Dollartaire
Try to withdraw as much money from the bank before it closes.
Quick Facts:
Single Player
3-5 minutes per round
Medium Difficulty
Objective: Accumulate as much cash as possible in your wallet.
2. How to Play
1. Set Up
In this solitaire game the goal is to take as much money from the bank through the actions below and put it in your wallet before it becomes impossible to do so, meaning “the bank is closed.”
General actions (that do not move money from the bank to your stack):
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You only play cards that are face up.
Shuffle deck well and deal out all the cards to create 6 even stacks (of 8 cards) with the top cards turned over, this represents the bank.
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You can only lay cards in denominational order from highest to lowest in a cascading fashion. You are NOT allowed to skip a bill in the order. For example, you are allowed to create a cascade $20>$10>$5>$1, but NOT $50>$20>$5>$1 because the $10 is missing from the order.
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You can move a single card, or an entire cascade onto a higher card as long as it is the next bill higher. For example, you can move a $10 onto a $20 to form the short cascade $20>$10. And you are allowed to move the cascade $20>$10>$5 on top of a $50 to create a longer cascade. However, you are not allowed to place a $5 on top of a $20 because the $10 is missing.
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When you move a card or cascade from a stack and it reveals a down-facing card, simply turn the top card over and place it on top of the stack and continue playing.
The 3 ways to put money from the bank into your wallet:
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Take a $100 that is face up on the bank and collect $100 worth of cards that are also face up in the bank thus placing $200 in your wallet. For example, you play a $100 and take a lone $50 from one stack, and a $20>$10>$5 cascade plus a $10>$5 cascade from two other stacks and put $200 in your wallet. Or simply a $100 can take another $100.
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Take a $50 that is face up on the bank and collect $50 worth of cards that are also face up in the bank thus placing $100 in your wallet. For example, you play a $50 and take a $20>$10>$5 cascade plus a $10>$5 cascade. Or simply a $50 can take another $50.
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Combine a $100 and a $1 from the bank and secure $101 in your wallet.
Special notes:
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When using a $100 or a $50 to take cash from the bank, you can take as much or as little from each cascade as you like, however, you must take the entire bottom portion of a cascade. For example, if you have a cascade of $20>$10>$5 and you’d like to use only the $20 and $10 from this cascade, you are NOT allowed to do so; the $5 is blocking you. If you have a cascade ending in a $1, it blocks you every time.
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Similarly, you can only combine a $1 with an “open $100.” If a $100 is the start of a cascade, for example, $100>$50>$20, you are NOT allowed to pull the $100 out from the top of its cascade to combine it with a $1.
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There are 6 starting stacks, if one of the stacks is depleted completely. You are only allowed to shift over a $100 card to create a new stack to bring the total back to 6 positions. You may have fewer stacks as the game progresses, however, you are never allowed to shift over a $100 during the game to increase the stacks beyond 6.
Continue playing until it is impossible to make any more moves. When that happens, the game is over. Time to count up your cash.
3. Scoring
After the game is over count all the cash in your wallet:
$0 to $498 = Poor House
$500 to $998 = Middle Class
$1,000 or more = Upper Crust