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Soltrio Solitaire
Soltrio Solitaire is an Xbox Live Arcade title developed by Silver Creek Entertainment for the Xbox 360, which is a bundle of 18 separate solitaire card games, which was released on May 16, 2007. Gameplay The game supports the Xbox Live Vision camera and has 2 player multiplayer over System Link or Xbox Live, including competitive solitaire in which two players use the same foundation piles, and co-operative solitaire, in which players assist one another and pass cards over. The game features a light roleplaying mode called "Voyage Adventure" in which the player traverses a game map to play solitaire games, which includes the ability to unlock new card elements and design customizable deck graphics. The game featured downloadable content in the form of solitaire card game packs every two weeks until October 3, 2007, using games found in Silver Creek's ''Hardwood Solitaire'' title for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Critical reception IGN rated ''Soltrio'' as "mediocre". Some g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Creek Entertainment
Silver Creek Entertainment is a U.S.-based game developer of classic card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card ga ...s. It was established in 1994. The company released games for Xbox Live Arcade, Windows and Mac OS X: * ''Hardwood Solitaire III'' (PC, Mac) * ''Ruckus Bucks's Dangerous Mines'' (Xbox, PC, Mac) * ''Hardwood Solitaire IV'' (iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle, PC, Mac, AppleTV) * ''Hardwood Backgammon'' (Xbox 360, iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle, PC, Mac, AppleTV) * ''Hardwood Hearts (game), Hearts'' (Xbox 360, iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle, PC, Mac, AppleTV) * ''Hardwood Spades (card game), Spades'' (Xbox 360, iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle, PC, Mac, AppleTV) * ''Hardwood Euchre'' (iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle, PC, Mac, AppleTV) * ''Video Poker Duel'' (iOS, Android, Nook, Kindl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandfather's Clock
Grandfather's Clock is an easy patience or solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. 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 games, especially if careful consideration is given to which cards would be released in instances where you have a choice of plays between identical cards. Rules Before the game begins, the following cards are taken out of the deck: , , , , , , , , , , , . They are then arranged in a circular fashion like a clock face with the on the " five o' clock" position, on the "six o' clock" position, and so on."Grandfather's Clock" in These cards will be the foundations. The remaining cards are then shuffled and dealt into eight columns of five cards each on the tableau. The object of the game is to distribute the cards to the foundations to the point that the top cards of the foundation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golf (solitaire)
Golf, also known as One Foundation, is a patience or solitaire card game where players try to earn the lowest number of points (as in golf, the sport) over the course of nine deals (or "holes", also borrowing from golf terminology). It has a tableau of 35 face-up cards and a higher ratio of skill to luck than most other solitaire card games. Its easy game-play also makes it within easy reach of first-timers, while still offering scope for strategic play. Rules Setup From a standard 52-card deck, 7 columns of 5 cards each are dealt, all face up and with indices visible. This is the tableau. One additional card is dealt as the base of the foundation. The remaining 16 cards are turned face down to form the stock. Play Rules are as follows: * Only the topmost card in each column (closest to the player) may be removed from the tableau. When it is removed, the card beneath becomes available for play. * Cards may be moved from the tableau to the foundation if they are either one ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol (solitaire)
Bristol is a Patience game using a deck of 52 playing cards."Bristol" (p.30) in ''Little Giant Encyclopedia of Games for One or Two'', The Diagram Group, 1998. It is a fan-type game in the style of La Belle Lucie. It has an unusual feature of building regardless of suit on both the foundations and on the tableau; it is also one of the easiest to win. It was invented by Morehead & Mott-Smith.Parlett (1979), p. 252. Rules Eight piles (or fans) of three cards each are dealt onto the tableau. Any king that is not on the bottom of its pile is placed underneath. Then three cards are placed under these piles. These form the bases for the three reserve piles. Whenever an ace becomes available, it becomes a foundation, on which it can be built up regardless of suit up to a King. The same is done on the three other aces. The top card of each pile on the tableau and the top card of each reserve pile is available to be built on the foundations and around the tableau. Like the foundations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitehead (solitaire)
Klondike, also known as Canfield, is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the patience or solitaire family, something which "defies explanation" as it has one of the lowest rates of success of any such game.Parlett (1979), pp. 94–95. Partly because of that, it has spawned numerous variants including Batsford, Easthaven, King Albert, Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk and Whitehead, as well as the American variants of the games, Agnes and Westcliff. The distinguishing feature of all variants is a triangular layout of the tableau, building in ascending sequence and packing in descending order.Coops (1939), p. 10. Name In the U.S. and Canada, it is so well known that the term Solitaire, in the absence of qualifiers, typically refers to Klondike. Equally in the UK, it is often just known as "Patience". Elsewhere the game is known as American Patience. Historically Klondike was also called Canfield in America, perhaps because it was a casino ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canfield (solitaire)
