Persian Patience (or simply Persian) 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 faced ...
card game
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 ...
which is played with two decks of
playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a fi ...
s. The unusual feature of this game is the fact that the two decks are decks used in
Piquet
Piquet (; ) is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game. David Parlett calls it a "classic game of relatively great antiquity... still one of the most skill-rewarding card games for two" but ...
and
Bezique
Bezique () or Bésigue () is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players that came to Britain and is still played today. The game is derived from Piquet,''Transactions of the Philological Society'', Philological Socie ...
, i.e. those that have the Deuces (twos), Treys (Threes), Fours, Fives, and Sixes removed.
Rules
The tableau is set up into eight columns of eight cards. The object of the game is to free all eight Aces and build each of them up by suit. In this case, when an Ace is placed on a foundation, the next card to be placed on it is a seven.
Building on the tableau is down by alternating colour. Only one card can be moved at a time. When a space occurs, it is filled with any available card.
When the player has done all of the moves he could possibly make, the player can gather the cards on the tableau, shuffle them, and redeal them into eight piles. This can be done only twice during the game (three deals in all). However, when no moves are made after a deal (whether the original deal or one of the redeals), the deal does not count.
The game ends long after the cards are dealt the third time. The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations.
See also
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List of solitaire games
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Glossary of 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 des ...
Bibliography
* Parlett, David (1979). ''The Penguin Book of Patience'', Penguin, London.
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Double-deck patience card games
Open packers