Tablet_ShuntingStation

This is a difficult patience where You must plan the sequence of Your moves carefully.

This (tablet-) version uses DragAndDrop.

The Rules are very simple:
4 x 13 cards (Ass to king) are mixed and layed out in 4 rows; then the asses are put to the left of the rows. Now there are 4 free fields (see Screenshot1)

Now the card families must be built in ascending order:
(see Screenshot2)

To that purpose You must "shunt": choose a free field and draw the card which is the successor of the card left of this field (same colour) onto this field. E.g. diamonds-7 is placed onto the free field to the right of diamonds-6 (see Screenshot3). Club-7 is placed to the right of club-8 (see Screenshot4).

A king has no successor. Therefore a free field to the right of a king cannot be filled anymore. Once all 4 free fields are to the right of a king, there are no moves left: (see Screenshot5) End of a step

Now press "Deal the unsorted cards afresh": the still unsorted cards are collected, mixed and layed out afresh leaving one free field to the right of the already sorted cards: (see Screenshot6)

The patience is solved, when the families have been built before the cards have been layed out for the 4th time.
If this could not be achieved, You have one last "consolation" layout.

Screenshot7 shows a situation (consolation layout), which can only be solved by carefully planned moves. You can try it in the free version!

Note: Hint shows a possible move, not necessarily the best move.

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