Seven Alleys, deal #20
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About this deal
This is one of the easier deals of Seven Alleys: 94% of the quick simulated games won it, and the solver found its winning line almost at once.
The seven alleys show Fante of Batons, 5 of Batons, 2 of Batons, Re of Cups, 3 of Batons, Cavallo of Coins and Ace of Coins 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.
The deepest Ace, the Ace of Swords, is covered by 3 cards in column 5.
One Re can be seen from the start – a ready base for an empty alley.
No two cards are in building order yet.
The solver's winning line has 62 moves.
Deal facts
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Solver's winning line
- 62 moves, 18 of them stock turns
- Quick simulated games won
- 189 of 200 (94%)
- 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 Coins: column 7, free at the start
- Ace of Swords: column 5, 3 cards on top
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.
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
- Move the Cavallo of Coins onto the Re of Cups.
- Move the Fante of Batons onto the Cavallo of Coins.
- Move the Re of Cups into the empty column.