How is Streets different from Forty Thieves?

One rule: the tableau builds down in alternating colors instead of down by suit. Everything else - the 10x4 deal, the eight foundations, the single-card moves, the no-redeal stock - is identical.

Does the easier building make it easy?

Easier, not easy. The foundations still build by suit, so mixed-color chains can bury the exact cards you need. Streets rewards restraint as much as Forty Thieves rewards patience.

No. Like classic Forty Thieves, the stock is dealt once, one card at a time. The friendlier build rule is the variant’s entire concession.

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Streets takes the classic Forty Thieves board - two decks, ten face-up columns of four, eight foundations, a 64-card stock dealt one at a time with no redeal - and changes exactly one rule: the tableau builds down in ALTERNATING COLORS instead of by suit. A red seven now takes either black eight, which roughly doubles the hosts every card has and transforms the game's character from grinding to flowing.

The rules in brief

Goal: move all 104 cards to the eight foundations, each built up in suit from ace to king.
Tableau: builds down in alternating colors (a red 7 on a black 8), one card at a time.
Empty columns: take any single card.
Stock: one card at a time to the waste, no redeal.

Strategy

Alternating-color building is generous, and that generosity is a trap: it is easy to build long mixed chains that feel productive and bank nothing. The foundations still build by suit, so a beautiful red-black staircase can bury exactly the club you need. Keep your chains short and purposeful, empty a column before the stock is half gone, and remember there is no redeal - a card passed over on the waste is a card you may never see again.