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This is a list of patiences, which are card games that are also referred to as
solitaire Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These game ...
s 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 Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibi ...
). Additions should only be made if there is an existing entry on Wikipedia that they can be linked to. To avoid duplicate pages being created, alternative titles and the names of variants are listed separately (except titles that include little more than the name of the parent game). Games of the patience genre played by more than one player are marked with a plus (+) sign.


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Accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
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Aces and Kings Aces and Kings is a challenging and original solitaire game using two decks of playing cards, and was created by Thomas Warfield. The object of the game is to build 8 foundations down from King to Ace or up from Ace to King without regard to sui ...
* Aces Square *
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 ...
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Acme Acme is Ancient Greek (ακμή; English transliteration: ''akmē'') for "the peak", "zenith" or "prime". It may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Acme'' (album), an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Acme and Septimius, a fictional ...
* Addiction * Agnes * Alaska *
Algerian Algerian may refer to: * Something of, or related to Algeria * Algerian people This article is about the demographic features of the population of Algeria, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, econo ...
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Alhambra The Alhambra (, ; ar, الْحَمْرَاء, Al-Ḥamrāʾ, , ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the ...
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Amazons In Greek mythology, the Amazons (Ancient Greek: Ἀμαζόνες ''Amazónes'', singular Ἀμαζών ''Amazōn'', via Latin ''Amāzon, -ŏnis'') are portrayed in a number of ancient epic poems and legends, such as the Labours of Hercules, ...
* American Toad * Apophis * Appreciate * Acquaintance * Archway *
Auld Lang Syne "Auld Lang Syne" (: note "s" rather than "z") is a popular song, particularly in the English-speaking world. Traditionally, it is sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. By extension, it is also often ...
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Australian Patience Australian Patience is a patience or card solitaire using one deck of playing cards. This game is a challenging combination of Klondike and Scorpion, and is also closely related to Yukon. The object of the game is to move all of the cards to the ...


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* Babette * Backbone * Baker's Dozen *
Baker's Game Baker's Game is a patience or solitaire card game similar to FreeCell. It predates FreeCell, and differs from it only in the fact that sequences are built by suit, instead of by alternate color. This makes the game more difficult to complete su ...
* Baroness *
Batsford Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. There is a falconry centre close to the village and Batsford Arboretum is nearby, ...
* Beetle *
Beleaguered Castle Beleaguered Castle is a patience or solitaire card game played with a deck of 52 playing cards. It is sometimes described as " Freecell without cells" because its game play is somewhat akin to the popular solitaire computer game of that name but w ...
* Belvedere * Betsy Ross *
Big Ben Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England, and the name is frequently extended to refer also to the clock and the clock tower. The officia ...
* Big Forty *
Big Harp Die Pyramide is a patience game of medium difficulty that is played with 104 playing cards. It is also known as Big Harp. It has one more stack than Double Klondike, which makes the game easier. The name is German and means "The Pyramid". It is not ...
* Birthday * Bisley *
Black Hole A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravitation, gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other Electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. The theory of general relativity predicts t ...
* Block 10 * Blockade *
Bowling Solitaire ''A Gamut of Games'' is an innovative book of games written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969. It contains rules for a large number of paper and pencil game, paper and pencil, card game, card, and board games, board games. Many of the game ...
* Box Kite *
Braid A braid (also referred to as a plait) is a complex structure or pattern formed by interlacing two or more strands of flexible material such as textile yarns, wire, or hair. The simplest and most common version is a flat, solid, three-strande ...
* Brigade * Bristol * British Constitution *
British Square British Square is a Patience_(game), patience or solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. It is a fan-type game in the style of La Belle Lucie. It has an unusual feature of switchback building whereby each foundation is f ...
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Broken Intervals Calculation (also known as Broken Intervals, Hopscotch and Four Kings Solitaire) is a solitaire card game played with a standard pack of 52 cards. It is part of the Sir Tommy family of patience games. It has its origin in France, where it is k ...
* Busy Aces


