ARCHWAY

Layout

Remove an Ace and a King of each suit. Deal forty-eight cards face up in four columns of eight. Deal the remainder face up in thirteen packets forming a semi-circle arching over the columns, each packet consisting of all the cards left over of a given rank - i.e. a packet of Aces, then Twos, then Threes and so on. There will be different numbers in different packets, and some ranks may not be represented at all. On each side of the columns arrange a square of four bases consisting of two Aces and two Kings, with each King lying above the Ace of the same suit).
In this particular deal all the Sixes and Jacks happened
to fall in the central columns, leaving two stones
of the arch unfilled (greyed out).

Object

Build Aces upwards, and Kings downwards, into thirteen-card suit sequences.

Play

The exposed card of each column and all the cards in the arch are available for building on suites. Cards may be reversed between Ace and King suites of the same suit when they meet, but bases must be left intact. A space made by clearing out a column may be filled with one available card in order to unblock others, but only one card may occupy one space at a time.