Presently a deuce will be covered by a king for which no space is ready, a dark queen will be buried under a succession of smaller cards, crowding along with apparent carelessness, but relentlessly.

Now a space is opened for the king that covers the deuce, but the king has meantime been covered by an insignificant but unmanageable four-spot, and cannot be reached.

The game is not so absurdly easy as it promised to be.

Still it may be won by clever playing.

There follow eight cards that prove to be immovable, and the issue is almost in doubt.