Initial card layout: Montana is started by dealing out four rows of 13 cards. The aces are removed creating four blank spaces.

Goal: The goal of the game is to move the cards so that each row contains all 12 cards of a suit in sequence from 2 to King.

Moving cards: Cards can only be moved to blank spaces. A card can be moved to a blank space if it next in sequence and of the same suit as the card just to the left of the blank space. If the left-most place in a row is blank then there is no previous card. In this case any 2 can be moved to the blank space.

Getting stuck: Usually you will make all possible moves and the cards will still not all be in sequence. Each of the four blank spaces will have a King, or another blank space, on the left. When this happens you can redeal the cards.

Redealing: Redealing means that all the cards that are not in sequence are picked up, shuffled, and put back on the board in the empty spaces created by picking up the cards.

When redealing the space to the right of the highest card in each sequence is left blank. This means that, after a redeal, there will be usually be four possible moves. There will only be less than four if one or more of the rows contains a complete suit in sequence.

Montana allows two redeals. A variation usually called Addiction allows three redeals. This game allows any number of redeals. The program keeps track of how many redeals it took to win each games so you can look at those and determine which games would have been won using the redeal limits of Montana or Addiction.