Large Fan

104 cards
1 player
difficult

The Large Fan is a patience with a beautiful layout that is, however, not quite easy.

Table of contents

# Layout

From the well-shuffled cards, 16 overlapping groups of three are formed (see graphic). Space is left at the top for the eight Aces, below come eight groups of three, then six groups of three and finally in the middle the remaining two groups of three, so that a fan can be recognized. The stock goes in the middle.

# Objective

The Aces that appear during the game are built on in the same suit ascending up to the King.

# Gameplay

Only the face-up and fully visible cards in the groups of three may be used. In this patience, individual playable cards may be moved descending to other groups of three, where red is placed on red and black on black. This means: on , on , on and vice versa, the same with black cards. As a result, these groups of three can also become much longer.

In the Large Fan, it’s important that Aces and followers from the semi-covered cards are played out in time.

As soon as a group of three has been completely resolved and a free space has been created, it is filled with a new group of three from the stock. Free spaces may never be used to move cards in this patience!

When no more moves are possible, the layout is collected according to a specific rule: You always start with the rightmost outer groups of three, push them together face-down and place them under the stock until no more groups of three are laid out. Then you form 16 new groups of three (or fewer if there aren’t that many cards left) from the top of the stock and make the normal moves.

If nothing more is possible again, the process may be repeated once more.

# Summary

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