The Fan

How The Fan plays

One deck fills seventeen three-card fans and one one-card fan. Only top cards move. Foundations build upward in suit from Ace; fan cards build down in the same suit. A King may enter an empty fan, but other ranks cannot. There are no redeals.

Choose a King destination

A King in an empty fan creates a new place for its suit's Queen. Compare that route with the card the King exposes in its old fan. The gap becomes occupied, so choose a move with a clear follow-up.

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Related games

The Fan 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.
• Shamrocks — Fan variant with rank-adjacent tableau moves.
• 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

• Beleaguered Castle (Castle games) — Eight columns flanking four aces.
• Calculation (Waste-pile builders) — Race four foundations built by fixed increments.
• Canfield (Canfield family) — Compact reserve patience with wrap-around foundations.

Learn

• The Fan strategy supplement
• How Fans (La Belle Lucie) games work
• Terms: Empty column · Kings only · Building · Same-suit build · Open deal
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