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and the other ♢2 on the ♧3, giving him two spaces. The
♢4, ♤2, ♢3, ♢J, ♧10, ♡9
can all be played on the sequences. The ♤10, the last card of his stock, goes into a space. Before turning the spade ten, he might have used the two spaces to separate the ♢3 and ♧4, so as to get out the ♢5, but in case he lost the lead, that might give his opponent a chance to run off all his diamonds from his discard pile. As long as the ♢5 is not uncovered, it is not compulsory to play it on the foundations, and the player cannot be compelled to uncover it, if he does not wish to do so.
His stock being exhausted, the player turns the top card from his hand (the pile of cards remaining face down on his left). If the sort-
