Marshalling Yard (Montana)
Marshalling Yard (Montana)
Marshalling Yard
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Marshalling Yard is also known as Montana and it is the only game played in a scroll view sofar. I found its original name (translated from a German book much nicer) than the 6 rule variations in the wild (those variations have so few differences to the original rule that it is not worth including them into Super Solitaire). The task is to sort the 52 cards from the Aces to the left in ascending order by marshalling the cards. Place the next higher card in suit into an empty spot so it matches the previous one. The 4 empty spots will move over the whole table and get stuck behind Kings. You will have several trains of half finished series moving across the tableau. If all 4 spots end up behind a King you need to flip (at most 3 times). This collects all unsorted cards and deals them anew.
The game is rather difficult by default, so I have added the cheat that Kings can move freely. This way you can reclaim some dead spots, and it helps a lot without changing the game.
Hint: You can DOUBLE TAP cards to autoplace them in this Game, instead of dragging them, which may be tedious in the scroll view.
Happy marshalling!