La Belle Lucie is a solitaire card game in which a 52 card deck is dealt into 18 piles (17 piles of 3 and a singleton). The foundations in this game must be started with the Aces, and built up to Kings by suit. La Belle Lucie Solitaire free download - 123 Free Solitaire, Free Spider Solitaire 2020, SolSuite Solitaire 2021, and many more programs. Is a very difficult solitaire card game played with a single deck. The game begins with the player having been dealt the 52 card deck into piles of 3 cards. 52 can't be evenly divided by 3, so you end up with 17 piles of 3 cards and a single pile of 1 card. La Belle Lucie differs from classic solitaire in that it punishes foolish or hasty moves by preventing the player from using cards that have already been moved once. This limitation, along with a three-round style that keeps games tight and exciting, means that every move must be considered carefully and thought-out in relation to the rest of. Classic Solitaire game in 3 difficulty modes: easy, casual and normal. Move all cards to the foundations by suit in ascending order. On the table, you can move the top card onto another card by the same suit in descending order to plan your strategy a little better. Easy: You can place any top card on an empty stack and you can move sequences already in the correct order. Casual: You can.
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Try to win this game where the target is to shift all the cards to four foundations according to the suit from A-K.
Gameplay
- In the beginning, all the cards would be distributed to eighteen piles wherein each of the seventeen collections would have three upturned cards, and the left group will have just one upturned card.
- You will find the foundations positioned on the top of the game screen.
- The cards cover the piles need to be built down according to the suit and every time you can shift the card on the top over a collection to the foundation, or over another group, in case it is in a similar suit or of immediate lower rank than the top card over the target pile
- For instance, a six of spaces can be shifted to a seven of spades over another collection.
- You will get 500 points for every card that you shift successfully to the foundations.
- After a pile is vacant, you cannot use it anymore. In case you fall in short of moves, you can click on the button – ‘Redeal’ located at the screen’s bottom so that the cards over the piles are easily re-distributed and reshuffled to the collections.
- Remember, it may not always work for you as you would end up losing 5000 points for every redeal, and also, the count of the piles would reduce later.
- For instance, if you own five cards in all leftover three piles, you would have just two collections post redealing (three cards plus two cards).
- Make sure you reduce the count of a reshuffle to score higher in the game. The game would be easy if you know and like playing solitaire games. If you have tried playing similar games in the past, it would be an added advantage for you to win.
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About La Belle Lucie Solitaire
by Thomas Warfield
Screen shot of the game La Belle Lucie from Pretty Good Solitaire.
La Belle Lucie Solitaire
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La Belle Lucie is an old, classic game of solitaire. It is also known under many other names, including Fair Lucy and Midnight Oil. It is the most popular ofthe fan type games, where cards are dealt out in small groups of 3 cards.
How to Play
At the start of La Belle Lucie, the single deck of cards is dealt out in 17 packets (or fans) of 3 cards each (except for the last fan, which will have only 1card). These fans constitute the tableau. The top card of each fan is available and all the cards are face up so that they can be seen.
As aces become available, they are moved to the 4 foundation piles, which are built up in suit from the aces to kings. The game is won when all the cards aremoved here.
Within the tableau, cards are built in descending sequence by suit. No card may be played to an empty fan. You must be very careful not to block yourself whenmoving cards about the fans. It is very easy to block play by moving a card onto a fan where a lower card of the same suit is already buried.
When all available moves have been played, all the cards in the fans are taken up, shuffled, and then redealt again in fans of 3 cards. There are two suchshuffles allowed, resulting in 3 deals in all.
Some sources allow a grace during the last deal. This grace permits one buried card in one fan to be moved to the top of its fan. This variant is oftencalled 'Three Shuffles and a Draw' rather than La Belle Lucie. The two main 20th century solitaire book sources disagree about whether this draw isallowed in La Belle Lucie. Albert H. Morehead & Geoffrey Mott-Smith allow the draw (on the last deal only) in their 1949 book 'The Complete Book of Solitaire& Patience Games'. David Parlett does not allow a draw at all in his comprehensive 'The Penguin Book of Patience.'
This disagreement in the rules in La Belle Lucie goes way back. William B. Dick, in his 1883 solitaire book, allowed the draw. Mary Whitmore Jones did also inher solitaire book from the 1890s. But Lady Cadogan in her 'Illustrated Book of Patience' from 1870 does not. So the best solution is probably to justconsider the draw another (very similar) game.
Without the draw, an average player can win La Belle Lucie about 40% of the time, but there is wide latitude for skill, and actual scores can be much better(or worse) than this. Using the draw, an average player can win about 60% of the time.
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