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  2. Klondike (solitaire) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of patience games - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Glossary of patience terms - Wikipedia

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    The cards thus paired are thrown aside and, if the player is able, under the limitations of the particular game, to throw out all the cards in this way, the game is won. A third object is to throw out or dispose of any two cards which together form a particular number, say eleven or thirteen–the player's success, as before, depending on being ...

  5. Category:Patience games - Wikipedia

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    A Patience or Card Solitaire game is one in which the object is to sort a pack or packs of cards into a given order by following specific rules. These games comprise single player patiences (solitaires) and competitive patiences.

  6. Renal physiology - Wikipedia

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    This illustration demonstrates the normal kidney physiology, including the Proximal Convoluted Tubule (PCT), Loop of Henle, and Distal Convoluted Tubule (DCT). It also includes illustrations showing where some types of diuretics act, and what they do. Renal physiology (Latin renes, "kidneys") is the study of the physiology of the kidney.

  7. Russian bank (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Russian bank, crapette or tunj, historically also called the wrangle, [1] is a card game for two players from the patience family. It is played with two decks of 52 standard playing cards . [ 2 ] The U.S. Playing Card Company, who first published its rules in 1898, called it "probably the best game for two players ever invented".

  8. Patience sorting - Wikipedia

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    The algorithm's name derives from a simplified variant of the patience card game. The game begins with a shuffled deck of cards. The cards are dealt one by one into a sequence of piles on the table, according to the following rules. [2] Initially, there are no piles. The first card dealt forms a new pile consisting of the single card.

  9. Testing effect - Wikipedia

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    First, only the question is displayed. Then the answer is displayed too, for verification. The testing effect (also known as retrieval practice, active recall, practice testing, or test-enhanced learning) [1] [2] [3] suggests long-term memory is increased when part of the learning period is devoted to retrieving information from memory. [4]