How to Play Bakers Dozen Solitaire

Bakers dozen is a pile based solitaire game where you try to build up the foundation piles.

Bakers Dozen Rules

| Players: 1 | Type: Solitaire | Supplies: 1 Deck |

Objective

The objective of Baker's Dozen is to move all cards onto the foundation piles.

Setup

Deal 13 tableau piles of four cards each, splayed downwards so that all cards in a pile are visible. Move all kings to the bottom of their respective piles.

Game Play

You may only move one card at a time. Only the top card of each tableau pile is available for play, either onto another tableau pile or onto a foundation pile. Tableau piles may be built in descending order, regardless of suit. For example, there are three 7s available for play, any one of these 7s could be moved onto the 8 of hearts. When a tableau pile becomes empty, it may not be filled.

There are four foundation piles, one for each suit. Once an ace is available for play, move it above the tableau to form a foundation pile. For example, move the ace of hearts above the tableau to form an ace foundation pile. Foundation piles are built in ascending order to the king, in suit. To add a card to a foundation pile, it must be one rank higher and of the same suit as the top card of the foundation pile it is being moved to. Following the previous example, move the 2 of hearts onto the ace of hearts. The next card that can be played onto the hearts foundation pile would be the 3 of hearts, and so on until the king of hearts is reached.

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