Best of
Best Hard Luck-Based Games
Hard-difficulty picks among luck-based games.
La Belle Lucie
The entire deck is dealt into fans of three cards, with up to two redeals allowed to untangle what's left.
- One deck
- 10 min
- Hard
Shamrocks
Eighteen fans capped at three cards each, built up or down with suit ignored — and no redeal to save you.
- One deck
- 10 min
- Hard
Salic Law
Queens are discarded and the eight Kings become column bases, with Aces building up to Jacks in the middle.
- 2 decks
- 12 min
- Hard
Crazy Quilt
A woven 8x8 quilt where only cards with a short edge free can be played, to Aces building up and Kings building down.
- 2 decks
- 18 min
- Hard