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Montana Type Games

1. Blue Moon, 1 French deck, 2 redeals
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
   • Rangoon
2. Dietmanns Moon, 1 Tarock deck, 3 redeals
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
3. Double Montana, 2 French decks, no redeals
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
4. Galary, 1 French deck, 2 redeals
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
5. Hex A Moon, 1 Hex A Deck deck, 3 redeals
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
6. Jungle, 1 French deck, 1 redeal
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
7. Montana, 1 French deck, 2 redeals
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
   • Gaps
8. Moonlight, 1 French deck, 2 redeals
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
9. Paganini, 1 French deck, 1 redeal
   • Skill level: Mostly skill
   • Long Trip
10. Red Moon, 1 French deck, 2 redeals
    • Skill level: Mostly skill
11. Spaces, 1 French deck, 2 redeals
    • Skill level: Mostly skill
12. Spaces and Aces, 1 French deck, no redeals
    • Skill level: Mostly skill

Blue Moon:



Tableaux
56 Montana rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 2 redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 13 cards in ascending sequence by suit from Ace to King.
Quick Description
Like Montana, but the Aces are moved to the left.
Gameplay is completely equivalent.
Rules
This 52 card solitaire starts with the entire deck shuffled and dealt out in four rows. The aces are then moved to the left end of the layout, making 4 initial free spaces. You may move to a space only the card that matches the left neighbor in suit, and is one greater in rank. Kings are high, so no cards may be placed to their right (they create dead spaces). When no moves can be made, cards still out of sequence are reshuffled and dealt face up after the ends of the partial sequences, leaving a card space after each sequence, so that each row looks like a partial sequence followed by a space, followed by enough cards to make a row of 14.
Notes
Autodrop is disabled for this game.

Dietmanns Moon:



Tableaux
60 Montana rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 3 redeals

Object
Arrange the cards in order from Ace through King.
Rules
Blue Moon with the Tarokk deck.
Notes
According to Wikipeadia, Dietmanns is a market town in Austria with a 2020 population of 1,063.

Double Montana:



Tableaux
112 Montana rows, base rank any
Initial deal talon, no redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 13 cards in ascending sequence by suit from Ace to King.
Rules
Montana with two decks.

Galary:



Tableaux
56 Galary rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 2 redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 13 cards in ascending sequence by suit from Ace to King.
Rules
The Aces are dealt to the leftmost spaces with the next spaces to the right empty.

Hex A Moon:



Tableaux
68 Montana rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 3 redeals

Object
Arrange the cards in order from One through Hex.
Rules
This is a tough one.

Jungle:



Tableaux
56 Jungle rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 1 redeal

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 13 cards in ascending sequence by suit from Ace to King.
Rules
The rows build in rank only.

Montana:



Tableaux
1 Invisible internal
52 Montana rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 2 redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 12 cards in ascending sequence by suit from Two to King.
Rules
This solitaire starts with the entire deck shuffled and dealt out in four rows. The Aces are then removed making 4 initial free spaces. You may move to a space only the card that matches the left neighbor in suit, and is one greater in rank. Kings are high, so no cards may be placed to their right (they create dead spaces). When no moves can be made, cards still out of sequence are reshuffled and dealt face up after the ends of the partial sequences, leaving a card space after each sequence, so that each row looks like a partial sequence followed by a space, followed by enough cards to make a row of 13.
Notes
Autodrop is disabled for this game.
Strategy
A moment's reflection will show that this game cannot take more than 12 redeals. But only 2 redeals are allowed.

Moonlight:



Tableaux
1 Invisible internal
52 Galary rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 2 redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 12 cards in acscending sequence by suit from Two to King.
Rules
Essentially this seems to be Montana with a different name.
Notes
Autodrop is disabled for this game.

Paganini:



Tableaux
40 Paganini rows, base rank any
Paganini talon, 1 redeal

Object
Arrange the cards in order as Ace then six through King.
Rules
Like the rest with a stripped French deck. The initial empty spaces are located at random.

Red Moon:



Tableaux
56 Montana rows, base rank any
Montana talon, 2 redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 13 cards in ascending sequence by suit from Ace to King.
Rules
Like Blue Moon, but easier because of a different initial layout.
Notes
Autodrop is disabled for this game.

Spaces:



Tableaux
1 Invisible internal
52 Montana rows, base rank any
Spaces talon, 2 redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 12 cards in acscending sequence by suit from Two to King.
Rules
Like Montana but with random spaces after each redeal.

Spaces and Aces:



Tableaux
56 Spaces and Aces rows, base rank any
Initial deal talon, no redeals

Object
Group all the cards in sets of 13 cards in ascending sequence by suit from Ace to King.
Rules
Blue Moon except the Aces are moved by hand.

• Alternate names.