Simple Addition or Totals is a family of patience or card solitaire games that share certain aims and procedures.[1][2]
Composition
editMoyse counts the games of Elevens, Fifteens, Tens and Thirteens as part of the Simple Addition family.[1] Parlett adds Baroness, Block Eleven and Block Ten, Decade, Haden, Nines, Seven Up or Seventh Wonder, Pyramid or Pile of Twenty-Eight, Fourteens and Eighteens or Ferris Wheel, Grand Round or Wheel.[2]
Simple Addition sometimes also refers specifically to the game of Thirteens.[3]
References
editBibliography
edit- Dick, Harris B. (1898). Dick's games of patience; or, Solitaire with cards. 2nd Series. 113 pp. 70 games. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald.
- Moyse, Alphonse Jr. (1950). 150 Ways to Play Solitaire. USPCC. 128 pp.
- Parlett, David (1979). The Penguin Book of Patience, London: Penguin. ISBN 0-7139-1193-X