It predates FreeCell, and differs from it only in the fact that sequences are built by suit, instead of by alternate color.

Gardner wrote "The game was taught to Baker by his father, who in turn learned it from an Englishman during the 1920s".

Construction and layout: Building during play: Moves: Victory: Variant: To make the game even more difficult, allow only kings to be placed on an empty tableau spot.

Freecell Solver, a solver for some variants of Patience game, including Baker's Game,[3] was run on the first 10 million deals of Baker's Game with 4 reserve cells based on the Microsoft FreeCell deals, in order to collect statistics.

[4] The solver was run using a preset that guarantees an accurate verdict.