Elevens is a
patience
(or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when face ...
or
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 inte ...
of the
Simple Addition Simple Addition or Totals is a family of patience or card solitaire games that share certain aims and procedures.Moyse (1950), p. 5.Parlett (1979), pp. 177–179.
Composition
Moyse counts the games of Elevens, Fifteens, Tens and Thirteens as pa ...
family that uses a
standard 52-card deck, with the goal of removing pairs of cards that add to eleven.
[Moyse (1950), p. 5.] Odds of winning are slightly better than 1 in 10.
Rules
Cards are placed in a 3x3 grid. Pairs of cards which add up to eleven (5 and 6; 4 and 7; 3 and 8; 2 and 9; Ace and 10) are covered up.
Face cards
In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British and US), and sometimes Royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. They are also known as picture cards, or until the e ...
(
J,
Q,
K) may be eliminated in a set of three cards consisting of one Jack, one Queen and one King regardless of
suit.
If all cards are covered up the game is won; if there are no more pairs of cards that add up to eleven, and there do not exist a Jack, a Queen, and a King, the game is lost.
Strategy
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.
Variations
Elevens is very similar to several other solitaire games in the adding and pairing genre, such as Fifteens, Straight Fifteens, Block 10, and Kings in the Corners, all of which use a 4x4 grid, but require players to remove pairs adding to a total other than 11 such as 15 or 10. The solitaire games Tens,
Good Thirteen
Good Thirteen (german: Die gute Dreizehn) is a simple, German patience game for one person, played using a French pack of 52 playing cards. It also goes under the name Thirteens.
Rules
A standard French deck of 52 playing cards is shuffled and ...
(also called Thirteens), Seventeens,
["Seventeens" (p.92) in David Galt, ''101 Great Card Games''. Publications International, 1999. ] and Eighteens apply a similar concept to other totals.
See also
*
List of solitaires
*
Glossary of solitaire
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 de ...
References
Bibliography
* Moyse, Alphonse Jr. (1950). ''150 Ways to Play Solitaire''. USPCC. 128 pp.
Single-deck patience card games
Closed non-builders
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