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 placed face down as a
stock
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on the table. The top ten cards are dealt face-up in a
row
Row or ROW may refer to:
Exercise
*Rowing, or a form of aquatic movement using oars
*Row (weight-lifting), a form of weight-lifting exercise
Math
*Row vector, a 1 × ''n'' matrix in linear algebra.
*Row (database), a single, implicitly structured ...
on the table as the starting layout.
Pairs of cards adding up to 13 points, regardless of their
suit are removed and placed to one side. The card values of the
pip card
Pip, PIP, Pips, PIPS, and ''similar'', may refer to:
Common meanings
* Pip, colloquial name for the star(s) worn on military uniform as part of rank badge, as in the British Army officer rank insignia or with many Commonwealth police agencies
* T ...
s correspond to their face value. In addition, the
Ace
An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the c ...
scores one, the
Jack
Jack may refer to:
Places
* Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community
* Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community
* Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA
People and fictional characters
* Jack (given name), a male given name, ...
eleven, the
Queen
Queen or QUEEN may refer to:
Monarchy
* Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom
** List of queens regnant
* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen dowager, the widow of a king
* Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother ...
twelve and the
King
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king.
*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
thirteen. Individual Kings, which are the only cards with a value of 13, may be removed on their own. The resulting
gaps
Gaps is a member of the Montana group of Patience games, where the goal is to arrange all the cards in suit from Deuce (a Two card) to King.
Other solitaire games in this family include Spaces, Addiction, Vacancies, Clown Solitaire, Paganini, ...
are filled with new cards from the stock.
* Example: ''In the following layout the single King and the pairs 8+5, 10+3 and Jack (11)+2 can be removed.''
The game ends when the stock is exhausted. If all the cards have been removed, the patience has been solved, if not, the player has lost.
Variations
Thirteens is similar to another German patience, ''
Eight Cards
Eight Cards (german: Acht Karten) is a simple, German patience game for one player, that is played with a French pack of 52 cards.
Rules
A single French pack of 52 cards is shuffled and placed in front of the player as a stock.
The top eight ...
'' (''Acht Karten''), in which eight cards are laid out and pairs and individual cards totalling 11 points are removed,.
It is also closely related to the more difficult to complete English patience game
Baroness
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...
(alternatively called Five Piles). This plays in the same way, by removing cards totalling 13 points, but has a starting layout of just five cards, and where five cards are dealt at a time from the stock.
See also
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Eight Cards
Eight Cards (german: Acht Karten) is a simple, German patience game for one player, that is played with a French pack of 52 cards.
Rules
A single French pack of 52 cards is shuffled and placed in front of the player as a stock.
The top eight ...
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Baroness
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...
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List of patiences and solitaires
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 ...
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Glossary of patience and solitaire terms
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 ...
Notes
References
[„Die gute Dreizehn.“ In: Irmgard Wolter-Rosendorf: ''Patiencen in Wort und Bild.'' Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen/Ts. 1994, , pp. 10–11.]
[„Acht Karten.“ In: Vojtěch Omasta: ''Patience. Neue und alte Spiele.'' Slovart-Verlag, Bratislava 1985, .]
Literature
* Morehead, A.H. and G. Mott-Smith (2001). ''The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience.'' Foulsham, Slough.
* Wolter-Rosendorf, Irmgard (1994). ''Patiencen in Wort und Bild'' (= ''Falken-Bücherei.'' Vol. 63). Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen/Ts. 1994, .
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