Eagle Wing Easy

Family: Aces High
Categories: Pretty
Variants: Eagle Wing
Also known as: Thirteen Down

Eagle Wing Easy is much easier to win than its close variant Eagle Wing. With good play, most games are winnable.

Layout

The layout is in the shape of an eagle. (Use your imagination!) Start by placing a stack of 13 cards face down in the center; this is the trunk. On either side, place a row of four cards, all face-up: these are the wings. Above the trunk, place one more face-up card to start the first foundation; the other three foundations start out empty. Keep the rest of the deck in your hand, ready for dealing into a discard pile.

Play

The foundations build up in suit. The rank of the first card played onto any empty foundation pile must match the rank of the card placed on the first foundation in the initial layout. (For example, if the first card placed on a foundation pile is an eight, then eights must also be played onto the other empty foundations.) Building is circular, with Ace following King.

The wings build down in suit, with the unusual restriction that no wing pile may ever contain more than 3 cards. You may move an entire wing pile onto another, but only if the total number of cards is 3 or fewer.

Top cards in the wings, and the top card of the discard pile, may be played to the foundations. Whenever a space appears in the wings, fill it immediately with the top card from the trunk. The last card in the trunk may be turned face up and made available for play to the foundations.

When the trunk is empty, you may fill empty spaces in the wings at will from the discard pile.

Dealing

You may deal at any time by turning up a card from the deck and playing it either to the foundations, to an empty wing space, or to the discard pile.

You may redeal twice: when the deck is empty, pick up the entire discard pile and turn it over to form a new deck.

Goal

The goal is to move all the cards onto the foundations.

Tips

Always play cards to the foundations whenever you can, because this will open up spaces in the wings, which will then empty out the trunk. Emptying the trunk is important, because that will allow you to use empty wing spaces to store cards from your discard pile.