Rules for Bear River Solitaire

Description:

A Fan variation where you can build up and down in suit, but are limited to three cards per pile.

Cards:

One standard deck. Since colors don't matter, politaire substitutes a four-color deck of cards.

The rank of the lowest and highest card will be determined by the first card played into the foundation.

Goal:

Move all cards to the foundation.

Foundation:

Four foundation piles.

A random card will be dealt to a foundation pile. This is the base card. Start the remaining piles with cards of same rank.

A card may be added onto a foundation pile if it is one higher than the old top card of the pile and of the same suit.Thus, the only card that could be played on a 9♥ would be a 10♥.

Once on the foundation, cards may not be moved back off..

Tableau:

Fifteen tableau piles of three cards each, splayed downward. All cards are dealt face up.

A card may be added onto a tableau pile if it is one higher than or one lower than the old top card of the pile and of the same suit.Thus, the cards that could be played on J♦ would be 10♦ or Q♦.

Cards on the tableau that are not under another card are available for play onto the foundation, any non-empty tableau pile or any hole pile.

Empty spaces in the tableau may not be filled.

Only one card may moved at a time, never sequences.

Hole:

Three hole piles of two cards each, splayed downward. All cards are dealt face up.

A card may be added onto a hole pile if it is one higher than or one lower than the old top card of the pile and of the same suit.Thus, the cards that could be played on 7♥ would be 6♥ or 8♥.

Cards on the hole that are not under another card are available for play onto the foundation, any non-empty tableau pile or any other hole pile.

Empty spaces in the hole may be filled by any card.

Technically, only one card may be moved at a time, but if you enable supermoves politaire will allow you to move sequences when there are enough empty hole columns so that it would be possible to achieve the same end by a sequence of single card moves.

Similar Games:

Shamrocks (Play) (Rules)

A variation of Fan where you can build up or down regardless of suit, but are limited to three cards per stack.

Fan (Play) (Rules)

The original Fan game involves building in suit on eighteen tableau piles.

Lucky Fan (Play) (Rules)

A version of FreeFan in which no fan may hold more than three cards.

References:

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