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2. Patience (game) - Wikipedia

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   Although the name solitaire became common in North America for this type of game during the 20th century, British games scholar David Parlett notes that there are good reasons for preferring the name 'patience'. Firstly, a patience is a card game, whereas a solitaire is any one-player game, including those played with dominoes or peg and board ...

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. 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 ...

5. Canfield (solitaire) - Wikipedia

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   Canfield (US) or Demon (UK) is a patience or solitaire card game with a very low probability of winning. It is an English game first called Demon Patience and described as "the best game for one pack that has yet been invented".

6. Spider (solitaire) - Wikipedia

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   Spider is a type of patience game, [1] [2] and is one of the more popular two-deck solitaire games. The game originated in 1949, and its name comes from a spider's eight legs, referencing the eight foundation piles that must be filled in order to win.

7. Glossary of patience terms - Wikipedia

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   The card forming the starting point of the required sequence is known as the foundation card and the sequence or family is said to be 'built up' on such card. In some cases foundation cards are picked out and placed in position beforehand; in others they are only laid down as they come to hand in course of play.