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Calculation A calculation is a deliberate mathematical process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more outputs or ''results''. The term is used in a variety of senses, from the very definite arithmetical calculation of using an algorithm, to th ...
* Canfield *
Capricieuse Capricieuse (or Capricious) is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Rules The entire deck must be dealt into twelve piles of cards. Any arrangement will do, but for convenience, two rows of six piles each will b ...
* Carpet * Carthage * Casket *
Castles in Spain The castles in Spain were built mainly for the country's defense, particularly with respect to fortification. During the Middle Ages, northern Christian kingdoms had to secure their borders with their Muslim southern neighbours, thus forcing bo ...
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Chameleon Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. The members of this family are best known for their distinct range of colors, bein ...
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Chessboard A chessboard is a used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape and uses two colours of squares, one light and one dark, in a chequered pattern. During play, the bo ...
* Cicely * Citadel * Clock Patience * Colorado * Colours * Concentration * Congress * Contradance * Corner Card * Corner Patience * Corners * Corona * Constitution * Cotillion *
Crapette Russian Bank, Crapette or Tunj, historically also called Wrangle, is a card game for two players from the patience family. It is played with two decks of 52 standard playing cards. The U.S. Playing Card Company, who first published its rules, ca ...
+ * Courtyard * Crazy Quilt * Crescent * Cribbage Solitaire *
Cribbage Squares Cribbage Squares, occasionally Cribbage Square, is a patience or card solitaire based on Cribbage which can be played using a deck of playing cards. This game works the same way as Poker Squares, but with cribbage scoring. Seventeen cards are u ...
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Cruel Cruelty is the pleasure in inflicting suffering or inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept. Cruel ways of inflicting suffering may involve vi ...
* Curds and Whey * Czarina


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* Decade * Deuces * Devil's Grip *
Diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...
* Double Canfield * Double Klondike+ * Double Solitaire+ * Doublets * Downing Street * Dress Parade * Duchess


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* Eagle Wing * Easthaven * Eight Cards *
Eight Off Eight Off is a patience or solitaire card game, named after its employment of eight cells, played with one deck of playing cards. The object of the game is to move all the cards into the foundations. It served as a partial inspiration for and is ...
* Eighteens * Elevens * Emperor * Emperor of Germany * Escalator * Exit


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Faerie Queen ''The Faerie Queene'' is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books IIII were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IVVI. ''The Faerie Queene'' is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 sta ...
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Fifteens Fifteens are a type of tray bake from Ulster. The recipe's name derives from the fact that it is typically made with 15 digestive biscuits, 15 marshmallows and 15 glacé cherries, which are combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut. ...
* Five Piles * Florentine Patience * Flower Garden *
Fly Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwing ...
* Following *
Fortress A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...
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Fortune's Favor Fortune's Favor or Fortune's Favour is a patience or card solitaire which is played with a deck of 52 playing cards."Fortune's Favor" (p.34) in ''The Little Book of Solitaire'', Running Press, 2002. It is so-called probably because the chances ...
* Forty Thieves *
Four Corners The Four Corners is a region of the Southwestern United States consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, southeastern corner of Utah, northeastern corner of Arizona, and northwestern corner of New Mexico. The Four Corners area ...
* Four Seasons * Four Winds * Fourteen Out * Fourteens * FreeCell * Frog * Frustration


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* Gaps * Gargantua *
Gate A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse "gat" meaning road or path; But other terms include ''yett and port''. The concept originally referred to the gap or hole in the wall ...
* Gavotte * Gay Gordons * German Clock *
German Patience German Patience is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards shuffled together. It is an unusual game because building in the tableau or playing area is up, as opposed to building down in many others. Despite its name, ...
* Giant *
Giza Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah'' arz, الجيزة ' ) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9.2 ...
* Glencoe * Golf *
Good Measure Baker's Dozen is a patience 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 pai ...
* Good Thirteen * Grampus *
Granada Granada (,, DIN 31635, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the fo ...
* Grand Duchess * Grandfather's Clock * Grandfather's Patience *
Grandmother's Patience Colorado is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is a game of card building which belongs to the same family as games like Sir Tommy, Strategy, and Calculation. It is considered an easy game with 80% odds ...


