# Colours (card game) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Colours_(card_game) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Colours_(card_game).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colours_(card_game) > Source revision: 1214728248 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Solitaire card game This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (July 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **Colours** is a [patience or card solitaire](/source/Patience_or_card_solitaire) game which is played using a single pack of [playing cards](/source/Playing_card). It is in the same family as [Sir Tommy](/source/Sir_Tommy), [Strategy](/source/Strategy_(solitaire)), and [Calculation](/source/Calculation_(solitaire)). Colours is so called because of its emphasis on colour. The game is a variation of **Lady Betty**. ## Rules The cards are [shuffled](/source/Shuffled), then [dealt](/source/Dealt_(patience_term)) out one by one onto the [foundations](/source/Foundations_(patience_term)) or onto one of six [waste piles](/source/Waste_pile), the [top cards](/source/Top_card) of which are [available](/source/Available_(patience_term)) for [building](/source/Building_(patience_term)) *only* on the foundations. A two, a three, a four, and a five are needed to start the foundations. The [deuce](/source/Deuce_(playing_card)) and the four should be of one [colour](/source/Colour_(patience_term)) (regardless of [suit](/source/Suit_(patience_term))) and the [trey](/source/Trey_(playing_card)) and the five be of the other colour. Naturally, the colour of the first [foundation card](/source/Foundation_card) that turns up during dealing dictates the colours of the other cards. The foundations are [built up](/source/Built_up) by colour. Dealing of cards from the [stock](/source/Stock_(patience_term)) continues until the stock runs out. The game is [out](/source/Out_(patience_term)) when all of the cards are built onto the foundations, which should have an ace, a deuce, a trey, and a four on top. ## Variations **Lady Betty** is more like [Sir Tommy](/source/Sir_Tommy) in that it requires you to build the foundations by suit rather than colour, but like Colours it gives two extra [tableau](/source/Tableau_(patience_term)) [piles](/source/Piles_(patience_term)) to work with. ## See also - [Sir Tommy](/source/Sir_Tommy) - [List of solitaires](/source/List_of_solitaires) - [Glossary of solitaire](/source/Glossary_of_solitaire) ## Sources - Dalton, Basil. *The Complete Patience Book* - Hervey, George F. *Enjoying Card Games for One* - Parlett, David. *The Penguin Book of Patience* [Colorfle Game](https://colorflegame.com/) v t e Solitaire (patience) by type - (list, glossary) Closed games Simple builders Amazons Auld Lang Syne Birthday The Clock Clock Cotillion (Contradance) Leoni's Own Musical (Betsy Ross, Fairest, Four Kings, Plus Belle, Quadruple Alliance) Precedence Quadrille (La Française; Captive Queens) Reserved builders Carpet Eagle Wing Golf Duchess of Luynes (Grand Duchess) Queen's/King's Audience Matrimony Monte Carlo Moojub Odd and Even Patriarchs Pyramid Royal Cotillion Royal Rendezvous Sultan (Emperor of Germany) Tri Peaks Windmill Simple packers Batsford Big Ben British Constitution British Square Congress Corona Deauville Deuces Diplomat Emperor Following Fortune's Favor Four Seasons Gargantua Herring-Bone Klondike Napoleon at St Helena (Forty Thieves) Napoleon's Square Red and Black Westcliff Reserved packers Acme Alhambra American Toad Backbone Canfield Casket Crazy Quilt Duchess Gate The Plot Queen of Italy (Terrace) Seven Devils Closed non-builders Accordion Aces Up Baroness (Five Piles, Thirteens) Decade Eight Cards Elevens Frustration Good Thirteen Herz zu Herz Hit or Miss Hope Deferred Nidgi Novgorod Perpetual Motion (Narcotic) Royal Flush Royal Marriage Travellers (Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Hide & Seek, Spoilt, Wandering Card) Half-open games Builders Interregnum Royal Parade Tournament Virginia Reel Blockades Babette British Blockade Labyrinth Planners Calculation Colorado Colours Cribbage Squares Frog Imaginary Thirteen Jubilee Poker Squares Puss in the Corner Rosamund's Bower Sir Tommy Packers Agnes Algerian Blockade Box Kite Bristol Four Corners Heads and Tails Intelligence Martha Miss Milligan Mount Olympus Pyramide Russian Solitaire St. Helena Stonewall Yukon Zodiac Spiders German Patience Rouge et Noir Scorpion Simple Simon Spider Open games Open builders Archway Black Hole Crescent Intrigue Salic Law Stalactites Open packers Baker's Dozen Baker's Game Beleaguered Castle Bisley Capricieuse Eight Off Flower Garden (Bouquet) Fortress FreeCell Grandfather's Clock House in the Woods King Albert La Belle Lucie Mrs. Mop Päckchen Penguin Persian Russian Patience Seahaven Towers Shamrocks Open non-builders Fourteen Out Gaps (Montana) Gay Gordons (Exit) Maze Nestor Competitive games Australian Patience Double Klondike (Double Solitaire) Kings in the Corner Nerts (Pounce, Racing Demon) Russian Bank (Crapette) Speed Spite and Malice Spit This card game–related article is a stub. 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