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Clock or Sundial is a luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. [1][2] It is closely related to Travellers. Clock is a purely mechanical process with no room for skill, and the chances of winning are exactly 1 in 13. [3] It has a feature described by Parlett as ' shuttling ' in which a ...
Oh hell. Oh hell or contract whist is a trick-taking card game of British origin in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid. [a] It was first described by B. C. Westall around 1930 and originally called oh! well. [1] It was said to have been introduced into America via the New York clubs in 1931. [2]
The Clock, sometimes also called German Clock to distinguish it from the similarly named shuttling game of Clock, is a game of patience or card solitaire played with 52 cards of a French deck. The game has 13 foundations for placing cards, each with a specific card value corresponding to the 12 hours of a clock.
The clock face is for visualization. Grandfather's Clock is an easy patience or solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. [1] Its foundation is akin to Clock Patience; but while winning the latter depends entirely on the luck of the draw, Grandfather's Clock has a strategic side, with the chances of winning being around 3 out of 4 ...
500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game developed in the United States from Euchre. [1] Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Misère contract similar to Russian Preference, producing a cutthroat three-player game like Preference [2] and a four-player game played in partnerships like Whist which is the most popular modern form, although with special packs it can be played ...
Thirty-one (card game) A blitz hand of three same-suit cards scoring 31, which immediately ends the game in victory when attained by a player. (The ace scores 11 and the two court cards each score 10.) Thirty-one or Trente et un is a gambling card game played by two to seven people, where players attempt to assemble a hand which totals 31.
Patolli (Nahuatl: [paˈtoːlːi]) or patole (Spanish: [paˈtole]) is one of the oldest known games in America. It was a game of strategy and luck played by commoners and nobles alike. It was reported by the conquistadors that Moctezuma Xocoyotzin often enjoyed watching his nobles play the game at court.
Go Fish. Four cards of the same face value are known as a "book", and the aim of the game is to collect these. Go Fish or Fish is a card game usually played by two to five players, [2] although it can be played with up to 10 players. It can be played in about 5 to 15 minutes.