What changes from Braid?
Long Braid extends the central sequence from 21 to 24 cards. That leaves 80 cards in the stock, compared with 83 in Braid. The last braid card remains the only one you may take from the center.
All six empty reserve cells can receive that braid tip when no foundation accepts it. In standard Braid, only four linked reserve cells can receive a card directly from the braid. Waste cards can use all six in both games.
The extra cards make the braid longer, while the extra reserve choices help you keep it moving. A reserve cell still holds only one card, and occupied cells must be cleared to foundations before they can be reused.
Plan the flow
Check the tip against the foundations before using a reserve. If an Ace or the next rank of a suit is available, sending it to a foundation keeps a cell free for a later blocker.
Only the waste top is available after a stock draw. If a useful card would be covered by the next draw, move it to a foundation or a free reserve first.
Read the Long Braid section of the Braid guide →
Long Braid is part of Clocktower · Layout, cross & clock-face games and is a variant of Braid. The central braid has 24 cards instead of 21, and its tip can use all six reserve cells.
More Layout, cross & clock-face games games
- Braid — Herringbone layout feeding eight foundations.
- Windmill — Center and corner foundations, windmill layout.
- Big Ben — Clock-face foundations building by suit.
- British Blockade — Build eight Ace and King foundations from a ten-column blockade that grows row by row.
- British Square — Two-deck 4×4 with reversible foundations.
- Captive Queens — Four Queens sit inside a ring of descending Fives and ascending Sixes.
Also try
- Emperor (Forty Thieves & two-deck builders) — Two-deck Forty Thieves relative with waste play.
- Intrigue (Court games) — Eight Queen columns; eight Five-piles built down to the King and eight Six-piles built up to the Jack, regardless of suit.
- Milligan Cell (Miss Milligan & row dealers) — Four free cells add temporary storage to Miss Milligan’s eight columns.
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