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solitaire
Sign in to saveAlso known as patience card game, solitaire card game, patience
thumb|300px|The layout of the game known as Crazy Quilt (solitaire)|Crazy Quilt Solitaire, patience, or card solitaire refer to a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are varieties for two or more players.
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Genre names
- Individual game names
- History
- Overview
- Card size and format
- Types
- Closed games
- Open games
- Half-open games
- Competitive solitaires
- Computer games
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|300px|The layout of the game known as Crazy Quilt (solitaire)|Crazy Quilt Solitaire, patience, or card solitaire refer to a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are varieties for two or more players.
== Genre names == 'Patience' is the earliest recorded name for this type of card game in both British and American sources. The word derives from the games being seen as an exercise in patience.
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