He thought about the nameless game of solitaire and considered its merits. He’d already determined that it definitely took up the most room of any of the variants he knew. And, while that was normally a negative factor, it was a positive one in this case. He liked the idea that he could take up as much room as he wanted to. In fact, he practically luxuriated in it. The wide expanse of his bed was more than enough for him to play any variant that he might wish to play, twice over even. He briefly considered that idea, but rejected it relatively quickly because it wouldn’t be practical for him to do so. He would already be dividing his attention between playing his game of solitaire and watching his movie; he didn’t need to add any more distractions. In fact, he wasn’t sure he’d be able to handle any more distractions than he was already engaged in.
He then turned his thoughts back to the nameless variant. The rules for it were straightforward enough that he shouldn’t have any problems in that area. All he had to do was put the cards down and start moving them according to numerical order. That shouldn’t be hard for him since he’d been able to count past thirteen from an early age and that had been a long time ago, in his reckoning. And, considering he would only have four slots to choose from when it came to moving his cards, he wouldn’t have to worry about an overload of possible moves. And that would also go toward making it a rather easy variant for him to play, even though he wasn’t feeling his best.
He tried to think of any significant negative reasons for playing this variant. He thought there was a limit to the number of times he could pick up, shuffle, and replay the cards, but that shouldn’t be too hard to keep track of. He could easily use the aces to count the number of times he ran through the deck by putting them in a different order for each time he went through the deck. All in all, he couldn’t think of any major detractors for this variant, and he could for the other ones that he’d thought of, so he was pretty sure he would play the nameless variation. He just had to set it up and then he’d be ready to go.
