Seven Alleys, deal #27
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About this deal
This is one of the easier deals of Seven Alleys: 92% of the quick simulated games won it, and the solver found its winning line almost at once.
The seven alleys show 2 of Coins, 3 of Coins, 5 of Batons, Cavallo of Swords, Re of Coins, 6 of Swords and Re of Swords on top; 21 cards start face down below them and 12 wait in the stock.
No Ace is free at the start.
The deepest Ace, the Ace of Swords, is covered by 5 cards in column 7.
2 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 52 moves.
Deal facts
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Solver's winning line
- 52 moves, 12 of them stock turns
- Quick simulated games won
- 184 of 200 (92%)
- Cards in the layout
- 28
- Face-down cards
- 21
- Cards in the stock
- 12
- Aces visible at the start
- 0
- Cards already in order
- 0
Where the Aces are
- Ace of Cups: column 3, 1 card on top
- Ace of Batons: column 7, 1 card on top
- Ace of Swords: column 7, 5 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 5 of Batons onto the 6 of Swords.
- Move the Cavallo of Swords onto the Re of Coins.
- Move the 2 of Coins onto the 3 of Cups.