Playing Baker's Game

by redllar

Winning

The game is won when all of the cards are moved to the Foundation, with a pile built for each card suit type, and with each pile in Ace to King rank order.

The Layout

The Deal

8 Tableau piles are created by dealing cards from the hidden Stock. Each pile is dealt one face up card at a time until all cards have been dealt.

Game Play

You may move any uncovered Ace to any empty Foundation pile.

You may move any uncovered card to the top of a Foundation pile if that card is of the same suit and is next in ascending rank order.

You may move any uncovered card to any empty Tableau pile.

You may move any uncovered card to any empty Reserve pile.

You may move any stack of cards from a Tableau pile to the end of another Tableau pile if the first card in the moved stack of cards is of the same suit and is next in descending rank order, or if the destination Tableau pile is empty. The stack of cards must also be of the same suit and be in descending rank order. For hard play, this type of move is further restricted to a stack of cards that may have been moved one at a time, using the available empty Tableau and Reserve piles or "free cells" to perform the moves.

Notes

Moves from a Foundation pile to a Tableau or a Reserve pile are allowed.

Decks

1 deck.

Difficulty

Easy play is fairly easy. Hard play is fairly hard.

Strategy

Try to keep as many empty cells as possible. Unlike FreeCell, it is also a good strategy to attempt to move all of the cards of a given suit to the Foundation as quickly as possible.

Easy Play

You may move any sized stack of correctly ordered Tableau cards, regardless of whether there are enough free cells to allow the move.

Hard Play

You may only move a stack of correctly ordered Tableau cards that may have been moved one at a time, using the available free cells to perform the moves.