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Deal seventeen three-card fans La Belle Lucie style, build down by rank alone instead of suit, and lean on two shuffled redeals to dig out buried cards.
Super Flower Garden Solitaire crosses two old favorites. From Flower Garden it borrows the rule that the tableau builds down by rank alone, ignoring suit entirely. From La Belle Lucie — the fan game Lady Cadogan popularized in the 1870s, once known as Midnight Oil or simply The Fan — it borrows the layout of seventeen little fans of three cards plus a lone straggler, along with the mercy of a shuffled redeal.
That redeal is the heart of the game. La Belle Lucie is strict: you may only move the exposed top card of each fan, empty fans stay empty, and there is no stock to draw from. Sooner or later you get stuck. When that happens, you gather every card still lying in the fans, shuffle them together, and deal fresh fans of three. Super Flower Garden grants this rescue twice, which is why it wins far more often than the merciless single-deal Flower Garden it is named for.
Because building down needs no matching suit, sequences come together more readily here than in La Belle Lucie, where the same suit is required. The skill lies in timing: which fans to unpack before a redeal, and which Aces to free early so the foundations can grow.
Super Flower Garden sits beside La Belle Lucie Solitaire, Trefoil Solitaire, and the classic Flower Garden Solitaire — try them all to feel how one small rule reshapes a whole game.
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How to play Super Flower Garden Solitaire
Layout:
4 foundation piles: Build up in suit from the Ace to the King. Aces move up as soon as they are free.
18 fans: Fifty-two cards are dealt face-up into seventeen fans of three cards and one single card. Only the top card of each fan is playable. Empty fans are not refilled.
Redeal: When you run out of moves, gather all the cards remaining in the fans, shuffle them together, and deal them again into fresh fans of three. You may do this twice.
Foundation:
There are four foundation piles, one per suit, and they are empty at the start.
A card can be added to a foundation only if it's one rank higher and the same suit as the pile's current top card. Every foundation begins with an Ace, so the only card that can start a pile is an Ace, and the only card that fits on the 8 of hearts is the 9 of hearts. A pile is complete once it holds all thirteen cards of its suit.
Cards cannot be taken back from the foundation after they have been placed.
Tableau:
Eighteen fans dealt at the start. Every card is dealt face-up.
A card can be added to a fan only if it's one rank lower than the fan's current top card, regardless of suit — this is the Flower Garden trait that sets the game apart, so any 7 fits on any 8. Only the exposed top card of a fan may be moved, and only one card moves at a time; sequences are not carried as a unit.
Cards on the tableau that are not covered may be played onto the foundation or onto another fan. Once a fan is emptied, its space stays open — nothing is dealt to fill it.
Redeal:
When no more useful moves remain, collect every card still sitting in the fans, shuffle the whole batch, and deal it out again into new fans of three. This shuffled redeal is allowed a total of two times, giving you fresh arrangements to break up buried sequences and free the cards you need.
