Seven Alleys, deal #13
HardChecked as winnableShuffling the cards…
About this deal
This is one of the harder deals of Seven Alleys: only 0% of the quick simulated games won it, and the solver had to search for a while before finding the way.
The seven alleys show Ace of Cups, Re of Cups, 3 of Batons, 6 of Cups, Re of Coins, 6 of Swords and Re of Batons on top; 21 cards start face down below them and 12 wait in the stock.
One Ace is free at once and can go straight home.
3 Re can be seen from the start – each of them is a ready base for an empty alley.
No two cards are in building order yet.
The solver's winning line has 49 moves.
Deal facts
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Solver's winning line
- 49 moves, 21 of them stock turns
- Quick simulated games won
- 0 of 200 (0%)
- Cards in the layout
- 28
- Face-down cards
- 21
- Cards in the stock
- 12
- Aces visible at the start
- 1
- Cards already in order
- 0
Where the Aces are
- Ace of Cups: column 1, free at the start
How to approach it
- Uncover the face-down cards in the longest alleys first; that is where the buried Aces wait.
- Keep an alley clearable for a Re – it turns the longest column into a run you can move as a whole.
- This is a hard deal: use undo to test an idea, and the hint button if you are completely stuck.
A winning start
These are the first moves of the solver's winning line. Open them only if you want a nudge.
Show the first three moves
- Turn a card from the stock.
- Move the Re of Batons into the empty column.
- Move the 3 of Batons onto the 4 of Swords.