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Overview

Labyrinth is a patience or card solitaire game which uses a pack of 52 playing cards. Despite the fact that the word labyrinth is synonymous with maze, this game is very different in its manner of play and dealing from the game of Maze, and should not be confused with it. Labyrinth does however have similar play to the game of Babette – both being blockades – and the spatial puzzle in which cards become available is also reminiscent of Crazy Quilt. History Labyrinth is first described in 1905 by "Tarbart". It has since appeared sporadically in British compendia right up to 2014, but Alphonse Moyse (1950) is the only American author to include it in a publication. Rules The player first takes the four Aces out of the pack and lays them down as the foundations. Then eight cards are laid in a row below these four cards. The cards on this row can be built on the foundations up by suit to Kings. Any gap is immediately filled by a card from the stock. Once no more moves can be made, a new row of eight cards is formed. However, once any card leaves the second row to the foundations, it is not filled; filling gaps by new cards only applies to the first row.

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Notable quotes

“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
— Simón Bolívar, in a statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words, and portrayed as such in The General in His Labyrinth (1990) by Gabriel García Márquez, as translated by Edith Grossman, p. 267
“A labyrinth of symbols… An invisible labyrinth of time.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "The Garden of Forking Paths" in The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
“There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
“I wanted to create a labyrinth which would somehow help to prevent a compositional idea from establishing itself all too quickly. I had the idea of working on all the walls pretty well at the same time,as if they were one large painting completely surrounding me. By constantly wandering in the labyrinth I sought to realise a form of “de-composition””
— Günter Brus, in Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
— Marcel Marceau, as quoted in Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”
— Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (2003)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
— Simón Bolívar, in a statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words, and portrayed as such in The General in His Labyrinth (1990) by Gabriel García Márquez, as translated by Edith Grossman, p. 267
“A labyrinth of symbols… An invisible labyrinth of time.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "The Garden of Forking Paths" in The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
“There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
“I wanted to create a labyrinth which would somehow help to prevent a compositional idea from establishing itself all too quickly. I had the idea of working on all the walls pretty well at the same time,as if they were one large painting completely surrounding me. By constantly wandering in the labyrinth I sought to realise a form of “de-composition””
— Günter Brus, in Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
— Marcel Marceau, as quoted in Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”
— Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (2003)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Labyrinth is a patience or card solitaire game which uses a pack of 52 playing cards. Despite the fact that the word labyrinth is synonymous with maze, this game is very different in its manner of play and dealing from the game of Maze, and should not be confused with it. Labyrinth does however have similar play to the game of Babette – both being blockades – and the spatial puzzle in which cards become available is also reminiscent of Crazy Quilt. History Labyrinth is first described in 1905 by "Tarbart". It has since appeared sporadically in British compendia right up to 2014, but Alphonse Moyse (1950) is the only American author to include it in a publication. Rules The player first takes the four Aces out of the pack and lays them down as the foundations. Then eight cards are laid in a row below these four cards. The cards on this row can be built on the foundations up by suit to Kings. Any gap is immediately filled by a card from the stock. Once no more moves can be made, a new row of eight cards is formed. However, once any card leaves the second row to the foundations, it is not filled; filling gaps by new cards only applies to the first row.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Labyrinth is a patience or card solitaire game which uses a pack of 52 playing cards. Despite the fact that the word labyrinth is synonymous with maze, this game is very different in its manner of play and dealing from the game of Maze, and should not be confused with it. Labyrinth does however have similar play to the game of Babette – both being blockades – and the spatial puzzle in which cards become available is also reminiscent of Crazy Quilt.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Labyrinth: usually a system of narrow corridors designed to confuse tho · 1986 film directed by Jim Henson · 1959 film by Rolf Thiele · 1980 video game

Labyrinth across IJR

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