La Belle Lucie Solitaire offers a beautifully fair layout, with all cards visible from the very start, though don’t let that fool you, since visibility alone doesn’t guarantee the game can be solved through strategy alone, making it a genuinely engaging challenge.
The tableau is arranged into seventeen fans of three cards each, plus a single card that stands on its own as an eighteenth fan. At any given time, only the top card of each fan is available to play, so careful planning is essential.
Cards move to the foundations by suit in ascending order, while movement between fans follows the opposite pattern, with cards shifting by suit in descending order. Whenever a fan becomes completely empty, it can be refilled, but only with a king.
Once you’ve exhausted every possible move, the entire tableau gets reshuffled and redealt, once again arranged into fans of three with any leftover cards forming their own separate fan. Keep in mind, though, that you’re only allowed two reshuffles throughout the game, so use them wisely.
Ultimately, victory is achieved when every single card has been successfully transferred into the foundations.
The tableau is arranged into seventeen fans of three cards each, plus a single card that stands on its own as an eighteenth fan. At any given time, only the top card of each fan is available to play, so careful planning is essential.
Cards move to the foundations by suit in ascending order, while movement between fans follows the opposite pattern, with cards shifting by suit in descending order. Whenever a fan becomes completely empty, it can be refilled, but only with a king.
Once you’ve exhausted every possible move, the entire tableau gets reshuffled and redealt, once again arranged into fans of three with any leftover cards forming their own separate fan. Keep in mind, though, that you’re only allowed two reshuffles throughout the game, so use them wisely.
Ultimately, victory is achieved when every single card has been successfully transferred into the foundations.
La Belle Lucie Solitaire is available to play on Android, iPhone/iPad, Fire Tablet, Windows PC, macOS, and online.
