# Backbone

Written by Vincent Povirk

## Setup

Type of Deck | Double Deck
Stock | Single pile below the foundations on the left. The rest of the deck is placed here after dealing on to the Tableau and Reserve. Cards are turned over one at a time to Waste. One redeal.
Waste | Single pile to the right of the Stock. To be taken from Stock. Top card available for play.
Foundation | Eight piles top right. To be built up in suit from Ace to King.
Reserve | Two stacks of 9 cards each, with a single above both stacks. Cards that are not obscured are available for play to anywhere except empty tableau spaces.
Tableau | Eight piles, four on each side of the reserve. A card is dealt to each tableau pile when the game starts. Build down in suit. Empty spaces can be filled with any card. Only one card can be moved at a time.

## Goal

Move all cards to the Foundation piles.

## Rules

Cards in the Tableau are built down by suit. Only one card can be moved at a time. Empty slots can be filled with any card except from the reserve.

Cards are flipped from the Stock to the Waste individually. Top card in Waste is in play. When Stock is empty, move all cards in Waste back to the Stock, maintaining order. You can go through the deck twice.

Foundations are built up in suit from Ace to King. Cards in the Foundations are no longer in play. Double-clicking on a card will move it to the appropriate Foundation pile if such a move is possible.

## Scoring

Each card in the Foundation piles scores one point.

Maximum possible score: 104

## Strategy

You can use empty spaces in the Tableau to move multiple cards. Be careful with Kings in the Reserve: the only way to remove them is by playing them to a Foundation on top of a Queen.