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Fourteen Out (also known as Fourteen Off, Fourteen Puzzle, or just
Fourteen) is a solitaire card game played with a deck of 52 playing cards. As this game involves carrying off
cards with a fixed sum, it belongs to the same family of games as
Pyramid.
The cards are dealt face up into twelve columns, from left to right. The first four columns therefore receive
an extra card. The exposed top cards of each column are available for play.
As denoted by the game's name, the object is to discard pairs of cards that total fourteen. Jacks value
eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen, all others (including the ace) at face value. So the combination of
cards to be discarded are as follows:
- King and Ace
- Queen and 2
- Jack and 3
- 10 and 4
- 9 and 5
- 8 and 6
- 7 and 7
Once a card has been discarded, the card under it becomes available. The game is won when all cards are
discarded.
There are many keys you can use to make your game playing more efficient:
- Space
- Auto-finish—In foundation games, this moves all the cards it can up to the foundations
- z
- Undo
- x
- Redo
- n
- New Game
- g
- Replay the same game
- f
- Flip a card from the stock
There is also a card-finder keyboard feature you can use to help you locate cards:
- a
- Highlight the aces
- 1 though 9
- Highlight the cards with the rank pressed
- 0 or t
- Highlight the tens
- d, c, h, s
- Highlight the cards with the suit
- r, b
- Highlight the red or black cards
You may combine the rank keys with the suit or color keys. For example, if you hold down the "5" key and
the "d" key then only the 5 of diamonds will be highlighted. "a" and "r" will highlight the red aces.
There are ways to use the mouse to make your game playing more efficient:
- Left Click
- Move the card to the most logical place (might not be the best move, however)
- Left Click in Empty Area
- Auto-finish—In foundation games, this moves all the cards it can up to the foundations
- Right Click
- Undo
You can use super moves to make your game playing more efficient.
Clicking or dragging a card that isn't immediately accessible will attempt to move all the cards
above it in its stack until the move is valid. The effect will be the same as clicking each card. If you
cancel the drag or undo the move, all the cards will go back to where they were.
Dragging a card or cards to the middle of a stack will attempt to move all the cards above the
destination out of the way. The effect is the same as clicking each card. To see where the cards will
move, hold the dragged card(s) at the destination for a second. If you decide to move the dragged
card(s) somewhere else, just drag them there and the other cards will go back to where they
were. Undoing the move will also move the cards back.
If you drag a card or cards to the middle of a stack and the cards that move away would be valid to
move back on top of the dragged card(s), then they'll slide out of the way and let you just slip the
card(s) in.