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Harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
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Heads And Tails Heads and Tails is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. It is mostly based on luck. Rules First, a row of eight cards are dealt; this is the "Heads" row. Then 8 piles of 11 cards are dealt; this is reserve. Below them ...
* Herring-Bone *
Herz zu Herz Hope Deferred is a simple game of patience, played with a French-suited Piquet pack of 32 cards. The aim of the game is to get rid of all the Clubs from the pack. History The game is first recorded by Professor Hoffmann in 1892 as Hope.Hoffma ...
* Hide-and-Seek * Hit or Miss * House in the Woods * House on the Hill


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* Idiot's Delight *
Imaginary Thirteen Imaginary Thirteen is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards.
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Imperial Guards An imperial guard or palace guard is a special group of troops (or a member thereof) of an empire, typically closely associated directly with the Emperor or Empress. Usually these troops embody a more elite status than other imperial forces, in ...
* Indian * Indian Carpet *
Interregnum An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order. Archetypally, it was the period of time between the reign of one monarch and the next (coming from Latin '' ...
* Intrigue


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* Josephine * Jubilee


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* King Albert * King Tut * Kings in the Corners * King's Audience * Kingsdown Eights * Klondike *
Knockout A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, a ...


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La Belle Lucie La Belle Lucie is a patience or card solitaire where the object is to build the cards into the foundations. It is considered to be representative of the "fan" family of solitaire card games, and has a pleasing layout. While the game origin ...
* La Chatelaine *
La Croix d'Honneur La Croix d'Honneur (French for ''the cross of honor'') is the solitaire card game which is played using a deck of playing cards. It is a pairing game, and was first described in the French book ''Nouveau Recueil de Patiences'', which was printed i ...
* Labyrinth * Lady Betty *
Lady of the Manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seig ...
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Laggard Lady Intrigue is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is similar to another solitaire game called Salic Law (solitaire), Salic Law, but it also involves the queens and building in the foundations goes both ways. Ru ...
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Las Vegas 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.Pa ...
* Last Chance * Laying Siege * Leoni's Own *
Limited Limited may refer to: Arts and media *''Limited Inc'', a 1988 book by Jacques Derrida *Limited series (comics), a comic book series with predetermined length Businesses *Limited Brands, an American company - owners of Victoria's Secret, Bath & Bo ...
* Little Milligan *
Little Spider Little Spider is an old patience or solitaire card game of English origin using a deck of 52 playing cards."Little Spider" (p.233-234) in ''The Complete Book of Card Games'' by Peter Arnold, Hamlyn Publishing, 2010. Because of its unique form ...
* Little Windmill * Long Braid * Lovely Lucy * Louis *
Lucas Lucas or LUCAS may refer to: People * Lucas (surname) * Lucas (given name) Arts and entertainment * Luca Family Singers, also known as "lucas ligner en torsk" * ''Lucas'' (album) (2007), an album by Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities * ''L ...


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* Maria * Martha * Matrimony *
Maze A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lea ...
* Memory * Millie * Milligan Cell * Milligan Harp * Milligan Yukon *
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 ...
* Montana * Monte Carlo *
Moojub Moojub is a solitaire card game which is played using one deck of playing cards. It was invented by Geoffrey Mott-Smith and Albert H. Morehead.Geoffrey Mott-Smith & Albert Hodges Morehead, ''The Complete Book of Solitaire and Patience Games'' It ...
* Mount Olympus *
Mrs. Mop Mrs. Mop is a patience or solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Invented by Charles Jewell, it is a relative of the solitaire game Spider in which all of the cards are dealt face up at the beginning of the game. ...


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Narcotic The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ ''narkō'', "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates ...
* Napoleon at St Helena * Napoleon's Favorite * Napoleon's Square * Nerts+ *
Nestor Nestor may refer to: * Nestor (mythology), King of Pylos in Greek mythology Arts and entertainment * "Nestor" (''Ulysses'' episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' * Nestor Studios, first-ever motion picture studio in Hollywood, L ...
* Nine Across * Ninety-One *
Nivernaise Tournament is a patience or solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards shuffled together. It is a variant of the much older game of Napoleon's Flank or Nivernaise and was first known as Maréchal Saxe. Rules First, the cards are s ...
(La Nivernaise) * Number Ten * Numerica


