![]() Solitaired - a popular online version of solitaire with leaderboards and over 100 variations of solitaire games.PySol - an open source, cross-platform suite of Solitaire games.Pretty Good Solitaire - a popular comprehensive Solitaire suite for Microsoft Windows.Professor Hoffman), Basil Dalton, Ernest Bergholt, and Mary Whitmore Jones. Other books about solitaire written towards the end of the 19th century were by H. Henshaw (1870), and later Dick's Games of Patience, published by Dick and Fitzgerald. Cheney, Amusements for Invalids by Annie B. Other collections quickly followed such as Patience by E. The first collection of solitaire card games in the English language is attributed to Lady Adelaide Cadogan through her Illustrated Games of Patience, published in about 1870 and reprinted several times. Many solitaire games were named after him, such as Napoleon at St. The story is thought to have arisen from a misinterpretation. Napoleon was said to have "played patience" during his exile, however from written accounts he played Vingt-Un, Piquet, and Whist but not Patience. Timing the game is a further indicator of the strength of the outcome. If a win at the first try times are good and “luck” smiles at you, thus the immediate future can be used for important decisions. If there are no winnings in the game for a number of tries it spells caution in what you do. This belief assumes that a person’s "luck" will vary from time to time and important matters should not be initiated or conducted when the cards are not favorable. There is an old tradition in the German or Scandinavian countries to use "patience" as a guide to what the near future has to offer, a kind of "luck" meter. Before this, there was no literary mentions in large game compendiums such as Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester (1674) and Abbé Bellecour's Academie des Jeux (1674). ![]() The earliest known recording of a game of patience occurred in 1783 in the German game anthology Das neue Königliche L'Hombre-Spiel. Patience was first mentioned in literature shortly after cartomantic layouts were developed circa 1765. It became popular in France in the early 19th Century reaching England and America in the latter half. The game is most likely German or Scandinavian in origin. Like the origin of playing cards, the origin of patience is uncertain. Many software solitaire collections can be downloaded from the internet at no charge. Basic forms of Klondike solitaire and FreeCell come with every current installation of Microsoft Windows. Many of these have been converted to electronic form and are available as computer games. There is a vast array of variations on the solitaire/patience theme, using either one or more decks of cards, with rules of varying complexity and skill levels. See List of solitaire card games for more. Klondike and some other solitaire games have been adapted into two-player competitive games. There are many different solitaire games, but the term "solitaire" is often used to refer specifically to the most well-known form, called " Klondike". Solitaire has its own terminology see solitaire terminology. Some games allow for the reshuffling of the deck(s), and/or the placement of cards into new or "empty" locations. These games typically involve dealing cards from a shuffled deck into a prescribed arrangement on a tabletop, from which the player attempts to reorder the deck by suit and rank through a series of moves transferring cards from one place to another under prescribed restrictions. These games include Peg solitaire and Shanghai solitaire. The term solitaire is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout of tiles, pegs or stones rather than cards. However it is possible to play the same games competitively (often a head to head race) and cooperatively. ![]() Solitaire, also called patience, often refers to single-player card games involving a layout of cards with a goal of sorting them in some manner. It is a staple of computer operating systems, here shown as KPatience on the KDE desktop environment. Klondike is the best-known form of solitaire to the point of being a synecdoche. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).
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