Welcome to the Baker’s Dozen Game!

Hey there! Let me introduce you to the exciting world of Baker’s Dozen. It’s a big game with a fancy game board. What makes it even better is that all the cards are face up, so you can see everything right from the start. Plus, you get a little boost with the option to move the Kings to the bottom of their columns. Pretty cool, huh? And here’s the best part: you have a 66% chance of winning! Now that’s something to get excited about!

Let’s Talk About the Cards and the Layout

Alright, here’s what you do first. Grab a deck of cards and shuffle them up real nice. Then, deal out the entire deck into three rows. Make sure to stack the rows on top of each other so that you can see the ranks and suits of all the cards. That way, you’ll have thirteen columns, each with three cards. Oh, and don’t forget about the Kings! Move them to the bottom of their columns. If you do this right, all the Kings will be hidden beneath the other cards in their columns.

THE GAME

Now that the cards are all dealt, you can start moving them around. When you uncover an Ace, you can move it to one of the foundation piles to start building them. The foundations are built up in order, starting with the Ace and going all the way up to the King, with each card following the same suit.

You can also move the top card of a tableau column to another column or to one of the foundations. When moving cards within the tableau, you have to build in descending order, meaning you place a card with a lower value on top of a card with a higher value. The suit doesn’t matter when building tableau columns. For example, you can put a 6 of clubs on top of a 7 of diamonds. But once a tableau column is empty, you can’t fill the hole with another card.

You keep playing like this until either all four foundation piles are complete or there are no more legal moves left to make.

HOW TO WIN

You win the game by successfully moving all of the cards to their corresponding foundation piles, starting with the Ace and building up to the King in ascending order.