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Deal all thirteen piles face-up, build up or down by one in any suit, and claim every empty pile for a King as you plot your way to the win.

Lucky Piles Solitaire is a wide-open member of the Lucky Thirteen family. The entire deck is dealt into thirteen tableau piles of four face-up cards, with no stock and no waste to fall back on, so everything you need is already in front of you from the first move.

The tableau builds up or down by one regardless of suit, which gives you a lot of room to shuffle cards between piles and dig for the Aces underneath. The foundations, meanwhile, are strict: they build up in suit from Ace to King and pull winning cards up automatically. The tension comes from emptying a pile, because only a King may move into a gap.

It is played with a single deck, and with everything visible from the start your odds of victory lean heavily on planning your moves in the right order rather than on luck.

Lucky Thirteen Solitaire and Luckier Thirteen Solitaire run on the same thirteen-pile setup as this one.

From here, the natural next stop is original Solitaire.

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How to play Lucky Piles Solitaire

Layout:

4 foundation piles: Build up in suit from Ace to King. Winning cards are moved here automatically as they become available.

13 tableau piles: Dealt face-up with four cards each, using the whole deck. Build up or down by one regardless of suit. Only the top card of each pile may be moved, and only a King may fill an empty pile.

Foundation:

There are four foundation piles.

A foundation pile is started with an Ace. Build the remainder of each pile upward in the same suit.

A card can be added to a foundation pile only if it's one rank higher and the same suit as the pile's current top card, so the only card that fits on a 7 of clubs is an 8 of clubs. There can be no more than 13 cards in a pile.

The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.

Tableau:

Thirteen tableau piles of four cards each. Every card is dealt face-up.

A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank higher or one rank lower than the pile's current top card, regardless of suit, so the cards that fit on an 8 are a 7 and a 9. The sequence does not wrap, so nothing may be placed on a King going up or on an Ace going down.

Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card are free to be played onto the foundation or another tableau pile. Only one card may be moved at a time; sequences are not permitted.

Empty tableau spaces may only be filled with a King.