Original Patience Games by David Parlett
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Many of my Patience games appear on the internet uncredited, so I'm staking my claim to them here. I hope you enjoy playing them. Preferably with real cards, but if you prefer online, try Warfield's comprehensive Pretty Good Solitaire (where they appear by permission). See also my history of patience games, and Wikipedia for a pretty good summary of my analysis of patience games in The Penguin Book of Patience (1979).


Title description
Archway A Victorian classic updated for modern tastes (2 packs)
Black Hole Cosmic golf for one player (1 pack)
Buffalo Bill Best played in wide open spaces (2 packs)
Curds & Whey A novel member of the spider family (1 pack)
Gay Gordons Dance your way through this elimination game (1 pack)
Penguin One of my most popular games (1 pack)
Rittenhouse As played by Geoffrey T. Spaulding at Rittenhouse Manor (2 packs)
Sticko Fiendish adaptation of my two-player game Stucco (32-card pack)
Striptease A tantalising game that doesn't always reveal all (1 pack)

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