page_title: La Belle Lucie
hierarchical_section_title: La Belle Lucie
caption_attribution_description: English: A game of "Three Shuffles and a Draw" in progress. It was also taken just now using my digital camera. Captioned As { }
context_page_description: La Belle Lucie is a solitaire card game 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.
  The game is also known under the name Lovely Lucy. Other common names and closely related variants include The Fan, Clover Leaves, Three Shuffles and 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. The default rule is very hard to win. The majority of games cannot be solved. 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 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. Moving aces out has cosmetic character.
context_section_description: La Belle Lucie is a solitaire card game 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.
  The game is also known under the name Lovely Lucy.  Other common names and closely related variants include The Fan, Clover Leaves, Three Shuffles and 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. The default rule is very hard to win. The majority of games cannot be solved. 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 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.
caption: A game in progress
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