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When moving the cards, you frequently have to be careful to make the plays in the correct order to set up more plays. You may have a choice of moves, but you may not be sure which move to execute first. Look at a possible scenario in Figure 2-3.

After you turn up the ♥4, you can place it on the ♥9, which opens up a series of moves that you can play. The best option is to move the ♥4 onto the ♠4 and then move the rest of the cards into their new spaces.

Because the ♠K is three cards away from the ♣K, you can combine the two cards and then move the ♥4 onto the ♥J. Now the ♦9 is three cards away from the ♦Q, so you can combine those two cards.

If you move the ♥4 before you move the ♠K, you miss out on two possible moves.

Making an available play isn’t always mandatory. When you can choose between possible moves, play a couple more cards to help you decide which move is superior.

Figure 2-4 shows you how waiting can help you make up your mind when you have a choice.

FIGURE 2-3: Look ahead to see which move to make first.

At this point, you may not know whether to put the ♠A on the ♣A or on the ♠K because your piles don’t indicate whether you should keep aces or kings on top of your piles.

FIGURE 2-4: Playing the waiting game can help you make up your mind.

If several piles have kings on the top, you may want to avoid hiding the ♠K. Instead of jumping the gun, you turn over another card to see what happens, which turns out to be the ♠J.

Now you can see daylight: Put the ♠J on the ♠A and then on the ♠K, and then you put the ♠J on the ♥J. Now you can combine the 9s. Next, put the ♠4 on the ♠J, allowing the ♣A to go on the ♣K and the ♦9 to go on the ♦Q. Put the ♠4 on the ♠7 to move down to three piles. Wasn’t that fun? Getting a series of moves to come together like that makes up for the hundreds of unexciting plays you go through.

Play continues until you end up with one pile of cards — good luck!