Solitaire card games

This article is about the game Accordion. To know more about the musical instrument, see the Accordion article. ...more on Wikipedia about "Accordion (solitaire)"

Aces Up (also known as Idiot's Delight, Once in a Lifetime or Ace of the Pile) is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. One advantage this game has is the minimal use of space; one can even play this game on an area as small as an encyclopedia volume cover. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aces Up"

:The common name Agnes is derived from the Greek word hagnē, the feminine word for hagnos, meaning chaste or sacred. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agnes"

Alhambra is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Its unusual feature is akin to that of Crazy Quilt: the cards in the reserve are bulit either on the foundations or on a waste pile. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alhambra (solitaire)"

Alternation is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Its tableau (or playing area) is similar to that of another solitaire game Stonewall. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alternation"

Auld Lang Syne is a solitaire card game which is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. It is a game which is somewhat akin to Sir Tommy, except in the dealing of the deck. ...more on Wikipedia about "Auld Lang Syne (solitaire)"

Babette is a solitaire card game that uses two decks of playing cards shuffled together. Its game play is similar to that of Labyrinth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Babette"

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Baker's Dozen is a solitaire card game using a deck of fifty-two playing cards. The game is so called because of the 13 columns in the game, the number in a baker's dozen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baker's Dozen (solitaire)"

Baroness is a solitaire card game that is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. Also known as Five Piles and Thirteens, it is a game that has an arrangement that is almost like that of Aces Up but with the game play of Pyramid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baroness (solitaire)"

Beleaguered Castle is a solitaire card game played with a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the games tauted as " Freecell without cells" because its game play is somehow akin to the popular solitaire computer game but without extra empty spaces to maneuver. This game is also called Laying Siege and Sham Battle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beleaguered Castle"

Betsy Ross is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is similar to another solitaire card game called Calculation except there is no tableau to play in and there is only one wastepile rather than four. ...more on Wikipedia about "Betsy Ross (solitaire)"

:The term Clock used in this article refers to Big Ben. It may also refer to Clock Solitaire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Ben (solitaire)"

Bisley is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the few one-deck games in which the player has options on which foundation a card can be placed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bisley (solitaire)"

Black Hole is a solitaire card game that is akin to Golf and Tri Peaks, but its tableau is somewhat like that of La Belle Lucie. Invented by David Parlett, this game's objective is to compress the entire deck into one foundation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Black Hole (solitaire)"

Blockade is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. Akin to solitaire games like Klondike and Gargantua, the object of the game is play the cards into the eight foundations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blockade (solitaire)"

Bristol is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It has an unusual feature of building regardless of suit on both the foundations and on the tableau; it is also one of the easiest to win. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bristol (solitaire)"

Calculation is a solitaire card game. It offers more scope for skill than many similar games; it is sometimes said that a skilled player can win Calculation three times out of five. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calculation (solitaire)"

Canfield is a solitaire card game with a very low probability to win. According to legend, it is originally a casino game, named after the casino owner who have said to have invented it. In England, it is known as Demon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canfield (solitaire)"

Capricieuse (or Capricious) is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Capricieuse"

Carpet is a solitaire game where the object is to discard all cards to the foundations where the aces are already dealt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carpet (solitaire)"

Clock patience, also known as clock solitaire is a solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clock patience"

Colorado is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is a game of card-building which belongs to the same family as Strategy, Sir Tommy, Calculation and Sly Fox. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colorado (solitaire)"

Crazy Quilt (also known as Indian Carpet and Japanese Rug) is a solitaire card game using two decks of 52 playing cards each. The game is so-called because the reserve resembles the weaves of a carpet or an arrangement of a quilt. The arrangement of the cards on the reserve is also the reason it is rarely seen on computer solitaire packages, most of which have their cards placed vertically. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crazy Quilt (solitaire)"

Crescent is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards mixed together. The game is so called because the cards are dealt properly, the resulting piles should form a large arc or a crescent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crescent (solitaire)"

Cribbage Solitaire (also known as Cribbage Patience) is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is based on the game of five-card cribbage, also known as the "old game," and is one of many solitaire card games based on those played by at least two players, best known of which is Poker Solitaire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cribbage Solitaire"

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