# Escalator

Written by Rosanna Yuen

## Setup

Type of Deck | Standard Deck
Stock | Top left pile. The rest of the deck is placed here after dealing on to the Tableau. Cards are turned over one at a time to Waste. No redeals
Waste | To be taken from Stock.
Tableau | Deal face up seven overlapping rows starting with one card on the first row, increasing by one per row and staggering the piles as to achieve a pyramid.

## Goal

Move all cards to Waste.

## Rules

All exposed cards in the pyramid are available for play. Build on to the Waste from these available cards whenever possible by playing a card with a rank immediately above or immediately below the rack of the top card in the Waste. Aces are both above Kings and below Deuces.

Cards are flipped singly from the Stock to the Waste. There is no redeal.

## Scoring

Each card removed from the Tableau scores one point.

Maximum possible score: 28

## Strategy

Try to plan ahead so that you can make runs in the future.