🕳️ Gaps Solitaire
🂡 Cards · 14 playsGaps Solitaire
Four gaps, forty-eight cards. Put the whole shuffled deck back in order.
About Gaps Solitaire
The solitaire also known as Montana: pull the aces from a deck, deal everything into four rows, and the four holes they leave are your only way to move. Each gap takes exactly one card — the same-suit card one rank above whatever sits to its left — and only 2s may enter the left edge, where the first 2 fixes that row’s suit. Your job is to sort every row into 2 through King of one suit. The catch: a gap sitting after a King is dead, and when every gap is dead you’re stuck. You get two redeals that keep your locked runs and reshuffle the rest, so the real game is reading the chain three moves ahead before you tap.
How to Play
Tap a glowing gap to pull in its card: same suit, one rank above the card on its left. Only 2s enter the left edge — the first 2 sets that row’s suit. Sort every row into 2 → K of a single suit to win. A gap after a King is dead. Every gap dead = stuck. Two redeals keep your locked runs and reshuffle the rest. Undo any move.
💡 Tips & Strategy
Every gap has exactly one card that can fill it, so the skill is reading chains, not spotting moves. Filling a gap opens a new one where that card came from — follow the sequence a few links ahead and favour the chain that ends by extending a left-edge run, because locked cards are the only ones that survive a redeal.
Kings are the enemy. A gap that ends up to the right of a King is dead forever, so before every move check what the card you're moving leaves behind. When you must create a dead gap, do it in a row whose run is already long. Undo costs nothing — walk a chain, and if it sours, back out and try the other gap.
Squeeze the board dry before you redeal: only the locked 2-3-4 runs from the left edge are kept, and each row's new gap lands right after its run — prime position. So extend every run as far as it will possibly go first, take the first redeal when the gaps die, and save the second for converting a near-finished board into a win.