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* Odd and Even *
Old Fashioned Old-fashioned may refer to: * Old fashioned (cocktail), a whiskey cocktail ** Old Fashioned glass, a type of drinking glass named after the cocktail * ''Old Fashioned'' (film), a 2015 film by Rik Swartzwelder * "Old-fashioned" (short story) a 19 ...
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Old Mole ''Old Mole'' was a radical New Left oriented underground newspaper published in Cambridge, Massachusetts from September 1968 to September 1970. ''Old Mole'' was continued by a second volume titled ''The Mole'', which published five issues from Nov ...
* Old Patience * One234 * Osmosis


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* Päckchen * Pairs * Parallels * Parisienne (La Parisienne, Parisian) * Parliament *
Pas de Deux In ballet, a pas de deux (French language, French, literally "step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet steps together. The pas de deux is characteristic of classical ballet and can be fo ...
* Patience * Patriarchs *
Penguin Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...
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Perpetual Motion Perpetual motion is the motion of bodies that continues forever in an unperturbed system. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work infinitely without an external energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, a ...
* Perseverance *
Persian Patience Persian Patience (or simply Persian) is a patience card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. The unusual feature of this game is the fact that the two decks are decks used in Piquet and Bezique, i.e. those that have the Deuces (twos ...
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Persian Rug A Persian carpet ( fa, فرش ایرانی, translit=farš-e irâni ) or Persian rug ( fa, قالی ایرانی, translit=qâli-ye irâni ),Savory, R., ''Carpets'',(Encyclopaedia Iranica); accessed January 30, 2007. also known as Iranian ...
* Pharaoh′s Grave *
Picture Gallery An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensio ...
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Picture Patience Patriarchs is a patience or card solitaire which is played with two packs of playing cards."Patriarchs" (p.96) in ''The Little Book of Solitaire'', Running Press, 2002. It is similar in reserve layout to Odd and Even but with different rules of ...
* Pigtail * Plait * Poker Squares * Portuguese Solitaire *
Precedence Precedence may refer to: * Message precedence of military communications traffic * Order of precedence, the ceremonial hierarchy within a nation or state * Order of operations, in mathematics and computer programming * Precedence Entertainment, a ...
(Order of Precedence) *
Propeller A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon ...
* Puss in the Corner * Putt Putt * Pyramid * Pyramide * Pyramid Golf


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* Quadrille * Queen of Italy * Queen's Audience


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* Racing Demon+ *
Raglan Raglan may refer to: People *FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), British Army officer, commander of British troops during the Crimean War *Raglan (surname) *Raglan Squire (1912–2004), British architect Places Australia *Count ...
* Rainbow Canfield * Rank and File * Red and Black * Roosevelt at San Juan *
Rosamund's Bower Rosamund's Bower, also called Rosamund, is a pictorial game of patience or card solitaire that uses a single pack of 52 playing cards.Parlett (1979), p. 212. Peter Arnold, author of the 2011 book ''Card Games for One'', connects it to Rosamund ...
* Rouge et Noir * Royal Cotillion * Royal Flush * Royal Marriage *
Royal Parade Royal Parade may refer to: * Royal Parade – street in Melbourne * Royal Parade (patience), an old English patience game {{Disambiguation ...
* Royal Rendezvous * Russian Bank+ * Russian


