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Klondike is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the patience or solitaire family, [2] as well as one of the most challenging in widespread play. [3] It has spawned numerous variants including Batsford , Easthaven, King Albert , Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk and Whitehead, as well as the American variants ...
Scorpion II is an alternate version of the game in which the number of columns containing three face-down cards and the number of columns in which all cards are faced up are the reverse of the prevalent version, i.e. the first three columns each have three face-down cards with four face-up cards placed over them while the cards in the remaining four columns are all faced up.
A patience game under way (Herz zu Herz) This is a list of patiences, which are card games that are also referred to as solitaires or as card solitaire. This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but only includes games that have met the usual Wikipedia requirements (e.g. notability). Additions should only be made if there is an existing entry ...
Russian Solitaire is a solitaire card game that is very similar in layout and play to Yukon. Its difference from Yukon is that building is by suit. [2] [3] The game should not be confused with Nidgi Novgorod, first recorded in the 1903 American Hoyle and also sometimes called Russian Solitaire, which is a simple, one-pack, non-builder, [4] nor with Russian Patience, first described in 1876 ...
The stock is dealt one card at a time, and only two passes through the pack are allowed, making this a difficult game to win. The game is won after all the cards have been moved to the foundations. Variations. In the Aisleriot (Linux app) version of the game, cards from the Backbone cannot be played onto an empty stack.
An individual game of Elevens is a game of pure chance, except for the small element of skill involved in spotting the pairs; the skill and strategic interest comes in not shuffling the cards at the end of each game, but instead collecting them up in order.
Blockade is a patience or card solitaire game that uses two packs of 52 playing cards each. As in most patiences, the object is to play the cards into foundations. The play is reminiscent of the popular game, Forty Thieves, but with 12 piles instead of 10. Rules. The game starts with twelve piles, each containing a card; the rest form the stock.
Osmosis (also known as Treasure Trove) is a solitaire game played with a deck of 52 playing cards. The object, like many solitaire games, is to put the cards into foundations, although not in numerical order. [1] The name of the game reflects the fact that cards of the same value slowly filter through to successive foundations by osmosis.