Baker's Dozen variant

Spanish Patience Solitaire

Thirteen columns. Open information. A pure thinking patience.

Spanish Patience is a Baker's Dozen variant that's significantly more lenient than the parent game: empty columns can be filled with any card, and the build-down rule allows alternating colour rather than ignoring suit. The result is one of the more solvable open-information patiences in the app.

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Medium 56% win rate

How to play Spanish Patience

Goal - Move all the cards to the Foundation

Decks

A standard deck (52 cards)

Redeals

Foundation

Built up by rank from Ace to King
The top card of each pile is available for move

Tableau

Built down by rank
The top card of each pile is available for move
An empty pile may not be filled
All Kings are moved to the bottom of the piles after the deal

Strategy & tips

Empty-column flexibility changes the strategy. Plan to engineer one empty column by mid-game.
Work backwards from the foundations - identify which cards block each Ace, then plan the unblocking sequence.

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