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The Clock (solitaire)
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. Four layers of cards in alternating colours are built on each foundation. Rules One French deck of 52 cards, without the Jokers, is used. All the Aces will be placed at the 1 o'clock position of an imaginary clock, all the Queens at 12 o'clock, and all the Kings in the centre. In the accompanying image from a software implementation of this game, both the stock and waste are inside the Clock; when playing the game with a real deck, you would hold the stock in your hand and put the waste outside the Clock. The foundation base suit is determined by the first card drawn and played. Cards are then drawn one by one from the stock. Foundations are built by alternating colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuttling (patience Term)
Games of patience, or (card) solitaires as they are usually called in North America, have their own 'language' of specialised terms such as "building down", "packing", "foundations", "talon" and "tableau". Once learnt they are helpful in describing, succinctly and accurately, how the games are played. Patience games are usually for a single player, although a small number have been designed for two and, in rare cases, three or even four players. They are games of skill or chance or a combination of the two. There are three classes of patience grouped by object. The most frequent object is to arrange the cards either in ascending sequence (e.g. from Ace to King) or descending sequence. Occasionally both forms of sequence are aimed at in the same game. 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 positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clock (card Game)
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] |
Patience (game)
Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are also "excellent games of patience for two or more players". Name 'Patience' is the earliest recorded name for this type of card game in both British and American sources. The word is French in origin, these games being "regarded as an exercise in patience." 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 games. Secondly, any game of patience may be played competitively by two or more players. Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Card Solitaire
Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are also "excellent games of patience for two or more players". Name 'Patience' is the earliest recorded name for this type of card game in both British and American sources. The word is French in origin, these games being "regarded as an exercise in patience." 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 games. Secondly, any game of patience may be played competitively by two or more players. Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
52 Cards
The standard 52-card deck of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. In English-speaking countries it is the only traditional pack used for playing cards; in many countries of the world, however, it is used alongside other traditional, often older, standard packs with different suit systems such as those with German-, Italian-, Spanish- or Swiss suits. The most common pattern of French-suited cards worldwide and the only one commonly available in Britain and the United States is the English pattern pack. The second most common is the Belgian-Genoese pattern, designed in France, but whose use spread to Spain, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans and much of North Africa and the Middle East.''Pattern Sheet 80'' at i-p-c-s.org. Retrieved 23 August 2020. In addition to those, there are other major in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Deck
French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. In a standard 52-card pack these are the ( knave or jack), the ( lady or queen), and the (king). In addition, in Tarot packs, there is a (cavalier) ranking between the queen and the knave. Aside from these aspects, decks can include a wide variety of regional and national patterns, which often have different deck sizes. In comparison to Spanish, Italian, German, and Swiss playing cards, French cards are the most widespread due to the geopolitical, commercial, and cultural influence of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Other reasons for their popularity were the simplicity of the suit insignia, which simplifies mass production, and the popularity of whist and contract bridge. The English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation (cards)
Games of patience, or (card) solitaires as they are usually called in North America, have their own 'language' of specialised terms such as "building down", "packing", "foundations", "talon" and "tableau". Once learnt they are helpful in describing, succinctly and accurately, how the games are played. Patience games are usually for a single player, although a small number have been designed for two and, in rare cases, three or even four players. They are games of skill or chance or a combination of the two. There are three classes of patience grouped by object. The most frequent object is to arrange the cards either in ascending sequence (e.g. from Ace to King) or descending sequence. Occasionally both forms of sequence are aimed at in the same game. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clock Position
A clock position, or clock bearing, is the direction of an object observed from a vehicle, typically a vessel or an aircraft, relative to the orientation of the vehicle to the observer. The vehicle must be considered to have a front, a back, a left side and a right side. These quarters may have specialized names, such as bow and stern for a vessel, or nose and tail for an aircraft. The observer then measures or observes the angle made by the intersection of the line of sight to the longitudinal axis, the dimension of length, of the vessel, using the clock analogy. In this analogy, the observer imagines the vessel located on a horizontal clock face with the front at 12:00. Neglecting the length of the vessel, and presuming that he is at the bow, he observes the time number lying on the line of sight. For example, ''12 o'clock'' means ''directly ahead'', ''3 o'clock'' means ''directly to the right'', ''6 o'clock'' means ''directly behind'', and ''9 o'clock'' means ''directly to ... [...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] |
Big Ben (solitaire)
Big Ben is a patience or card solitaire which uses two decks of playing cards mixed together."Clock" (p.427-8) in ''The Penguin Book of Card Games'' by David Parlett, Treasure Press, 1987. It is named after Big Ben, the nickname of the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster in London. Names Big Ben is also known in the literature as The Clock, Clock, L'Horloge, Grandfather's Clock Patience, Grandfather's Clock and Father Time. It should not be confused with the one pack games of Clock, the shuttling game, The Clock as a variant of Travellers or Clock as a relative of Block Eleven. Rules Before the start of the game, the following cards are separated from the decks: , , , , , , , , , , , . These cards are used to form a circle arranged like numbers on a clock face with the on the "9 o' clock" position, the at the "12 o' clock" position, and the at the "8 o' clock." This will be the foundations, or the "inner circle" (otherwise known as the "clock"). Twelve piles of thr ... [...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] |
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