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You can’t move cards from one waste-pile to another. After a card is on one pile, you can
move it only to the foundation. And just because a waste-pile is empty doesn’t entitle you to
move cards from another waste-pile into the gap.
You arrange the waste-piles so you can see all the lower cards in them to maximize your strategic
planning.
Kings are exceptionally bad news in Calculation. They’re always the last cards to go on each of
the foundation piles, and when you put them on the waste-pile, they can easily block everything
beneath them. In a strange way, it’s good to turn up kings at the beginning of the game — you can
put them on the bottom of each of the waste-piles or put them all together in one pile.
As a general rule, try to keep one waste-pile reserved for the kings. However, if two or
three kings appear early, it’s a reasonable gamble to use all four piles and not keep one for
the kings.
Figure 2-5 shows an example of the start of a game. Having selected your ace, 2, 3, and 4 from the
deck, you start turning over the cards one at a time.
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FIGURE 2-5: A sample game of Calculation.
Try to construct lines in the waste-piles in reverse. For example, if your 4 pile is lagging
because you’re waiting for a queen, and you put a 7 on a jack on a waste-pile, put a 3 on top
of the 7 if it comes up. You hope that when the queen emerges, you can put the 3, 7, and jack
on at one time and advance matters efficiently.