Nestor is a patience or solitaire card game played with a single deck of standard playing cards. The object is the removal of pairs of cards with the same value from a layout of six rows of eight face-up cards and four additional face-up cards.

Rules

As described in Louis Hoffmann's book The Illustrated Book of Patience Games (1892), Nestor is played as follows:

Variations

Several variations exist. One alternative rule in this game is after the eight columns are dealt, the reserve cards are placed as one overlapping row and the top card is the only one available for play. In the variant Vertical, seven columns of six cards each are dealt, with a reserve of 10 cards. With fewer buried cards, this increases the odds of winning. In the variant Doublets, twelve columns of four cards each are dealt, with a reserve of four cards.