Thoughts: This is an excellent game that gives real room for skill. Building within the tableau happens downwards regardless of suit, and sequences can be moved. The goal is to play all the cards to the four foundations by suit from Ace through King.
The starting tableau consists of eight columns, four with 7 cards and four with 6 cards. Overview: While Canister also has elements reminiscent of FreeCell (minus the reserve cells) and Klondike (minus the draw pile), it is arguably closest to the Beleaguered Castle family since it is an open game where all the cards are dealt face up. You may also want to try a variation called Stewart, which makes the game harder.
Even so, it's quite straight forward to win the vast majority of games, and there is enough scope for decision making to make it rewarding, while still having a casual and relaxed feel. The rule about not allowing sequences to be moved to empty piles without a single card being placed there first is also a good one, because this also prevents the game being overly simple. If you could see all the cards at the outset, the game actually becomes less interesting and too easy. The fact that you don't have perfect information is exactly the feature that makes it fun, because there are surprises in store which you're trying to uncover. Thoughts: Like Baker's Dozen and its close relatives ( Bisley being the most well known), this game is quite easy to win. You can build down on the tableau in alternating colours, with sequences being able to be freely moved within the tableau, except onto an empty pile, which must first have a single card placed there. The rest of the deck is dealt into 12 tableau piles of four cards each, the second and fourth card of each pile being face down. The goal is to play all the cards in order of suit to the foundations, which begin with all four Aces. Overview: Martha is in the Baker's Dozen family, a single-deck game somewhat similar to the very difficult to complete Beleaguered Castle. If you like Baker's Dozen, you should try Martha
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NB: To play these, I've used and recommend the excellent software from BVS Solitaire. Certainly if you like the original, you owe it to yourself to try these close cousins. And in many cases, the game I'm suggesting you try is at least as good or even better than the more well-known game of the family. Each of these is a builder game, and uses just a single deck. In this article, I'll introduce you to a lesser known game from each of a dozen main families of solitaire games. In fact, within each of these families there are some excellent games that arguably even surpass the game that stands at its head, and are at least as rewarding and fun to play. Each of these solitaire games represents a genre of its own, and interestingly the named game isn't necessarily the best of its kind. Perhaps you have explored some solitaire games outside of classic Klondike, so you may already be familiar with some of the other popular "families" of builder games, like FreeCell, Spider, Canfield, and Yukon. Many two-deck builder games offer a longer and more thoughtful playing experience, but builder games like Klondike that use just a single deck are ideal time fillers.
It is the archetype of the classic builder solitaire game. Klondike is the classic game that everyone is familiar with from Microsoft Windows, where you're building cards down in value in alternating red and black colours, while simultaneously trying to play the entire deck from Ace through King by suit onto four foundations. Most people are familiar with solitaire, and identify it with Klondike.
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