Shamrocks

How Shamrocks plays

One deck fills seventeen three-card fans and one one-card fan. Only top cards move. A card may land on a fan top one rank above or below it regardless of suit. Each fan may hold at most three cards; an empty fan cannot be refilled. There are no redeals.

Watch fan capacity

A receiving fan with two cards can accept one legal card, then becomes full. Compare what the move exposes with what it covers. Foundations build upward by suit from Ace.

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Related games

Shamrocks is part of Old Town · Fans (La Belle Lucie) and is a variant of La Belle Lucie.

More Fans (La Belle Lucie) games

• La Belle Lucie — Eighteen fans, strict suit-down building.
• House in the Woods — Thirty-five fans build both ways in suit without redeals.
• The Fan — No-redeal La Belle Lucie, kings fill empty fans.
• Three Shuffles and a Draw — La Belle Lucie with a final merci draw.
• Trefoil — La Belle Lucie with aces pre-extracted.
• House on the Hill — Eight foundations start on Aces or Kings beneath thirty-five fans.

Also try

• Gaps (Grid & sequence puzzles) — Fill four rows of gaps to build 2–K suit runs. No aces, three passes.
• Klondike (Klondike family) — The patience everyone knows. Draw 1 or 3.
• Seahaven Towers (FreeCell & open packers) — FreeCell cousin: ten columns, same-suit builds, two cells.

Learn

• Shamrocks specialist strategy
• How Fans (La Belle Lucie) games work
• Terms: Building · Regardless of suit · Open deal · Fan · Single-card moves
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