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Thirteens
Baroness is a patience or card solitaire that is played with a single deck of 52 playing cards. It is similar to other members of the Simple Addition family and is also distantly related to Aces Up.Aces Up and its Variations by Michael Keller, 12 Apr 2021. Name The original name was The Baroness Patience, although the most common name since is just Baroness. It has also been occasionally referred to "boringly and not very descriptively" as Five Piles or Thirteens after two of its ludemes. Arnold describes Baroness as "a most pleasant name... maintaining a tradition in which patience games were often named after ladies of the aristocracy."Arnold (2011), p.1 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 part of the Simple Addition family. Parlett adds Baroness, Block Eleven and Block Ten, Decade A decade (from , , ) is a period of 10 years. Decades may describe any 10-year period, such as those of a person's life, or refer to specific groupings of calendar years. Usage Any period of ten years is a "decade". For example, the statement ..., Haden, Nines, Seven Up or Seventh Wonder, Pyramid or Pile of Twenty-Eight, Fourteens and Eighteens or Ferris Wheel, Grand Round or Wheel. Simple Addition sometimes also refers specifically to the game of Thirteens.Dick (1898), p. 19. References Bibliography * Dick, Harris B. (1898). ''Dick's games of patience; or, Solitaire with cards.'' 2nd Series. 113 pp. 70 games. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Thirteen
Good Thirteen () is a simple, German patience game for one person, played using a French playing cards, 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 (cards), stock on the table. The top ten cards are dealt face-up in a row (patience term), row on the table as the starting layout. Pairs of cards adding up to 13 points, regardless of their suit (card game), suit are removed and placed to one side. The card values of the pip cards correspond to their face value. In addition, the Ace scores one, the Jack (playing card), Jack eleven, the Queen (playing card), Queen twelve and the King (playing card), King thirteen. Individual Kings, which are the only cards with a value of 13, may be removed on their own. The resulting gap (patience term), gaps are filled with new cards from the stock. * Example: ''In the following layout the single King and the pairs 8+5, 10+3 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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). 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. A * Accordion * Aces and Kings * Aces Square * Aces Up * Acme * Addiction * Agnes * Alaska * Algerian * Alhambra * Amazons * American Toad * Apophis * Appreciate * Acquaintance * Archway * Auld Lang Syne * Australian Patience B * Babette * Backbone * Baker's Dozen * Baker's Game * Baroness * Batsford * Beetle * Beleaguered Castle * Belvedere * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patience (game)
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 intended for play by a single player, but there are varieties for two or more players. Genre names 'Patience' is the earliest recorded name for this type of card game in both British and American sources. The word derives from the games being seen as an exercise in patience.Parlett (1991), pp. 157–161. Although the name solitaire became common in North America for this type of game during the 20th century, British games scholar David Parlett argues that there are good reasons for preferring the name 'patience'. Firstly, ''patience'' refers specifically to card games, whereas ''solitaire'' may also refer to games played with dominoes or peg and board games. Secondly, any game of patience may be played competitively by two or more players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discard Pile
The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary packs. It should not include terms solely related to casino or banking games. For glossaries that relate primarily to one game or family of similar games, see Game-specific glossaries. A ; ace # The card with one pip in a pack of cards. Usually the highest card of a suit, ranking immediately above the king. May also occupy the lowest rank. # Commonly refers to the Deuce or Two in German-suited packs which don't have real Aces. Often the highest card of a suit. ; acorns : One of the four suits in a German-suited pack of cards. Symbol: ; active # A card that is in play i.e. not sleeping. # See active player. ; active player # A player who receives cards i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parlett, David
David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. He is the president of the British Skat Association. Life David Sidney Parlett was born in London on 18 May 1939 to Sidney Thomas Parlett and Eleanor May Parlett, née Nunan. He is one of three brothers. During the Second World War, Parlett lived in Barry, Glamorgan. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth. He has a BA in Modern Languages. Parlett was a technical writer with PR companies and later a freelance writer for ''Games & Puzzles'' magazine. He is married to Barbara and they have a son and a daughter. Works His published works include many popular books on games such as ''Penguin Book of Card Games'', as well as the more academic volumes ''The Oxford Guide to Card Games'' and ''The Oxford History of Board Games'', both now out of print. Parlett has also inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mott-Smith, Geoffrey
The Mott-Smith Trophy, named for writer and cryptographer Geoffrey Mott-Smith, is awarded to the player with the best overall individual performance in the Spring Nationals, the spring event of the American Contract Bridge League The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission "to promote, grow and sustain the ... (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). History The Mott-Smith Trophy was donated in 1961 by friends of Geoffrey Mott-Smith and was made retroactive to include all the winners from 1958.''Official Encyclopedia of Bridge'' (1988), p. 288. Namesake Geoffrey Arthur Mott-Smith (1902–1960) was the second son of Harold Mead Mott-Smith (1872–1978) and Jennie Ormsby Yates (1874–1941) and a grandson of John Mott-Smith. He became co-chairman of the ACBL Laws Commission, editor of the ACBL ''Bridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morehead, Albert H
Albert Hodges Morehead, Jr. (August 7, 1909 – October 5, 1966) was a writer for ''The New York Times'', a bridge player, a lexicographer, and an author and editor of reference works. Early years Morehead was born in Flintstone, Taylor County, Georgia on August 7, 1909, to Albert Hodges Morehead I (1854–1922) and Bianca Noa (1874–1945). Albert senior was a choral conductor. Bianca's brother was Loveman Noa, the Naval hero. Albert's siblings were: Kerenhappuch Turner Morehead (1905–1907) who died as an infant; and James Turner Morehead (1906–1988). His parents lived in Lexington, Kentucky, but were spending their summer in Georgia at the time of his birth. The family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, after the death of Albert's father in 1922 in Baylor County, Texas. He attended the Baylor School and later Harvard University. In 1939, Albert Morehead married Loy Claudon (1910–1970) of Illinois, and the couple had two children: Philip David Morehead (b. 1942) and And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goren, Charles
Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American Contract bridge, bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s and widely known as "Mr. Bridge". Early years Goren was born in what is now Khotyn, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, to a Jewish family. His parents were Jacob and Rebecca Goron, a writer and a homemaker. His father emigrated in 1903 with the family possibly coming later. He earned a law degree at McGill University in Montreal in 1923. While he was attending McGill, a girlfriend (or "a young hostess") laughed at his ineptness at the game of bridge, thus motivating him to immerse himself in a study of existing bridge materials. After graduation, he practiced law for 13 years in Philadelphia. The growing fame of contract bridge player Ely Culbertson, however, prompted Goren to abandon his original career choice to pursue bridge competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 describing, succinctly and accurately, how the games are played. Patience games are usually for a single player, although a small number have been designed for two and, in rare cases, three or even four players. They are games of skill or chance or a combination of the two. There are three classes of patience grouped by object. The most frequent object is to arrange the cards either in ascending sequence (e.g. from Ace to King) or descending sequence. Occasionally both forms of sequence are aimed at in the same game. The card forming the starting point of the required sequence is known as the foundation card and the sequence or family is said to be 'built up' on such card. In some cases foundation cards are picked out and placed in posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
