How to Play Baker's Solitaire

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about a game called Baker's solitaire or Baker's. The game is such that it's dealt such that you don't have a stock pile. You deal out an entire deck of cards onto the playing area also known as the tableau. On your left you're going to have four rows, four piles if you will of face up cards, each being seven cards long. And then over here four piles, each being six cards long and imagine if you will four ways piles and four foundation piles. Let's say here, just so we can mark those, these are your four ways piles, these are your four foundation piles and what you can do is you can move any card that's not an ace up to your ways piles and you can move to the foundation piles sequences by suit starting with an ace. So, at the start of this game I do get to move up two aces, ace of spades and ace of clubs and around the board I can build sequentially by suit. Let's see if that's possible. At this time there are no suited sequences that I can play so the way that the ways piles come into play is that I can move a card up to here so that it enables me to open up a space and see what I may be able to play on the board. By moving this queen up I opened up a spot where I can move the ten of clubs over on to the jack of clubs and by having this clean up here I will be able to move a jack up later if I need to. Let's see. I don't have any place I can make right now so I will move another queen up to here through any value but you're better off moving a higher value card up to here and I can move this ten or this four but doing so would not be advantageous. Check around the board. Well, I don't really have a lot of place I can make, I'm sure you realize by now that the game of Baker's is kind of hard and a player can make is the ace of hearts can go here for its foundation pile. Two clubs is available to move up to here on top of the ace of clubs. So you see I took a second look and I found some things I could and I would advice you to be sure and take a second look if you ever think that you run out of options when you're playing any versions of solitaire. And now, there is not a whole lot I can do because of the whole suited issue but I can move the four of diamonds over to the five of diamonds and that does exhaust my place so what I'm going to do is I'm going to move this jack up to here and by doing so I can move any ten up to that jack so I'm going to move this red ten up to there and I can move this nine up to here but this is the ways pile. You don't want to be moving things up to here unless it helps you. The idea, the object to the game is get all the cards over into the foundations. We've cover the basics, how the game is played, you deal out the fact, the tableau, you're playing area, you move aces of each suit up to the four foundation piles and then you can go ascending on top of the aces, you can move cards to the ways piles and build down descending, and then you can move cards around the board by suit and sequence. Those are the rules of Baker solitaire and the way you win is you get all the cards played playing by the rules moved over to the four foundation piles. Hope you have a lot of fun. Enjoy Baker's. If you need a little easier version of solitaire play then Baker's may not be the way to start out but if you need some challenge when you sit down and play solitaire, Baker's has challenge to spare."