Iraqi Most Wanted, Card Games

The game consists in grouping all cards into four piles, each pile containing only one suit of the pack: the cards must be placed face up and arranged from ace to king.
The cards are distributed in seven columns so that, from left to right, the first has only one card, the second has two, the third has three, and so on. Initially, only the last card of each column will be face up, the others will be concealed.


A Iraquis fifty-two-card pack is distributed into eight columns (four with seven cards each and the remaining four columns with six). All cards are placed face up. At the same time, there are four cells on which any card may be freely placed The purpose of the game is to group all the cards into four piles, in suits, from ace to king.

The aim is to remove a determined number of cards and to form groups with a total sum of values each equal to twenty-one.
The value of all picture cards (J, Q and K) is ten; the remaining cards keep their face value.
The cards the player wishes to place on any of the five columns initially available will be taken from the balance
When the total sum of values of the cards in a column is equal to twenty-one, all cards here will be removed.


Twenty-eight cards will be distributed on the board, apart from the balance (eighteen face down and concealed, and ten face up and visible), forming a structure that represents three towers. The player may remove from the board all those cards with an immediately higher or lower value than the card that has just been taken from the balance, or the card removed from the board immediately before.

Twenty-two cards from a standard pack are distributed on the board; the aim is for the player to remove a determined number of cards, which will vary depending on the degree of difficulty. To remove cards from the board, the rule is to obtain a sum of values equal to eleven. The value of all picture cards is ten; the remaining cards keep their face value. To remove a card, it must be placed face up, i.e. it cannot have another card on top.