on the foundations or on other cards in the tableau. The card on the tableau are built down on each other also in alternating colors, and any gap is immediately filled by a card from the stock. Cards are moved one at a time, and when a column is formed from building cards, only the top card is available for play.

The top card (i. e. the exposed card) of the terrace is the only card available for play and can be used to build only on the foundations.

When there are no more possible moves on the tableau, the stock is dealt one card at a time and placed on the wastepile, the top card of which is available to be built on the foundations or the tableau. The top card of the wastepile is also used to fill a gap on the tableau whenever it occurs. However, when the stock runs out, there is no redeal; the game ends soon after.

The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations. The game is lost when it is stuck after the entire stock has been dealt.

See also: solitaire terminology

Blockade is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. Akin to solitaire games like Klondike and Gargantua, the object of the game is play the cards into the eight foundations.

The game starts with twelve piles, each containing a card (the rest form the stock). Cards are built down by suit (e.g., 7-6-5-4) and cards or groups of cards can be moved from one pile to another or to the foundations. The foundations are built up also by suit, starting from the ace. An empty pile will be filled up immediately by a card from the stock.

When all possible moves are done without success, a card is dealt onto each pile, even with those that have sequences. This and the placing of cards on empty piles is done until the stock runs out. After that, any card or group of cards can be placed on any empty space.

The game is won when all 104 cards are successfully moved to the foundations.

External links

• Blockade

For the Ludacris song, see Rollout (My Business)

Rollout or roll ‘em out is poker jargon used for a game phase in certain poker variants. It is often incorrectly called “roll your own”, to which it has similarities but from which it is fundamentally different.

Poker games with a rollout phase resemble stud poker but have significantly different strategies, because players generally receive all of their cards up front (sometimes with a draw phase), and know the final value of their hand in early betting rounds. They resemble stud poker only in that cards are revealed to other players one at a time for each betting round.

There are the same three variations on the idea as with roll your own, depending on when players are allowed to choose which card to reveal. They can either be forced to arrange the order of their cards before any betting begins (”choose before”), or they can be allowed to choose cards in later rounds based on information found in earlier rounds (”choose after”). In the latter case, the revealing can be made simultaneously or in turn.

In the game of show five, for example, each player is dealt seven cards before any betting begins, and each of the game’s five betting rounds begins with the players simultaneously revealing one of their cards (”simultaneous choose-after rollout”). Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win.

A ration card is a card issued by a government allowing the holder to obtain certain rations. They are frequently seen in wartime. They are also used to provide goods to the poor sections of the society at highly subsidized prices.

Ration Cards in India

Ration cards are an important part of the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India.
They are of three types:

• Antyodaya ration cards, issued to the poorest of the poor.
• Below Poverty Line (BPL)cards
• Above Poverty Line (APL) cards

On the basis of their economic condition, people can buy goods like food grains, sugar, kerosene, etc. at varying prices, with the help of their ration cards.

A long suit in Sheepshead is where a player has two or more cards of the same (non-trump) suit. These suits include hearts, spades, and clubs.

Here is a list of cards part of the non-trump suit:

• Ace
• Ten
• King
• Nine
• Eight
• Seven

Notice that there are only 6 cards. If you have 2 (or more) of them, the chances that every other player having the same suit is rather minimal (or impossible if you are playing 5 hand and you have 3 cards of one suit).

In other words, let’s say you have the Ace, 8 and 7 of hearts. If you lead out the hearts suit, you should expect that someone is going to trump it. (There are only 3 hearts left, and 4 players!) Unless you know otherwise, you generally wouldn’t lead the ace or ten if you have a long suit. Lead out a smaller card and save that Ace to smear it later. (And chances are, on a long suit, that that Ace WILL become schmear for someone..)

