Beleaguered castle

Beleaguered Castle is a patience or solitaire card game played with a deck of 52 playing cards.[3][4] It is sometimes described as "Freecell without cells" because its game play is somewhat akin to the popular solitaire computer game of that name but without extra empty spaces to maneuver. Beleaguered Castle is also called Laying Siege and Sham Battle.[5]Quick Facts Origin, Named variants ...Beleaguered CastleA Patience gameOriginUSNamed variantsCastle of Indolence, Citadel, Streets and Alleys, FortressTypeOpen packerFamilyCastleDeckSingle 52-cardPlaying time15 min[1]Odds of winning68% with perfect play[2]CloseBeleaguered Castle is first recorded by Dick in 1883 and has been a regular feature in games compendia since then.[6]First, the player removes the aces from the deck and aligns them vertically without overlapping them to form the foundations. Then cards are dealt to the left and right of the aces, forming eight rows of six overlapping cards each, in a distinctive tableau layout with wings on either side of the foundations.The initial layout in Beleaguered CastleThe top card of each row (the exposed card) is available for play either on the foundations or on any other row. The foundations are built up to kings by suit. Cards in the rows are built down in sequence regardless of suit. Once a row becomes empty, it can be filled by any card.[7]The game is won when all of the cards are built onto the foundations.The following are cited as variants by Parlett:[8]Citadel, in which any card can be dealt onto the foundations during dealing. The other cards that aren't built are played as in Beleaguered Castle.Fortress (or Fort) and the closely related Chessboard (or Fives) both have five rows on each side of the foundations and allow building of sequences up and down in the same suit.Streets and Alleys, where the aces are included in the shuffling, resulting in the rows at the left of the foundations having seven cards each.[9]Castle of Indolence is another game recorded only by Dick (1883, 85) which has some similarities to Beleaguered Castle. It is played with two decks (and hence eight foundations). Cards can be moved to the foundations regardless of suit.

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The title of this page is conjecture based on information revealed in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels or related material and may be subject to change.Aegon: "Yield now, and you may remain as Lord of the Iron Islands. Yield now, and your sons will live to rule after you. You see my army outside your walls, you see my dragons."Harren: "What is outside my walls is of no concern. Those walls are strong and thick."Aegon: "Dragons fly."Harren: "[laughs] But stone doesn't burn."Aegon: "When the sun sets, your line shall end."— Aegon I Targaryen and Harren Hoare at the gate of Harrenhal.[src]The burning of Harrenhal[b] was a major engagement in Aegon's Conquest, in which Aegon the Conqueror used his dragon Balerion the Black Dread to burn the great castle of Harrenhal.History[]Background[]King Harren Hoare's grandfather led the Ironborn to conquer the Riverlands, previously occupied by the Stormlands. The Ironborn cared nothing for the inhabitants of the mainland, and their rule was brutal and tyrannical - far more than any previous occupier. To consolidate their hold on the Riverlands, Harren's grandfather commissioned construction of a great fortress on the northern shore of the Gods Eye lake, in the very heart of the region. The largest and greatest fortress ever built in Westeros, it took three generations to finish. The Ironborn broke the backs of the Rivermen in forced labor to complete an instrument for their own domination. The great castle was finally finished in King Harren's time, and he arrogantly named it "Harrenhal" after himself. On the very same day that the last brick was laid, however, Aegon Targaryen and his sisters landed with their army from Dragonstone at the mouth of the Blackwater River, along with their three dragons.While Aegon sent his siblings and their dragons to pursue other objectives, he advanced towards Harrenhal with his own force, astride his great dragon Balerion. At the sight of Aegon's arrival, the beleaguered River lords revolted against the Ironborn, led by Edmyn Tully of Riverrun. The Rivermen joined their army to Aegon's, swelling his ranks (though it is said that House Frey offered no help, instead waiting inside their castle and caring only about their own safety). Their combined force then reached Harrenhal.Siege[]Because Westeros had never experienced dragon-based warfare, Harren remained confident that the massive walls of Harrenhal would withstand any attack. Indeed, it is said that a million men could have marched against Harrenhal and a million men would have been repulsed. Harrenhal was designed to withstand an attack by land, however, and dragons can fly.Burning[] Aegon simply flew his dragon right over the walls, and blasted the castle with fire. When Harren refused to capitulate, Aegon simply rode Balerion right over the walls, and proceeded to roast Harren and his sons alive within their own tower, rendering House Hoare extinct. The entire castle was blasted with dragon-fire, its once-grand walls and towers left partially ruined and half-melted.Aftermath[] Balerion roasted Harren and all of his sons in their own tower.

Has only ever worked once, with Captain Stevens. It isn’t entirely clear how much the project has messed with Captain Steven’s brain (or mind). He is conditioned to respond to certain cues (namely a specific passage about a woman and a bunch of playing cards, which help him recover from mental disruptions and memory wipes). He appears to retain most of his own memory of his own life and sense of self, except the part about being killed in Afghanistan, but his relationship with reality is frayed. At times (especially before we see his physical body) it seems possible that some manner of mental degradation might collapse the project and erase him from existence (“kill him,” although for most of the movie the word would seem too vague to apply appropriately).Being trapped in the freezing cold room is a manifestation of Captain Stevens's fraying link with existence. Feel good movie of the year.While wrestling with all this between trips into the memories of the deceased – and communicating findings back to “Beleaguered Castle,” the source code project’s home base, this dead-but-not-technically dead person perceives himself in a form of Plato’s Cave:In this space, which is depicted as a vaguely military escape pod or crashed aircraft cockpit, Captain Stevens, we are told, manifests his surroundings, and even his body, as familiar enough to him that he can cope with his situation. The government communicates with him by viewscreens – those are the “shadows on the wall” that Gyllenhaal perceives as real, but which offer only a distorted idea of what his situation in the world really is.Between 8-minute work periods.The prisoners in Plato’s allegory of the cave have been in there long enough to not have a memory of what the “real world” was like. This raises the question of what