Four Seasons (card game)

It is also known as Corner Card and Vanishing Cross, due to the arrangement of the foundations and the tableau respectively.

[2] Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith rate the odds of successfully completing Four Seasons as 1 in 10.

[3] It should not be confused with another simple packer, Fortune's Favor, which was originally also called The Four Seasons.

The rules were first published in 1883 by Dick under the name The Four Seasons which used a 3 x 3 card layout, the foundations being the four corners.

[7] The following rules are based on Dick (1883):[4] The layout comprises three rows of three depots, within which there is a tableau of five cards in a cruciform and a foundation at each corner.

The tableau is then examined and any marriages made by moving a card onto another one that is one higher in rank.

A sixth card is dealt in the upper left corner of the cross.

Four Seasons - the initial layout. The ♥ 6, as the first (or sixth) card dealt, forms the first foundation. As others appear they will go in the remaining corners.
If won, the final layout would look something like this, assuming Sixes were the base cards