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Salic Law The Salic law ( or ; la, Lex salica), also called the was the ancient Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500 by the first Frankish King, Clovis. The written text is in Latin and contains some of the earliest known instances of Old Du ...
* Scorpion * Seahaven Towers * Seven Devils * Sham Battle *
Shamrocks Shamrocks is a solitaire game akin to La Belle Lucie. The object is the same as the latter: move the cards into the foundations. Rules The game is layout out as in La Belle Lucie: seventeen piles of three cards are placed on the table with one ca ...
* Simple Simon * Simplicity * Sir Tommy * Six By Six * Sixes and Sevens * Sixty Thieves * Sly Fox *
Solitaire Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These game ...
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Spaces Spaces may refer to: * Google Spaces (app), a cross-platform application for group messaging and sharing * Windows Live Spaces, the next generation of MSN Spaces * Spaces (software), a virtual desktop manager implemented in Mac OS X Leopard * Spac ...
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Spanish Patience Baker's Dozen is a patience or card solitaire using a single pack of fifty-two playing cards. The game is so called because of the 13 columns in the game, the number in a baker's dozen. History First published by Dick in 1883 as The Baker's ...
* Spider * Spiderette *
Spiderwort ''Tradescantia'' () is a genus of 85 species of herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the family Commelinaceae, native to the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina, including the West Indies. Members of the genus are known by many co ...
* Spit+ * Square * St. Helena *
Stalactites A stalactite (, ; from the Greek 'stalaktos' ('dripping') via ''stalassein'' ('to drip') is a mineral formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves, hot springs, or man-made structures such as bridges and mines. Any material that is soluble an ...
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Stonewall Stonewall or Stone wall may refer to: * Stone wall, a kind of masonry construction * Stonewalling, engaging in uncooperative or delaying tactics * Stonewall riots, a 1969 turning point for the modern LGBTQ rights movement in Greenwich Village, Ne ...
* Storehouse *
Strategy Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art ...
* Streets *
Streets and Alleys Beleaguered Castle is a patience or solitaire card game played with a deck of 52 playing cards. It is sometimes described as " Freecell without cells" because its game play is somewhat akin to the popular solitaire computer game of that name but ...
* Stronghold *
Sultan Sultan (; ar, سلطان ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it ...
* Super Flower Garden * Superior Canfield


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* Tableau * Take Fourteen * Tam O'Shanter * Tens * Terrace * The Clock * The Fan * The Plot * Thirteens * Thirteen Up *
Thirteen Down ''Thirteen Down'' is the 13th album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1980. The album, credited as "The Bert Jansch Conundrum", originally appeared with at least three different sleeves, in the UK, US and Australia. There were ...
* Three Blind Mice * Three Shuffles and a Draw * Thumb and Pouch * Tournament *
Tower of Hanoy Tower of Hanoy is a solitaire card game which only uses 9 playing cards. It is based on the actual Tower of Hanoi game, where the object is to transfer discs from one peg to another without disturbing their order. The origin of the spelling is unc ...
(Tower of Hanoi) *
Tower of Pisa The Leaning Tower of Pisa ( it, torre pendente di Pisa), or simply, the Tower of Pisa (''torre di Pisa'' ), is the '' campanile'', or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa Cathedral. It is known for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unst ...
* Travellers * Trefoil * Triangle * Tri Peaks * Tut's Tomb * Twenty


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Vanishing Cross Four Seasons is a patience or card solitaire which is played with a single deck of playing cards. It is also known as Corner Card and Vanishing Cross, due to the arrangement of the foundations and the tableau respectively. Another alternate name i ...
* Vertical *
Virginia Reel Virginia Reel can refer to any of the following: * Virginia Reel (solitaire), a solitaire card game *Virginia reel (dance), a folk dance *Virginia Reel roller coaster Virginia Reel was an older style of spinning roller coaster characterized by spi ...


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* Washington's Favorite * Wasp * Watch * Weavers * Westcliff * Whitehead * Wildflower * Will o' the Wisp * Windmill


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* Yukon


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* Zodiac


Software patience or solitaire games

This is a very select list of particularly notable and influential examples of software dedicated to solitaire games: * ''
Solitaire Royale ''Solitaire Royale'' is a collection of solitaire games published by Spectrum HoloByte in 1987 for the Apple IIGS, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Amiga. The eight games included are "3 Shuffles and a Draw", "Pyramid", "Golf", "Corners", "Reno", "Klon ...
'' (1987) * '' Microsoft Solitaire'' (1990), '' Microsoft FreeCell'' (1991), and '' Microsoft Spider Solitaire'' (1998) * '' Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 2'' (1990) * ''
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire ''Eric's Ultimate Solitaire'' (also known as Eric's Ultimate Solitaire X) is a commercial solitaire game developed by Delta Tao Software for the Macintosh. The game was later ported to Linux by Loki Software. Apple Computer bundled the game wi ...
'' (1993) * ''
PySol Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These game ...
'' (1998) * ''
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 ...
'' (2007)


See also

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List of card games 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 ...
* Glossary of patience and solitaire terms {{Dynamic list