...a.k.a. Roosevelt at San Juan, Big Forty, Le Cadran, and Napoleon at St Helena (but that name is occupied in SoliLuxe by another game of the same name).

The "forty thieves" are the cards dealt face-up on the Tableau at the start of the game. This is a game that has generated a huge amount of epigones and variations — Limited, Maria, Rank And File and Number Ten to mention but a few.

The game is often frustrating, but has its wonderful moments of "pulling back from the brink of disaster", where you suddenly can retrieve a massive amount of cards from the Waste and win the game just when you thought all was lost.

Although this is strictly a "move one card at a time" game, SoliLuxe makes it possible to move columns of cards provided enough free empty spaces exist on the Tableau to do the same move one card at a time.

This game is also mentioned in the description of:
Robber's Cave and Somerset.