Three Blind Mice deals a single pack into ten columns of five. The first seven columns are open to the felt; the last three hide three cards beneath two. One card then goes to each of the two reserves, and the pack is spent.
The two reserves are the whole margin in this game. Each accepts a card and hands it back, so they work as a pair of spare squares. With no stock behind you, they are also the only slack you will ever get, so spend them on cards that have somewhere to return to.
You build downwards in suit: a card may land on the card one rank above it of the same suit, and only of the same suit. When a column contains a complete run from king down to ace, all of one suit, that run leaves the board and counts as one collected set. Gather all four sets and the game is won. There are no foundation piles to feed one card at a time; the run is assembled in the tableau itself and removed whole.
The Scorpion move is the whole character of this line, and it is worth stating plainly. In almost every other solitaire you may only lift a tidy sequence. Here you may lift any face-up card, and every card resting on it comes along, in whatever jumbled order it happens to be. A king with a stray four and a nine piled on top travels as a unit of three. Nothing is asked of the tail beyond every card in it being face up.
The strategy that follows from this is unusual. Because a disordered tail travels, burying a card is far less permanent than it looks; what actually costs you the game is a card trapped under a face-down one, because you cannot carry what you cannot see. So the opening priority is always the same: turn hidden cards over. Prefer any move that exposes a face-down card, even a move that looks untidy, and be suspicious of a move that merely rearranges cards you can already see.
Before touching a card, count the face-down cards in each column. Those numbers are the real difficulty of the deal, and they tell you where the work is. Look for cards of the same suit sitting one rank apart in different columns, because those are the joins that will eventually become a collected set. Look also for aces buried deep: an ace is the last card of a set and a set cannot leave the board without it, so an ace under four face-down cards is a problem you will have to solve eventually and may as well start on early.
The first is treating the Scorpion move as a free pass. It is powerful, but every card you pile onto a column is a card sitting above something else, and depth eventually becomes its own obstacle. The second is chasing a tidy-looking sequence at the cost of leaving a face-down card buried; sequences can always be rebuilt, whereas a hidden card that never gets uncovered ends the game. The third is emptying a column with no plan for it. A space is the most valuable thing on the board, and filling it back in with the first card that fits usually wastes it.
This is a thinking game rather than a fast one. Most deals reward slow, deliberate play, and a single careless move early can quietly decide the outcome twenty moves later. Use undo freely while you are learning the shape of the board — the point is to understand why a line of play failed, not to protect a statistic.