<p><a href="http://www.bicyclecards.com/card-games/rule/canfield" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bicycle cards</a> lists the more restrictive rule.</p>
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<p>Any movable card or cards (from tableau, reserve, or stock) may be placed only on a card next-higher in rank and of opposite color in the tableau. Example: The  8♥ may be placed on  9♣ or  9♠. An entire pile of the tableau must be moved as a unit.</p>
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<p><a href="http://boardgames.about.com/od/solitaire/a/canfield.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Boardgames.about.com</a> also lists the more restrictive rule.
To move cards from one tableau pile to another, you may only move the entire pile.</p>

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Mike R
<p>According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_%28solitaire%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia description of Canfield</a>, "cards on the tableau are also moved one unit, provided that the entire column has to be moved". In other words, this suggests that if you move a sequence of cards from one column to another, that sequence must constitute the entire column being moved, rather than an arbitrary number of cards from the bottom of a column.</p>

<p>However, I can't find any other reference to this restriction. In other books of card games I have referenced, they seem to imply simply that arbitrary valid sequences can be moved from one column to another. Can anybody provide a source for the more restrictive version of the rule mentioned in the Wikipedia article?</p>

<p>(My question is hence similar to <a href="https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/15051/klondike-solitaire-moving-partial-sequences-between-columns">this question referring to movement in Klondike</a>, but applied to Canfield.)</p>

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http://greenfelt.net/canfield doesn't allow partial-column movements.
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Canfield solitaire: moving partial sequences
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# Canfield solitaire: moving partial sequences

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-23)

According to the [Wikipedia description of Canfield](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_%28solitaire%29), "cards on the tableau are also moved one unit, provided that the entire column has to be moved". In other words, this suggests that if you move a sequence of cards from one column to another, that sequence must constitute the entire column being moved, rather than an arbitrary number of cards from the bottom of a column.

However, I can't find any other reference to this restriction. In other books of card games I have referenced, they seem to imply simply that arbitrary valid sequences can be moved from one column to another. Can anybody provide a source for the more restrictive version of the rule mentioned in the Wikipedia article?

(My question is hence similar to [this question referring to movement in Klondike](https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/15051/klondike-solitaire-moving-partial-sequences-between-columns), but applied to Canfield.)

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> **username_1**: http://greenfelt.net/canfield doesn't allow partial-column movements.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-08-12. Score: 3

[Bicycle cards](http://www.bicyclecards.com/card-games/rule/canfield) lists the more restrictive rule.

> Building
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> Any movable card or cards (from tableau, reserve, or stock) may be placed only on a card next-higher in rank and of opposite color in the tableau. Example: The 8♥ may be placed on 9♣ or 9♠. An entire pile of the tableau must be moved as a unit.

[Boardgames.about.com](http://boardgames.about.com/od/solitaire/a/canfield.htm) also lists the more restrictive rule.
To move cards from one tableau pile to another, you may only move the entire pile.


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