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This is a variant of the solitaire "Gaps", a.k.a. "Montana". Its overall goal is to arrange all cards (except the aces) in suit from left (2) to right (King), with one row for each suite. My father taught me the rules when I was a kid, and it might be a little less boring than the average solitaire. I originally wrote it as a Java applet, but ported it to html/JQuery when applet support ceased. The goofy looking cards are my own artwork. Amazing what you can do with MS Paint and a day off! :)

The rules (don't bother to read them, you'll figure it out anyway)

  1. Shuffle the deck and place all cards, face up, on the table in 4 rows with 13 columns.
  2. Remove the aces, leaving 48 cards on the table and creating 4 gaps (empty cells) in the grid.
  3. You may move a card to a gap if the card on the left of the gap is the same suit and one rank lower than the card to move.
  4. For example: a Jack of clubs may be placed to the right of a 10 of clubs. The opposite is not allowed: you cannot place a card to the left of a higher ranked card.
  5. A gap after a King is a dead end; you cannot place any card there which means that 4 gaps after Kings ends the round.
  6. If there is a gap at the beginning of a row, you should fill it with a 2 and start building a suit (i.e. 2 of hearts, 3 of hearts, 4 of hearts, 5 of hearts, etc).
  7. When there are no more possible moves to make ("4 gaps after Kings"), the round is finished. If by then all 48 cards are in suit, the solitaire is won.
  8. If not, gather the unsuited cards so that the only remaining cards on the table are the ones ordered from 2 and up as described above. Remember that only sequences beginning at the first cell in a row count as suited.
  9. Put the aces back among the gathered cards and shuffle. Then redeal the cards on the table by filling the empty cells in the 4 by 13 grid. Remove the aces, once again creating 4 gaps in the grid.
  10. Continue building suites as described above. You have 3 tries.
  11. The program will do all the shuffling and dealing for you. Just click away and enjoy the game!
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