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La Belle Lucie's fan layout, minus the redeals: seventeen three-card fans dealt once, no do-overs. Medium difficulty, single deck, 50-50 odds.
Linus Solitaire takes La Belle Lucie's fan layout and strips out the safety net. It's medium difficulty, with no redeal: the 17 three-card fans (plus one lone card) get dealt once, and you build down in alternating colors with whatever you're given. You'll win about 50% of those deals. It's played with a single deck, and reading the fans well matters more than luck.
Other solitaire games comparable to this one include La Belle Lucie Solitaire, Three Shuffles and a Draw, and Fan Solitaire.
When you want redeals back, the classic Solitaire has them.
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How to play Linus Solitaire
Layout:
4 foundation piles: Build up from Ace to King in the same suit.
18 fans: Seventeen fans of three cards plus one single-card fan, all dealt face-up. Alternate-color construction; only one card can be moved at a time, and empty fans stay empty.
Stock: None. There is no redeal in Linus, so whatever you're dealt is what you play.
Foundation:
There are four foundation piles, one for each suit.
An Ace starts a foundation. A card can be added only if it's one rank higher and the same suit as the pile's current top card, so the only card that fits on a Q of spades is a K of spades.
The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.
Tableau:
Eighteen fans make up the tableau: seventeen of three cards each, plus one with a single card, all dealt face-up.
A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower and the opposite color of the pile's current top card, so the only cards that fit on the 6 of hearts are the 5 of spades and 5 of clubs.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card can be played onto the foundation or any non-empty tableau pile.
The tableau's empty spaces may not be filled.
Only one card may be moved at a time; sequences are not permitted.
