Great Solitaire Games

Author: Sheila Anne Barry
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Sterling (March 28, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0806988916
ISBN-13: 978-0806988917

Solitaire games are the ideal pastime. All you need is a pack of cards and a clear space in front of you, and you can spend as much or as little time as you like playing some of the most intriguing games ever devised.

Here they are—more than 100 of the world’s best—with "instant play" illustrations for every game that will show you how each game works, and also notes on what to expect when you play it. Some of the card games are very simple, for quick entertainment. Others are complex and will challenge your powers of concentration and your card skills.

Try your hand at "Grandfather’s Clock", "Osmosis", "Intelligence" or "Forty Thieves", plus many other amusing ways to while the time away. They’re mesmerizing and compelling. You won’t be able to stop!

Contents
A Word About Great Games, 10
Before You Begin, 11
One-Pack Games
Accordion, 15
Aces Up, 16
Auld Lang Syne, 17
    Tam O'Shanter, 17
Baker's Dozen, 18
   Perseverance, 18
   Good Measure, 19
Baroness, 19
Beleaguered Castle, 20
   Streets and Alleys, 21
   Citadel, 21
Betrothal, 22
Betsy Ross, 23
Bisley, 24
Calculation, 25
Canfield, 26
   Selective Canfield, 28
   Rainbow, 29
   Storehouse, 29
   Superior Demon, 29
   Chameleon, 30
Clock, The, 30
Double or Quits, 32
Duchess, 33
Eagle Wing, 34
Fortress, 36
   Chessboard, 37
Fourteens, 37
Gaps, 38
Garden, The, 40
Golf, 41
Grandfather's Clock, 42
Hit or Miss, 44
King Albert, 45
Klondike, 46
   Klondike by Threes, 47
   Agnes, 48
   Whitehead, 48
   Thumb and Pouch, 49
La Belle Lucie, 49
   Super Flower Garden, 51
   Trefoil, 51
   Shamrocks, 51
Little Spider, 52
Monte Carlo, 53
Nestor, 55
Osmosis, 56
   Peek, 57
Poker Solitaire, 58
Pyramid, 60
Quadrille, 63

Queen's Audience, 64
Russian Solitaire, 65
   Yukon, 67
Scorpion, 68
Spiderette, 70
Vanishing Cross, 71
Two-Pack Games
British Square, 74
Busy Aces, 75
Capricieuse, 76
Congress, 77
Cotillion, 78
Crescent, 79
   Open Crescent, 80
Diplomat, 81
Fan, The, 82
Forty Thieves, 84
   Streets, 85
   Indian, 85
   Rank and File, 85
   Lucas, 86
   Maria, 86
   Number Ten, 86
Frog, 87
   Fanny, 87
Grand Duchess, 88
   Parisienne, 89
Harp, The, 89
House in the Wood, 90
   House on the Hill, 91
Intelligence, 92
Matrimony, 93
Miss Milligan, 95
Mount Olympus, 97
Napoleon's Square, 98
Odd and Even, 100
Panama Canal, 101
Queen of Italy, 102
   Falling Star, 104
   Blondes and Brunettes, 104
   General Patience, 104
Royal Cotillion, 105
   Gavotte, 106
Royal Rendezvous, 107
St. Helena, 108
   Louis, 110
   Box Kite, 110
Sly Fox, 111
   Colorado, 113
Spider, 114
Sultan of Turkey, The, 115
Tournament, 116
Weavers, 118
Windmill, 120
Informational Chart and Index, 122