Shamrocks is flexible but capacity-limited.

Core Shamrocks tips

• Use adjacency moves to uncover buried cards, but track fan sizes so you do not hit three-card caps too early.
• Because suit is ignored in fan building, prioritize moves that create immediate foundation candidates next turn.
• Avoid long ping-pong moves between two fans unless they expose a specific blocked rank.
• Empty fans still lock permanently, so do not sacrifice one unless the gain is concrete.
• When multiple adjacency moves exist, choose the line that preserves more distinct rank neighbors.

Most important practical rule

Treat fan capacity as a resource. A legal move that fills a key fan to three cards can be worse than passing to a foundation-first line.

Common mistake

Overusing adjacency shuffles without foundation gains quickly creates saturated fans and dead tops.