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Card Games for One

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Author: Peter Arnold
Paperback
Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc (May 1, 2003)
ISBN: 9780600607274
ASIN: B001G4JH80

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From historical games that kept the likes of Napoleon and Tolstoy amused to today’s modern interpretations, this title features over 50 of the world’s most challenging patience and solitaire games.This super collection covers all levels, from easy Pairs Patience to the more complex Victoria Reel. The instructions explain all the rules, tactics, and terminology, while the color card layouts illustrate the different hands. Take out a single pack and try your luck on Accordion, Beleaguered Castle, Quadrille, and dozens of others. Or double your fun with two-packers. More than 70 of the world’s most famous and fascinating games of patience and solitaire will keep solo card players engrossed and happy for hours on end. From simple to challenging, this super collection covers all levels, from easy Pairs Patience to the more complex Victoria Reel. The instructions explain all the rules, tactics, and terminology, while the color card layouts illustrate the different hands in an easy-to-understand way. Take out a single pack and try your luck on Accordion, Beleaguered Castle, Easy Go, Eight Off, Quadrille, Monte Carlo and dozens of others, including Flower Garden, which doesn’t depend entirely on the fortuitous order of the cards. Or double your fun with two-packers, like Alhambra, Big Bertha, Heads and Tails, and Kings’ Way. There are so many possibilities, you’ll be able to keep on playing for days without repeating a game!

Table of Contents

Introduction
Single-pack Games
Accordion
Agnes
Baker’s dozen
Beleaguered castle
Belvedere
Bisley
Block eleven
Calculation
Captive queens
The carpet
Clock
Cribbage patience
Crossword
Demon
Eagle wings
Easy go
Eight off
Florentine
Flower garden
Fortune
Golf
Grandfather’s clock
King Albert
Klondike
La belle Lucie
Labyrinth
Little spider
Martha
Maze
Monte Carlo
Puss in the corner
Pyramid
Raglan
Scorpion
Simple Simon
Sir Tommy
Six by six
Stone-wall
Three blind mice
Tower of Hanoy
Vacancies
Westcliff
Double-pack Games
Above and below
Alhambra
Alternation
Babette
Big Bertha
British square
Capricious

Colorado
Congress
Corner stones
Cromwell
Diamond
Diavolo
Dieppe
Diplomat
Display
Dog
Eight by eight
The Emperor
Fandango
Four square
Fourteens
Half moon
Heads and tails
Heap
Indian carpet
Kings’ way
Lady Palk
Le cadran
Le chateau
Limited
Matrimony
Miss Milligan
Mount Olympus
Mrs Mop
Napoleon’s square
Paganini
Parallels
Parisian
Pendant
Persian
Plait
Reversi
Robin Post
Royal cotillion
Royal parade
Royal rendezvous
Saint George
Saint Helena
Salic Law
Shah
Sly fox
Spider
Sultan
Switchback
Terrace
Windmill
Glossary
Index


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