La Belle Lucie Solitaire. Description: La Belle Lucie is one of the great classic games of solitaire. The goal is to move all the cards to the foundations in ascending order by suit. Instructions: Move all cards to the four foundations at the top by suit from A to K. The 18 piles under the foundations should be built down by suit. La Belle Lucie is a solitaire card game in which a 52 card deck is dealt into 18 piles (17 piles of 3 and a singleton). The foundations in this game must be started with the Aces, and built up to Kings by suit. La Belle Lucie is a pile based solitaire card game played with 18 piles where you can shuffle the cards that have not been placed in the foundations up to 3 times per game.
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La Belle Lucie is a deceptively complex game with simple rules which requires considerable forethought and fortunate reshuffling to win. One 'cheat' (also called a merci) is allowed per game. Layout
La Belle Lucie is a deceptively complex game with simple rules which requires considerable forethought and fortunate reshuffling to win. One 'cheat' (also called a merci) is allowed per game. Layout
There are two areas of the screen: Building Stacks There are eighteen building stacks are arranged in two rows. The first seventeen stacks intially contain three cards and the last stack starts with one card. The building stacks accept cards in descending rank with the same suit. Once a card has been moved between building stacks, it can be moved only to its suit stack. Since a card cannot be moved multiple times between building stacks, care should be taken to ensure that the cards below the top of a building stack are not needed immediately because they will become inaccessible after a card has been moved on top of it. The buried cards cannot be reached until the cards above have been moved to their suit stack. Empty stacks do not accept any cards unless the option in the dialog box has been set allowing kings to be moved to empty spaces.
Suit Stacks
The four suit stacks occupy the left column of the screen and accept cards in ascending rank of the same suit. While moving cards between building stacks requires much consideration, a card can be moved to its suit stack without any forethought. Since a card can be moved to its suit stack only if all cards which can be placed on it are already in their suit stack, no moves will be precluded by removing a card from the building stacks. The movement of cards to the suit stacks will be done automatically unless the game settings are changed.
Moving Cards
To move a card between stacks, simply click on the source stack, highlighting it, and then click on the destination stack.
Redealing
When no more moves are possible in the building stacks, clicking the redeal button will take all cards currently in the building stacks and reshuffle them. The shuffled cards will then be redistributed into stacks of three cards with any remaining cards going into the final stack. Two reshuffles are normally allowed, but this can be changed using the options dialog box. The number of remaining reshuffles is indicated in the row containing the buttons.
Mercis
A normally invalid move (called a merci) is allowed after the final redeal. After the last reshuffle, a card from below the top of a stack can be drawn out a building stack and placed on any other stack (including its original stack). A card from below the top of a stack can also be moved to a suit stack if the suit stack accepts it. When a merci is possible, the area which normally indicates the deal number will indicate the number of remaining mercis. The number of mercis can be set to more than one with the options dialog box. No mercis are allowed if the number of redeals is set to unlimited.
Strategy
After starting a game or reshuffling, there are three types of stacks upon which cards can be moved without blocking any additional cards: Stacks containing only one card.
Stacks with a king on top (if moving kings to empty spaces is not allowed)
Stacks whose top cards are ordered after shuffling due to luck
After all possible cards have been placed on cards falling into the above three categories, subsequent moves will result in blocking more cards. Try to build the longest possible sequences as this will result in the smallest number of stacks being blocked. It might be necessary to build a sequence shorter than possible if the stack it is build on contains cards which will be needed soon.
Once it has been determined that the cards which the suit stacks will currently accept are blocked, click redeal (or begin a new game) because any following moves are pointless.
Options
Click on the button labeled options to bring up a dialog box with the following settings: Number of Redeals
This option determines the number of in-game reshuffles which are allowed.
Number of Mercis
This option controls how many normally invalid moves can be made during after the final reshuffle.
Allow moving kings to empty spaces
If this checkbox is set, kings can be moved to empty spaces
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Privacy Policy
Last modified:May 10, 2018
Summary Version
This is my personal attempt to tell you what we collect in short form. The bottom line is we leave some cookies and local data on your machine in order to do things like track scores and game progress. At times we store some game related data on servers in order to provide save that data for later use. An example of this is when we had a “create your own layout” option for our Mahjong game. The layouts were saved to a server along with a description and title you provided. We use services from other organizations to build our web stack, and these organizations have access to your data as you use our website and have their own Privacy Policies that you should also look into for a full understanding.
We are currently working to remove all social tags (e.g. facebook like buttons) from our web sites. Until that process is complete pages that still have social tags will allow those social networks to track you on our websites.
We use Amazon Web Services and GoDaddy to host our web servers, giving them access to our log data.
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Long Form Version
When you are using games on the BattleLine Games LLC. Website, Games, and other Apps there are many different ways you generate and share information with us. In addition you may also be sharing information with other organizations such as Google and we will list the other privacy policies that you should read in order to understand how they use your personal data.
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This Privacy Policy explains:
- What information we collect and why we collect it.
- How we use that information.
- What other organizations are using your information.
Information we collect
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We collect information in the following ways:
Information you give us. In some games and services you provide us with information concerning the game. An example of this is our “build your own layout” tool. This information is stored in a database so that others can play the layout you created.
Information we get from your use of our services. We use Amazon Web Services and GoDaddy to host our web servers. Those services provide us access to quite a bit of data. We use that data to try and provide better service.
Device information
We've used information related to screen size, and browser type to provide a better experince for users with different screen sizes.
Log information
BattleLine Games does not host it's own web servers. We use Amazon Web Services and GoDaddy to provide us with web servers, and those services are logging information that includes:
- Internet protocol addressdevice event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
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- Local storageWe collect information locally required for the games and apps you are playing. This data includes information like high scores, best times, game coins accumulated and other information used to improve experience.
- Cookies for game related dataSome of our older games use cookies instead of local storage for storing game related data.
Personal Information
We do not currently collect personal information. Log data collected by our web hosting providers (Amazon and GoDaddy) could potentially be used to personally identify you. Unfortunately we do not control the use of that information. It is also possible information collected by Google for placing ads and analyitics could be used to personally identify you. You will need to consult the privacy policies of our vendors (links provided at top of page) to understand how they manage your data.
How we use information we collect
BattleLine Games llc., does not collect sensitive information such as race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. We collect information related to apps and games that we use to improve the game experience. This information includes score and game play related information. Some of our vendors such as Google, Amazon, and GoDaddy collect your information while you are using our games. Google has provided it's own privacy policy that you should consult to understand the data they collect and use. Amazon and GoDaddy has access to server based log data which may include information such as user location information and IP Address.
Information sharing
Most of the information we collect is stored locally on your machine and is not aggregated or shared. You can configure your browser to block cookies to prevent the storing of this data, but it will have an effect on your user experience. Information collected to create personalized versions of your game is typically shared publicly, such as when you create a personalized version of our word search game. That word search is made public on the Internet to anyone who would like to play. Information collected by our vendors, Google for Ads and Analytics, Amazon and GoDaddy for web hosting may be shared by those companies with other vendors based on their own privacy policies.
Social Tags
We are currently in the process of removing all social tags (e.g. facebook like buttons) from our websites. Some pages may contain social tags that have not been removed yet. These social tags allow companies like facebook to track your progress through our site. For many reasons we have decided to remove these tags from our web pages. During this process, you may encounter social tags on some of our web pages.
Information security
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