How to Play Three Shuffles Solitaire

A fan variant of La Belle Lucie: every card is dealt face up into 18 tableau piles, with the option to reshuffle and redeal twice, plus a final draw of a buried card. The goal: Move every card to the foundations, building each suit from Ace to King.

Setup

1. Deal all 52 cards face up into 18 tableau piles: 3 cards each for the first 17 piles, 1 card for the last.
2. Set up 4 empty foundation piles above.
3. Every card starts in the tableau with no stock or waste pile.

How to play

• Move only the top card from each tableau pile to the foundations or to another tableau pile.
• Build foundations upward in suit from Ace to King.
• In the tableau, build piles downward in the same suit (e.g., 5♠ on 6♠).
• Cards move to the foundations automatically once no other card could be built on them.
• This game has no stock or waste pile—use the Redeal button at any time to shuffle the tableau and deal it back out in the same pile sizes, up to two times.
• After you've used both redeals, use the Draw button once to pull one buried card to the top of its pile.

How to win

Objective: Move every card to the foundations, building each suit from Ace to King.

Win by moving all 52 cards to the foundations.

Tips

• Think ahead about which cards you need to move before reshuffling, since the redeals give you a fresh chance.
• Use the Draw feature after both redeals to dig deeper into the tableau for cards you need.

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Related games

More games from the Fan family:

• Ceiling Fan — A single-deck Fan-family game that spreads all 52 cards face up across 18 tableau piles and builds down by alternating color, making for a more open layout than standard Fan.
• Fan — A one-deck game with 18 tableau piles arranged in a fan pattern where only Kings can fill empty spaces and the entire deck is dealt at once.
• FreeFan — A single-deck game combining Fan solitaire with two temporary storage cells, adding flexibility to the traditional fan layout where only Kings can fill empty spaces.
• Intelligence — A two-deck solitaire where you arrange 18 piles of 3 cards and build them upward or downward within suit.
• Midnight Clover — Build four foundations from aces while managing a 16-pile fan where cards can only be moved from the top.