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Baker's Dozen is a solitaire card game using a deck of fifty-two playing cards. The game is so called because of the 13 columns in the game, the number in a baker's dozen.

First, the cards are dealt into columns of four on the tableau, resulting in 13 columns. Any King that is in the top or middle of each column must be placed on the bottom before the game starts. Two Kings that are mixed into one column are placed on the bottom without changing their order.

The object of the game is to build all the cards onto the four foundations. The player must first free up the four aces and if one of them is found, it is placed on the foundation. Building on the foundation is up by suit, each from ace to king.

Only the top cards of each column can are available, and cards on the tableau, if they cannot be placed on the foundations yet, can be built down regardless of suit. Furthermore, once all cards are taken out of a column, the column can never be filled

You can play as a regular user or a registered user. The registered users retain the entire game history with an option to return to any previous game and continue any take, an option to bookmark the best hands, leave a commentary, participate in a competition with other player and send personal messages to other registered players.

The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.

In order to register you simply need to enter a name (starting with 3 characters) and a password (no less than 5 characters). If such a name is already registered in the game, you will have to enter another one.

Upon exiting everything is saved automatically. After logging on the next time you will find yourself in the same state you were in when you last left.

Upper button panel

Undo, redo (also arrow left and arrow right keys on the keyboard) allow you to undo and redo moves at your discretion, up to the very beginning.

New game - starts a new game. By repeatedly pressing the new game key you can scroll through games and choose the hand you prefer. By pressing the arrow up/arrow down keys on the keyboard you can move through the hands offered. Only those hands that you have started playing (meaning those you have made at least one move in) will end up in your game history.

Start over - begins a new attempt.

Automove - automatically does all the moves from the playing area and the bank to the house

Special move - this allows for a fast scroll back over the sequence of moves until you reach the stage required. This helps you quickly locate the stage where you possibly had made a mistake. After having pressed the special move button, select any card on the desk and click on it. The computer brings you back to the initial positioning of this card, meaning the moment you made the first move with said card (if nothing happens, it means you have not yet moved this card). You can exit the special move mode by repeatedly clicking the special move button, or by pressing the ESC key.

After selecting special move you can scroll your decision with Redo and Undo buttons. Until you have made a new move you may cancel the special move by pressing the "cancel special move" button (where the special move button previously was).

Available moves - this highlights the card you can make a move with, in yellow. This does not mean that you absolutely have to make said move; the choice is yours. When following a correct strategy, you do not make all the moves randomly, but you use a certain strategy.

You can turn off this mode by once again clicking the "possible moves" button.

Playing board info

A list of your attempts is indicated above, with an option to return to any one of them. The large number indicates the number of your current take. Red colored number indicates the number of hands which you have solved. To go to another attempt, press on the relevant number. When returning to unsolved hands you shall see the previous positioning of the cards. When you go to solved hands, you will be able to see how you had made your moves by scrolling «redo» and «undo» buttons.

You shall find hand info below the attempts list:

• Hand number (999);
• Hand rating (rating 1:38) — average time spent by all players to solve this hand, the number of players who solved the hand out of the number of the players who attempted to solve it;
• Amount of moves in the current attempt (moves 51);
• Current time of the latest attempt (time 2:41). If you haven’t made a single move during 15 seconds (e.g. you got distracted from the game), time freezes. The frozen time is highlighted in blue. Any move made afterwards resumes the time count;
• Total time spent on all attempts (total time 4:30).

Green dot means you have Internet connection, red dot means you are disconnected. You can still finish the hand while disconnected, but it will not be saved in your history, and you will not participate in the rating unless the connection restores while you are playing.

Lower button panel

Parameters refers to setting an order (playing in succession or in random order). You can "play in random order" - by pressing the "new game" button a random-numbered hand will load up; choosing the "play in succession" mode loads up the numerically successive hand. By setting the "only hands played by me" mode or "only hands solved by me" mode you will receive hands in numeric succession or randomly, but in said respective mode. Also you may enter the hand number in the "enter hand number" bar and select the hand difficulty level.

All hands — a list of all hands of the game with an option to view the statistics on each of them and to sort under several parameters.

History — allows you to see the entire history of all games played by you, to view statistics and your position in the overall rating according to the number of the solved hands (only for registered users).

About the hand — upon pressing this button the following will appear:

Comment — allows you to leave a comment and/or add the hand to your favorites (only for registered users).

Rating — rating of the players initially arranged according to the number of the solved hands.

Rank — displays players’ position in overall rating.

Date — column refers to the player’s registration date for a particular game.

Solved — how many hands was solved for today (green numbers with the plus show how many hands you tried to solve from 5 a.m. UTC of the previous day till 5 a.m. UTC of the current day).

Total — column shows how many hands you have tried to solve for today (green numbers with the plus show how many hands you tried to solve from 5 a.m. UTC of the previous day till 5 a.m. UTC of the current day).

Percentage — refers to the correlation of the number of the hands you solved to the number of the hands you have attempted to solve.

1st places — displays the number of first places according to the time spent to solve hands.

When you press one of the columns, the order of players may change depending on results.

Sign in / Profile — an option to enter personal profile, sign in or register.

Inside your profile you can fill out some additional personal information, upload a photo, as well as store and maintain messaging with other registered players.

Registration

You can play without registration as a guest. After having registered and/or authorized you will be able to manage your profile and send messages to other players.

To register, you have to enter your user name (at least 3 symbols) and password (not less than 5 symbols). If such a name already exists you will have to enter another one.