Mumbai

About Mumbai Solitaire

by Thomas Warfield

Screen shot of the game Indian Patience (similar to Mumbai) from Pretty Good Solitaire.

Mumbai is a 3 deck version of the game Indian Patience.

How to Play

At the start of the game, three cards are dealt out to 13 tableau piles. The bottom card of the three is face down. There are 12 foundation piles. The object is to found the Aces and build the foundation piles up in suit from Ace to King. The game is won when all the cards are moved to the foundations.

The remainder of the cards form a stock and are turned over one card at a time to a waste pile. The top card of the waste is available for play. There are no redeals.

The top card of each tableau pile is available for play. Building in the tableau is down by any suit but the same. Only one card at a time may be moved.

When a face down card is exposed in the tableau, the card is turned face up and becomes a "protected" card. Protected cards may only be moved to a foundation pile and no cards may be played upon them. When a protected card is moved to a foundation, the empty space will be filled from the stock with one face down card and two more face up (for as long as the stock contains the cards to do so).

Protected cards remain protected until the stock is empty, then they become available for play on other tableau piles, and other cards may be played upon them.

After the stock is empty, spaces may be filled by any card.

Because of the protected cards, you need to avoid creating too many tableau piles where there is a single remaining protected card of high rank. These cards can be moved only when a play to the foundations develops. Lower ranked protected cards are likely play up to the foundations faster.

Mumbai is one of the 850 games in Pretty Good Solitaire.

Variations of Mumbai