Play La Belle Lucie Solitaire Online
La Belle Lucie Solitaire brings the La Belle Lucie card game to a quiet garden table. Start with all 52 cards face up across eighteen fans, then move exposed cards onto the four suit foundations from ace to king. Twenty fixed, solvable deals give you room to plan, undo a decision and try another route.
How to play La Belle Lucie Solitaire online
- Select an exposed top card. Move it onto a card exactly one rank higher in the same suit: a six of hearts can go onto a seven of hearts.
- Send an ace to its suit foundation, followed by its two, three and so on through king. Foundation cards stay there.
- Move only one card at a time. An empty fan stays empty, even if you have a king available.
- When no card can move, use Redeal to regroup the remaining cards into fans of three. You have two redeals for the entire deal.
- For the optional Final draw rules, switch Rules before starting. After the second redeal, Choose buried selects a covered card and Use final draw lifts it to the top of that same fan, once per deal.
- Get all 52 cards onto the foundations to unlock the next deal. Undo works even after a blocked position or a completed game.
Controls
Click or tap a top card and then its destination, or drag between them. Previous fan, Next fan and Choose fan offer button controls; To foundation moves a selected eligible card home. Selecting a fan shows its cards from bottom to top in the status text. Hint highlights a single action without moving anything; Play hint carries it out. Pause, Restart, sound, Help and Full screen are available beside the board. The Rules selector switches between Classic and Final draw after confirmation. In Final draw, Choose buried cycles the eligible covered cards; the status names the selected card and fan. Use final draw confirms that choice.
A tip before you start
Look underneath a card before moving it. Freeing an ace can open its whole suit, while placing a card on another fan may bury a useful destination. Foundation-ready cards are safe to send home: every smaller card of that suit is already there.
A classic fan layout with clear limits
The initial deal contains seventeen three-card fans and one single card. Fans build down in the same suit, with only their top cards normally movable. Classic mode has no buried-card draw. Neither mode allows an extra space for a king or refills an empty fan. If both redeals are gone and no move or optional draw remains, use Undo or restart the same challenge.
Two redeals that stay the same
Each challenge stores its original 52-card deal and two shuffle orders. Redeal is available only after all legal card moves are exhausted. It shuffles the cards still outside the foundations, then deals them in groups of three. Undo and Restart keep those saved orders: the same remaining cards produce the same redeal. Restarting does not give you a luckier shuffle.
Three Shuffles and a Draw Solitaire
Choose Final draw in the Rules menu to add one buried-card lift after the second redeal. Select a covered card, then move it to the top of its own fan; it does not jump to another fan or go straight to a foundation. You may use the lift while ordinary moves remain, but only once in the deal. Both modes use the same twenty original deals and saved shuffle orders, with separate progress.
Twenty complete solutions, increasing search work
Every starting deal has a verified route that sends all 52 cards home within the two-redeal limit. In Classic mode, later challenges require more work from the same fixed solver, rising from 20 search nodes to 14,195. This is a consistent ordering of search effort, not a guarantee that every later deal feels harder. A different player move can still reach a dead end. Hints follow a known winning route when available; otherwise they run a limited search and say when the search budget is reached.
Free play on a compact garden table
Play free with no download and no ads. Desktop and portrait layouts keep the eighteen fans, foundations and necessary controls in the game window. Long fans overlap their cards; select a top card to read that fan's complete card list in the status line. Help opens in a separate dialog. There is no timer or life limit.
Frequently asked questions
La Belle Lucie solitaire: play instantly or install an app?
Play instantly in your browser. Let the artwork load to start the first complete deal. There is no account, installation or tutorial lock; open Help whenever you need the rules.
Can I move a whole fan or fill an empty one?
Neither mode moves a whole fan or refills an empty one. Normal moves use one exposed top card. Only Final draw mode can lift one buried card after the second redeal. Kings have no special empty-space privilege.
Is this Three Shuffles and a Draw?
Classic keeps the original La Belle Lucie rules. Select Final draw for the optional Three Shuffles and a Draw rules described above. Undo restores a spent draw and the prior card order; restarting keeps the same saved shuffle orders.
Does Undo change the next redeal?
Undo restores the previous position and redeal count. The two saved shuffle orders do not change. Undoing and repeating the same action therefore produces the same cards.
What does the game save?
Each mode saves its own unlocked challenges, best scores and sound setting locally when browser storage is available. Reload opens Classic on a fresh first deal; it does not resume an unfinished fan layout. Restart, level changes and mode changes ask for confirmation.
Can every position be won?
Every challenge's starting deal has a verified complete solution. A player's later choices may block that route or leave no winning continuation. Undo can recover earlier positions. A hint search that reaches its budget does not claim the position is impossible.
About La Belle Lucie Solitaire
La Belle Lucie Solitaire brings the La Belle Lucie card game to a quiet garden table. Start with all 52 cards face up across eighteen fans, then move exposed cards onto the four suit foundations from ace to king. Twenty fixed, solvable deals give you room to plan, undo a decision and try another route.
Play this puzzle / casual game in the embedded browser player. No app installation or MangoFun account is required. Follow the instructions shown inside the game; controls and device support depend on the title.
