Diabolical Solitaire

The hardest solitaire you'll ever love. Devil's Six is a two-deck patience game built around one brutal mechanic: six cards dealt face-up at the start that can only be played to the foundations — and only in order, right to left. Until you free them, they sit there, mocking you. Clearing all six is the heart of the game. A GAME FORGED IN WARTIME During the darkest nights of World War II, a minister of Belgium's government-in-exile taught Winston Churchill a demanding two-deck patience game from the Belgian card tradition. Churchill made it harder — locking six cards away so the game would fight back — and played it through the Blitz to keep his mind sharp while the war's great problems turned over in the back of his mind. Reporters later called it "the most diabolical solitaire ever devised." The name fits. This is a modern, independent revival of that game, built from the rules up for…