Getting good at Kabufuda Solitaire

Just some advice on how to more consistently win matches of Kabufuda Solitaire.

Introduction

I was having trouble with this Solitaire the most when I was starting out. If you're like me and you need some help figuring out a better strategy to more consistently win games, allow me to help you out.
It should be noted that this is, obviously, most consistent and easy on the Easy difficulty. If you want to challenge yourself, you could of course knock the difficulty up a few notches, but if you're mostly just going for a high win rate (for the achievements), this works quite well.

Actual guide

Once I've explained it, the strategy is quite simple. There are 10 sets of cards spread out over 8 rows. Once you've made a stack of four, you should immediately try putting it in one of the free slots at the top. This makes it so there's only 9 card types, spread over 8 rows. This means that once you've collapsed three stacks in the free slots there's 7 card types for 8 rows, meaning there isn't a single configuration possible where you can't move a card to either a free spot or another stack of the same type. Once you've collapsed two, I think there's only one possible configuration where you get stuck, which happens if you have eight stacks of three cards on top of all the single cards on the bottom, which is incredibly unlikely to happen.

To summarize, your goal is to collapse stacks of four cards in the top row. Once you've collapsed two, the chance of winning has increased to about 99.99%, and once you've collapsed three you've already won. Congratulations!

Thank you for reading my guide.

[Chrisdaman417]

This paragraph has changed my win rate for the better! Such a simple strategy too. Well done