on the Ace of the same suit and the even numbers likewise on the Deuce of the same suit as follows: The rubbish heap may be turned twice. If the patience succeeds, the Kings and Queens will form pairs as in the dance of Quadrille. Captive Queens There are two ways of setting up the game: The Queens are laid in the middle of the table and the Fives and Sixes laid down in a radial pattern around them as shown to form the foundations. The Queens, Fives and Sixes are shuffled as part of the deck and laid out, as they appear, on the tableau but in no set order. Either way, the role of the Queens is purely decorative and plays no functional role in the game. The aim is to build the Sixes upwards in the same suit as far as the Jacks, and the Fives downwards as far as the Kings (via the Aces) as follows: To play, cards are turned from the stock and built if possible or discarded if not possible into a wastepile, face up. The top card of the wastepile is always available. Once the stock runs out, the cards are gathered from the wastepile and become the new stock from which cards are to be dealt. Three re-deals are permitted. The game is won when all the cards are in the foundations with the court cards (Kings and Jacks) at the top of each foundation, as shown on the right. According to Arnold a successful game takes about 6 minutes to complete and the odds are 2 in 5. Morehead & Mott-Smith give the playing time as 4 minutes and odds of 1 in 2. Variants Contradance (Cotillion) works in the same way as Captive Queens, but uses two decks. Related games Other games in which building takes place in alternate sequences like Royal Quadrille include the two-pack, reserved builders of Odd and Even and Royal Cotillion. Games in which each suit is built on two foundations – up on one and down on the other – as in Captive Queens, include the twin-pack, reserved builder of Patriarchs and the half-open builder of Sixes and Sevens. All these loosely related games offer greater scope for decision making. Footnotes References Bibliography Arnold, Peter (2011). Card Games for One. 2nd edn. London: Chambers. Dalton, Basil (1948,64,67). The Complete Patience Book. John Baker. 234