Fusajiro Yamauchi (山内 房治郎 Yamauchi Fusajirō, November 22, 1859 – January 1940) was the founder of the company that is now known as Nintendo Company Limited. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan and had a daughter, Tei Yamauchi (who later married future Nintendo president and Fusajiro Yamauchi’s successor, Sekiryo Kaneda). Fusajiro has been somehow related to every president of Nintendo except the most recent, Satoru Iwata (who took over for Hiroshi Yamauchi, Fusajiro Yamauchi’ great-grandson, in 2002).

Business

Fusajiro Yamauchi began his business under the name “Nintendo Koppai” in 1889. The company made Japanese playing cards. The cards, known as hanafuda, daitoryo, or president, came in decks of 48. Each card was hand made using bark from mulberry (or mitsu-mata) trees. He sold the cards in two different shops in Japan; one in Kyoto and one in Osaka. Nintendo Koppai soon became a runaway success, forcing Yamauchi to hire additional help so he could produce enough cards to keep up with the demand, which continued to grow.

Retirement

Fusajiro Yamauchi retired in 1929. His son-in-law, Sekiryo Kaneda, took over his company. Yamauchi was killed in 1940, during the World War II era. Although not related to the war, the specific cause of death is still (at least publicly) unknown due to the limited resources and poor documentation that accompanied wartime. His remains are entombed in the basement of the original Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto, Japan.

Descendants

Fusajiro is the great-grandfather of former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi.

This article is about the solitaire game. To know about interregnum, see its associated article.

Interregnum is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 cards each. The object of this game is to build eight foundations of thirteen cards each, regardless of suit. But building the foundations is unusual compared to most foundation-building games.

The game starts with eight cards dealt in a row. The space below each card is a foundation and the card above the foundation is its last card. Therefore, the foundation must start with a card which is a rank higher than the card over it and is built up from there without any regard to the suits. (E. g. a 5 above a 4, a 2 above an A, an A above a K, etc.)

Below the foundations are eight tableau piles each starting with one card each. The cards on the tableau must be moved to the foundations and there should be no further manipulation within the tableau. When no more moves are possible, a card is dealt from the 88-card reserve (the leftover cards) into each pile, whether empty or having at least one card. The top card of each pile is available for play.

When a foundation has been filled to the twelfth card, the card above the foundation is placed over it as the thirteenth card, closing out the foundation and setting it aside.

The game is over when the reserve has been used up and there no possible moves left. The game is won when all eight foundations have been set aside, each with thirteen cards each.

Sometimes, the first eight cards dealt (as mentioned above) are the foundations and are built the same way as if they are the first cards. Once a foundation is filled with thirteen cards, ending with the card a rank lower than the first card, it is closed out and set aside.

Joyce Clyde Hall (August 29, 1891 – October 29, 1982), American businessman, was the founder of Hallmark Cards.

Born in David City, Nebraska the fifth son of Nancy Dudley Houston and George Nelson Hall, a minister,http://www.wargs.com/other/hall.html Hall worked odd jobs, mostly involving sales, from age 8 on to supplement the meager income of his father. Hall’s response to his father’s mantra, “the Lord will provide,” was, “It’s a good idea to give the Lord a little help.” In 1905 Hall and his brothers invested $150 to buy picture postcards to sell to the salesmen who sold books to the shop where Hall worked. He conceived the Norfolk Post Card Company in 1908 in Norfolk, Nebraska.

In 1910, Hall, who had dropped out of high school, moved to Kansas City, Missouri with little more than two shoeboxes of postcards. By 1913, he and his brothers were operating a store selling not only postcards but also greeting cards. The store burned in 1915, and a year later, Hall bought an engraving business and began printing his own cards, which he marketed under the Hallmark brand name. It turned into a bigger business than he had before.

Hallmark’s business continued to grow, even during the Great Depression, which the company survived without laying off a single worker.

Hall, who objected to the name Joyce and typically went by “J.C.,” retired in 1966 and spent his retirement in efforts to revitalize the Kansas City downtown area. One of the results was Crown Center, a combination business/shopping district surrounding the Hallmark corporate headquarters. Hall died in 1982 in Kansas City.

