Idiot's Delight may refer to:
Art and entertainment
*
''Idiot's Delight'' (play), a 1936 play by Robert E. Sherwood
*
''Idiot's Delight'' (film), a 1939 adaptation of the play, starring Clark Gable and Norma Shearer
* ''Idiot's Delight'', a freeform radio program hosted by
Vin Scelsa
Patience or Card Solitaire
* Idiot's Delight, a pejorative term for any
patience or card solitaire
* Idiot's Delight is also an alternative name for the following patiences or card solitaires:
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Aces Up
Aces Up is a quick and simple, one-pack, patience or solitaire card game.
One advantage of Aces Up is its minimal use of space: it requires only four piles of cards, and a place to discard cards to. Winning chances with good play are about 1 i ...
, a game which is playable in a minimal space
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King Albert (solitaire)
King Albert is a patience or card solitaire using a deck of 52 playing cards of the open packer type. It is a conventional building game,"King Albert" (p.46) in ''The Little Book of Solitaire'', Running Press, 2002. and is said to be named after A ...
, believed to be named after King Albert of Belgium
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Perpetual Motion (solitaire)
Perpetual Motion is a Patience game which has the objective of discarding playing cards from the tableau. The name relates to the time-consuming process of the game. It is also called Idiot's Delight or Narcotic.
The name Perpetual Motion is al ...
, which has the object of discarding playing cards from the tableau
See also
* ''
Idiots Deluxe'', a 1945 short film starring the Three Stooges
*
Delight (disambiguation)
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