the top card is face up and available while the ones beneath are face down. pair Two cards of the same rank. patience The name of a type of card game, usually for one player, in Britain and many other countries. pile A stack of cards one on top of the other and squared such that only the topmost card, whether face up or face down is visible. pips The spots on the cards; that is, the figures of clubs, diamonds, etc. play (a card, cards) To place (a card) on the foundations in contradistinction to placing them elsewhere. To take up and use it in the game for building, packing or filling a space as opposed to discarding it to a wastepile. R rank The value or denomination of a card. red (suits) The suits of Hearts and Diamonds. redeal, re-deal When the stock is empty, to take the wastepile, turn it over, and use it to reform the stock. Sometimes it must be shuffled. A second or follow-on deal. released cards Those that, by the removal of the cards that blocked them, have now become available. reserve Cards available for play that are not part of the foundations, talon, tableau or discard piles. reversing In two-pack patiences, when it is allowed to build sequences simultaneously, ascending on Ace foundations and descending on King foundations, so that when the tops cards of two foundations are in sequence (e.g. a Six and a Seven), cards may be transferred from one to the other. row A line of cards placed side by side. May or may not be overlapped. rubbish heap, rubbish-heap See wastepile. S sequence, ascending sequence, descending sequence A cascade, pile or row of cards in order of rank. Often the aim is to form a full sequence in each suit, typically from Ace (low) to King (high). The regular succession of cards ascending from Ace to King or descending from King to Ace; a sequence need not be of one suit. shuttling A feature in some games whereby placing a card under an existing pile releases the top card which must be now played next. See, e.g. Travellers and its variants. singleton A single care of any suit. solitaire North American name for games of patience. space A gap in the tableau due to the removal of a singleton card or a pile of cards. Same as vacancy.