Seven Alleys, deal #3
HardChecked as winnableShuffling the cards…
About this deal
This is one of the harder deals of Seven Alleys: only 10% of the quick simulated games won it, and the solver had to search for a while before finding the way.
The seven alleys show 2 of Cups, Fante of Swords, Fante of Cups, 7 of Coins, 6 of Cups, 5 of Batons and Re of Coins 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 Coins, is covered by 5 cards in column 6.
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 78 moves.
Deal facts
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Solver's winning line
- 78 moves, 30 of them stock turns
- Quick simulated games won
- 20 of 200 (10%)
- 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 Swords: column 2, 1 card on top
- Ace of Batons: column 5, 4 cards on top
- Ace of Coins: column 6, 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.
- 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
- Move the 7 of Coins onto the Fante of Swords.
- Move the 6 of Cups onto the 7 of Coins.
- Move the 5 of Batons onto the 6 of Cups.