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". It was popularised in the United States in the early 20th century as a result of a story that casino owner Richard A. Canfield had turned it into a gambling game, although it may actually have been Klondike and not Demon that was played at his casino. As a result it became known as Canfield in the United States, while continuing to be called Demon Patience in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. It is closely related to Klondike, and is one of the most popular games of its type. History The game is first recorded in 1891 in England by Mary Whitmore Jones as Demon Patience. She describes it as "by far the best game for one pack that has yet been invented," and goes on to say that its "very uncomplimentary name" seems to derive from its ability to frustr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Tommy
Sir Tommy, also called Old Patience, is a patience or solitaire card game using a single pack of 52 playing cards. It is said to be the ancestor of all patiences, hence its alternative title. It is a half-open, planner type of patience game in the same family of card-building games as Calculation and Strategy. It is also known as Try Again and Numerica. Rules Cards are dealt one at a time. When an ace turns up, it forms a foundation which builds up to King regardless of suit. Four such foundations should be built. A card that cannot yet be placed on the foundation is placed onto one of four wastepiles; once placed, it cannot be moved, but the top card of each wastepile remains available to be placed on a foundation. The game is won if all cards are emptied from the wastepiles and built on the foundations. Strategy To achieve a win, skilled players typically reserve one wastepile for Kings and for other high cards, and trying to avoid trapping a lower-ranked card under all four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Milligan
Miss Milligan is a patience game which is played using two decks of playing cards, and is one of the most popular of the double-deck games. According to Peter Arnold, author of ''Card Games for One'', this classic game's enduring popularity is in part due to its amazing tendency to enable complete recovery from seemingly hopeless positions. Winning chances with good play are about 1 in 20 games."Miss Milligan" (p.201) in ''Hoyle's Rules of Games'' (3rd edition) by Philip D. Morehead (ed.), 2001. Rules First, eight cards are dealt in a row; they are bases for eight columns in the game. Any ace that becomes available is put onto the foundations, to be built up by suit. Other cards are built down by alternating color. One card can be moved at a time, although a sequence can also be moved in part or in whole as one unit. When an empty column occurs, only a King or a sequence starting with a King can be placed on it. When no more moves can be made, a new set of eight cards is dealt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clock Patience
Clock or Sundial is a luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. 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. It has a feature described by Parlett as ' shuttling' in which a card is placed at the bottom of a pile and the next card to be played comes off the top of the same pile.Parlett (1979), p. 185. Names This game was known in the 19th century as The Clock, but the name has since been shortened to Clock. It was a variation of Wandering Card, an old game of European origin.Cheney (1869), pp. 66–69. Some sources give alternative names as Hidden Cards, Four of a Kind and Travellers.Moyse (1950), pp. 15–16. However, Four of a Kind has a different layout and mechanism, whilst Hidden Cards and Travellers are also variations of Wandering Card with different layouts and shuttling procedures from Clock. There are othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zodiac (solitaire)
Zodiac is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards shuffled together. An old game, it first appeared in Lady Adelaide Cadogan's book ''Illustrated Games of Patience''. It is so-named probably because of its "globe"-shaped layout. It had many variations until its rules were standardized in 1914. Rules First, eight cards are dealt in a row. They form the cells which make up the reserve, or the " Equator". Each reserve cell can only hold one card. Then twenty four cards are dealt in a circle surrounding the Equator to form the tableau, or the "Zodiac The zodiac is a belt-shaped region of the sky that extends approximately 8° north or south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year. The pat ...." The game is divided into two phases: the first phases consists of playing the rest of the cards into the Zodiac and the Equator; the second phase is the bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flower Garden (solitaire)
The Flower Garden is an old patience or card solitaire using a single deck of 52 playing cards, and is based on an old Japanese game. It was first called Le Parterre, but is also known under the names The Bouquet and The Garden. The terms used in this game are related to gardening. Some skill is needed to successfully complete the game, and skilful players can win more than 20% of the time. Rules Thirty-six cards are dealt in to six columns, each containing six cards. The columns are called the "flower beds" and the entire tableau is sometimes called "the garden." The sixteen leftover cards become the reserve, or "the bouquet." Some sources instead refer to this reserve as the "seeds", and the built-up foundations as the "bouquets"."Flower Garden" (p.138) in ''The Playing Card Kit'' by Richard Craze, Simon & Schuster, 1995. The top cards of each flower-bed and all of the cards in the bouquet are available for play. Cards can only be moved one at a time and can be built e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider (solitaire)
Spider is a type of patience game, and is one of the more popular two-deck solitaire games. The game originates in 1949, and its name comes from a spider's eight legs, referencing the eight foundation piles that must be filled to win the game. Rules The main purpose of the game is to remove all cards from the table, assembling them in the tableau before removing them. Initially, 54 cards are dealt to the tableau in ten piles, face down except for the top cards. The tableau piles build down by rank, and in-suit sequences can be moved together. The 50 remaining cards can be dealt to the tableau ten at a time when none of the piles are empty. A typical Spider layout requires the use of two decks. The Tableau consists of 10 stacks, with 6 cards in the first 4 stacks, with the 6th card face up, and 5 cards in the remaining 6 stacks, with the 5th card face up. Each time the stock is used it deals out one card to each stack. Variants Given its popularity, numerous Spider variants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
