Shamrocks is a solitaire game akin to La Belle Lucie . The object is the same as the latter: move the cards into the foundations.
8-485: The game is laid out as in La Belle Lucie : seventeen piles of three cards are placed on the table with one card counting as an eighteenth. Any card that can be moved to the foundations should be moved and built up by suit (starting from the ace). The top card of each pile can be used for play and once a pile is empty, it cannot be refilled. Before the game begins, each King which is on top or middle of its respective pile
16-455: A Draw , Alexander the Great , Trefoil , and Midnight Oil . All cards are visible from the start, but this does not imply that this game is solvable with strategy, because the game is very hard to win under the default rules. For example, moving a single card onto another blocks that stack until both cards can be removed to the foundations. Any setup that has a lower card of a specific suit below
24-406: A higher of the same suit, or all kings not on the bottom of each cascade cannot be solved without cheating. The shuffle and redeal is of little help. For each king left in the second redeal, there is a 66% chance that the cascade cannot be solved (if the king is not lowest). Moving aces out (Trefoil rule) has cosmetic character. La Belle Lucie is "a classic patience game" that was first published in
32-472: Is a patience or card solitaire where the object is to build the cards into the foundations. It is considered to be representative of the "fan" family of solitaire card games, and has a pleasing layout. While the game originated in France as La Belle Lucie, it is also known under the name Lovely Lucy . Other common names and closely related variants include The Fan , Clover Leaves , Three Shuffles and
40-439: Is placed underneath . Morehead and Mott-Smith's rules to the game specifically states that a King that is on top of a lower-ranked card of the same suit should be placed under that lower-ranked card , no matter what else in its pile. Some rules suggest that kings not be moved to the bottom of the piles during the initial layout (as pictured on the right), which significantly decreases the chances of successful play. To play on
48-487: The English language by Lady Adelaide Cadogan in 1870. Variants are listed in the order they will occur in the game play: The "no redeal rule" and the "king rule" are often used together since redeals are needed to get to cards under a king unless it’s allowed to move kings to empty fans. Shamrocks is a closely related variant that limits building in the tableau to three cards per fan. Since all cards are visible after
56-406: The deal, the basic strategy is to think before doing moves. A redeal is not always of much help, since it will give fewer fans than the initial deal. Cards under a king are blocked until the redeal or until the king is moved to the foundations (if the "king rule" is not in effect). The "alternating colours rule for moves between fans" will simplify the difficulty a little bit and slightly increase
64-470: The tableau, a card can be placed on a card that is one rank higher or lower, regardless of suit (a 6♠ can be placed on a 7♣ or a 5 ♦ ). However, each pile can hold no more than three cards at a time; thus no card can be placed on a pile with three cards. The game is won when all of the cards have been moved to the foundations. This card game –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . La Belle Lucie La Belle Lucie
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