Footnotes

Hit or Miss is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the unique solitaire card games because the player only deals the cards one at a time.

As the player deals the cards, he says the words “ace, two, three, four… nine, ten, jack, queen, king, ace…” and so on. To make things clearer, the player says “ace” when dealing the first card, “two” when dealing the second card, and so on until “king” for the thirteen card, “ace” again for the fourteen, and the process continues. The player can continue counting after the cards in the deck are used up, recollected and redealt.

Once the word uttered matches the rank of the card dealt, the card is “hit” and it is discarded. Cards that are “hit” no longer take further part in the game.

The player can continue the game and redeal the cards (and say “ace, two, three…” at the same time) as long as there are cards “hit.” But when all the remaining cards are dealt twice in succession without a “hit,” the game is lost. Therefore, all cards must be discarded in order for the game to be won.

Flimsies are a type of bingo cards printed on thin sheets of paper. They are typically printed with three cards on a single sheet, but also come in other formats:

• One card per sheet
• Two cards per sheet
• Four cards per sheet
• Six cards per sheet
• Nine cards per sheet

Flimsies costs $1-$2 per sheet and a win on a flimsy on a “special” game usually pays quite a bit more than a win on a “regular” game.

Also known as flimsy sheets or throwaways.

Sources

• Bingo Dictionary

See also

• Bingo
• Housie
• Bingo card

Bingo is a gambling card game named by analogy to the game bingo. Each player is dealt X cards and Y cards are dealt face down in common. The value of each hand is the sum of the values of each card, where the cards have blackjack values. The cards on the board are gradually revealed with opportunities to bet along the way. Bingo is usually played high-low with the pot being split between the players with the highest and lowest point totals. The exception would be if one player loses all his cards he takes the entire pot.

One example of play is “Sixty Six Bingo”. Each player gets six cards and there are six common cards. In this case there would be rounds of betting before any common cards are turned over, after the first two cards are turned over, after the third and fourth cards are turned over and after the fifth and sixth cards are turned over.

While similar to the game bingo, the card game should not be confused with bingo cards, which are used to play bingo or housie.

This page is for the card game. For the Nintendo 64 game of the same name, see California Speed (video game).

California Speed, also known as Super-Speed in Wisconsin and Rush in Missouri, is a fast paced shedding card game that has the added bonus of shuffling the deck.

Rules

Shuffle the deck if it hasn’t already been shuffled. This does not need to be done between games because playing the game shuffles the deck. The two players sit at opposite sides of a horizontal playing surface (usually a table or the floor). The dealer deals half the cards to each player. The cards are held face down. Every round each player plays four cards face up vertically in between both players and slightly closer to themselves. Once both players have done this, they look for two or more cards (of the 8 played) having the same number. When a player finds one, he or she places another card (from the stack of cards in their hand) on top of the cards with that number until all of the cards with the common number are covered. They then place another four cards face up on top of those previously played and continue the cycle. If a player runs out of cards then that player wins. When there are no more groups of cards remaining, each player scoops up the four piles directly in front of him or her and places them face down on the bottom of his or her deck. That round ends and the next begins.

In some versions of the game, there is a move called “doubles” in which the player is allowed to place a card on a stack of cards with two of the same number on top of each other. It is common that they call “doubles” to inform the other player what they did.

Strategy

Many people suggest playing on the cards on your opponent’s side as opposed to your own so they pick up the cards. This doesn’t do much as all of the possible cards are eventually played. A common strategy is to memorize the cards as they go down so you don’t have to see them all to start playing cards. This strategy is especially useful at the very beginning of each round. If you have a better memory then your opponent it might be a good idea to put the cards really close together at the beginning of the round and not accurately playing cards so that your opponent can’t tell the piles apart and only knows a fraction of the top cards. If you are better at multi-tasking you can try to distract your opponent by making conversation during the game. Playing your cards quickly also tends to distract your opponent.