IanShamrocks Soliatire
December 5th 2011 01:16
Shamrocks is a solitaire or patience game akin to La Belle Lucie. The object is the same as the latter: move the cards into the foundations.
The game is layout out as in La Belle Lucie: seventeen piles of three cards are placed on the table with one card counting as an eighteenth. Any card that can be moved to the foundations should be moved and built up by suit (starting from the ace). The top card of each pile can be used for play and once a pile is empty, it cannot be refilled.
But its similarity to La Belle Lucie ends there. Before the game begins, each King which is on top or middle of its respective pile is placed underneath. (Morehead and Mott-Smith's rules to the game specifically states that a King that is on top of a lower-ranked card of the same suit should be placed under that lower-ranked card, no matter what else in its pile.) To play on the tableau, a card can be placed over a card that is one rank higher or lower, regardless of suit. However, each pile can hold no more than three cards at a time; thus no card can be placed on a pile with three cards.
The game is won when all of the cards have been moved to the foundations.
Genre: Patience/ Solitaire
Time to Play: 1 hour
Difficulty: hard
Available from: Scientific Psychic
Play Shamrocks here.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Shamrocks.
The game is layout out as in La Belle Lucie: seventeen piles of three cards are placed on the table with one card counting as an eighteenth. Any card that can be moved to the foundations should be moved and built up by suit (starting from the ace). The top card of each pile can be used for play and once a pile is empty, it cannot be refilled.
But its similarity to La Belle Lucie ends there. Before the game begins, each King which is on top or middle of its respective pile is placed underneath. (Morehead and Mott-Smith's rules to the game specifically states that a King that is on top of a lower-ranked card of the same suit should be placed under that lower-ranked card, no matter what else in its pile.) To play on the tableau, a card can be placed over a card that is one rank higher or lower, regardless of suit. However, each pile can hold no more than three cards at a time; thus no card can be placed on a pile with three cards.
Genre: Patience/ Solitaire
Time to Play: 1 hour
Difficulty: hard
Available from: Scientific Psychic
Play Shamrocks here.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Shamrocks.
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