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You may legitimately grumble that Spite and Malice (also known as Cat and Mouse) is wholly out of place on the Solitaire roster. Not only does it technically not count as a Solitaire, even though its play is similar, but it also doesn’t feature a single deck of cards. No matter: Spite and Malice is one of the finest competitive card games I know.

You can play the game with any number of card decks; surprisingly, it really doesn’t matter whether the decks are complete or not. The alternative is to play with just two decks, but that leads to unnecessary reshuffling. You generally play the game with two players, although in theory there’s no player limitation. It works for three or four players equally well or as a partnership game with four.

The object of Spite and Malice is very similar to Canfield (see the section “Reserving Your Time for Canfield,” earlier in this chapter): You have a reserve pile that you want to get rid of before your opponent can.