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Build the same Forty Thieves layout, but down in alternating colors instead of matching suit, and double your landing spots for every card.
Streets Solitaire is Forty Thieves with a single, telling twist: instead of building the tableau down in the same suit, you build down in alternating colors. That one change loosens the notoriously stiff Forty Thieves layout, because a red seven will now accept either black six, giving you roughly twice the landing spots for every card you want to move.
The game is played with two decks and lays out ten tableau piles of four face-up cards each. Eight foundations wait to be built up by suit from Ace to King, and a single pass through the stock feeds the waste one card at a time. With everything visible from the first deal, Streets rewards patience and forward planning far more than luck, and a careful player can win a healthy share of games.
Because there is no redeal, the discipline is knowing when to commit a card to the waste and when to keep threading sequences through the tableau. Empty columns are precious real estate, and clearing one early often decides the whole game.
If you like Streets, Forty Thieves Solitaire is its stricter same-suit parent and well worth a try.
When you want a simpler game, the classic Solitaire is right there.
If you run into anything odd or have an idea that would make the game better, please contact me.
Enjoy playing!
How to play Streets Solitaire
Layout:
8 foundation piles: Build up in the same suit from Ace to King. Playable cards are lifted here automatically.
10 tableau piles: Build down in alternating colors. Only the top card of each pile may be moved, one at a time. Each pile is dealt four face-up cards at the start of the game.
Stock: Click to turn over cards one at a time to the waste. There are no redeals.
Waste: The top card is playable.
Foundation:
There are eight foundation piles, played with two decks so each suit is built twice.
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 spades is an 8 of spades. Each pile runs from Ace up to King.
The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.
Tableau:
Ten tableau piles of four cards each, all dealt face-up.
A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower and the opposite color of the pile's current top card, so the only cards that fit on an 8 of spades are the 7 of hearts and 7 of diamonds.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card can be played onto the foundation or any other tableau pile. An empty tableau space may be filled by any available card.
Only one card may be moved at a time; sequences are not permitted.
Stock and waste:
There is one waste pile and the remaining cards make up the stock.
Click the stock to turn over one card to the waste. There is no redeal.
The top card of the waste can be played to the tableau or foundation.
