[2] It should not be confused with the twin-pack patience game, also called Travellers.
Travellers is merely the version most commonly described in the literature since the Second World War today but is probably descended from Wandering Card.
A second row is dealt on top of the first, but this time the player counts each card as it is laid.
This continues until a pile is reached where the top card is already in its right place.
Then the next card of the laid aside pile is taken up and the process repeated until the game blocks or succeeds, whereby there will be 13 piles each with four cards of the same value and in the order A 2 3... K. The rules for the very similar game of Travellers' Patience were published in 1888 by Mary Whitmore Jones and have changed little since.
The top card of the talon is flipped and placed at the bottom of its corresponding named pile.
If the last card to be turned is on its proper pile, the game is won; if it has to be moved it is lost.
Shuttling begins with the uppermost card of the first pile (top left).
When a King appears, it is placed in a fresh pile centrally below the initial two rows and the next card taken from the reserve.
Hoffmann describes a card placed at the bottom of a pile as 'hidden' hence the name.
The first pickup is from the Ace pile; thereafter shuttling takes place as described above.