Any tabletop game that a player can play alone, generally with cards but occasionally with dominoes, is referred to as patience. The term “solitaire” is also applied to solitary games of skill and concentration played with a predetermined configuration of tiles, pegs or stones. Peg patience and Mahjong patience are two examples of these games. The game can be played with several but is often played by one person.
History
The history of Card Solitaire or Patience is obscure, however the game first appears in northern Europe and Scandinavia in the late 1700s.[1] The German book Das new Königliche L’Hombre-Spiel from 1788 has the term “patiencespiel.”In the early 1800s, there were other reports of books appearing in Sweden and Russia [2]. French literature makes further mentions of patience.[3] Patience: A Series of Thirty Card Games, written by Ednah Cheney, was the first card patience book to be published in the United States in 1870.[4]
The most well-known game of card solitaire is Klondike, which was formerly known as Microsoft Solitaire in a digital version that came with the Windows operating system starting in 1990.
Patience game categories
- Continuity or card The game of solitaire, commonly referred to as “solitaire with cards,” typically entails arranging cards in a layout and sorting them in accordance with predetermined criteria.[5] Klondike is the most popular patience card game. Spider, Yukon, and FreeCell are a few further well-liked variants.
- A set of mahjong tiles are used in mahjong patience, a single-player matching game, instead of playing cards. Instead of being played on a physical tabletop, it is increasingly frequently played on a computer.Concentration, also known as Memory, Pelmanism, or just Pairs, is a card game in which two cards are turned face up during each round while the remaining cards are all laid out face down on a surface. To reveal matching pairs of cards is the goal of the game.
- The object of the board game Peg Solitaire is to remove all of the pegs from the board by moving and capturing them. Given that it can be repeated after being solved, it functions more like a puzzle than a game.
- Concentration, also known as Memory, Pelmanism, or just Pairs, is a card game in which two cards are turned face up during each round while the remaining cards are all laid out face down on a surface. To reveal matching pairs of cards is the goal of the game.
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References
David Parlett is (1979). Penguin, London, The Penguin Book of Patience, p. ISBN 0-7139-1193-X
- Roya, Will, “History of Solitaire” (2021). Card Night: Traditional Games, Traditional Decks, and Their Background. ISBN 9780762473519. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, page 47.
- Albert Morehead (May 6, 2015). The Complete Book of Patience Games & Solitaire. ISBN 9781473395381 belongs to Read Books Ltd. Accessed 6 August 2020.
- “Soldier’s History.” Solitaired.
- In addition to Yan, Diaconis, Rusmevichientong, and Roy, B. V. (2005). Solitaire pits human against machine. In Neural Information Processing Systems: Advances (pp. 1553–1560).
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