#Canfield green felt windows#
Klondike's inclusion in Microsoft Windows in the 1990s contributed significantly to its current popularity. In the 1913 edition of the so-called Official Rules of Card Games, Seven-Card Klondike has become Klondike, with the modification that the pack is run through one card at a time instead of three, and the original Klondike is now being called Canfield. Hoyles calls it a simpler version of "Klondike", also described in the same book, but which turns out to be a gambling version of the game nowadays known as Canfield in the US and Demon elsewhere in the world. The earliest rules for the game known as Klondike today appear in the 1907 edition of Hoyle's Games under the name "Seven-Card Klondike". History Īccording to Tung (2015), the game became popular in the late 19th century, and may well have been named "Klondike" after the Canadian region where the Klondike Gold Rush happened in 1896–1899. Likewise the rumour prevails that this other game was devised by Richard Canfield even though Canfield himself called his game "Klondike". Today, however, Canfield is more usually the American name for the patience game called " Demon" in England, which is a different game altogether. Historically Klondike was also called Canfield in America, perhaps because it was a casino game at the Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs, New York, and this is the name by which it became known in England. Elsewhere the game is known as American Patience.
Equally in the UK, it is often just known as " Patience". and Canada, it is so well known that the term Solitaire, in the absence of qualifiers, typically refers to Klondike. The distinguishing feature of all variants is a triangular layout of the tableau, building in ascending sequence and packing in descending order. Partly because of that, it has spawned numerous variants including Batsford, Easthaven, King Albert, Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk and Whitehead, as well as the American variants of the games, Agnes and Westcliff. Klondike, also known as Canfield, is a card game for one player and the best known and most popular version of the patience or solitaire family, something which "defies explanation" as it has one of the lowest rates of success of any such game. When a card from the Discard Pile is played then the new top card can also be played.Canfield, Solitaire, Patience, Seven up, SevensĪgnes (Bernauer), Batsford, Easthaven, King Albert, Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk, American Westcliff Only the top card of the Discard Pile may be played elsewhere. When no cards remain in the Stock, the cards from the Discard Pile can be flipped over and gone through an unlimited number of times. StockĬards from the Stock are flipped three at a time to a Discard Pile. The topmost card in any Column is available for play to either another Column or a Foundation.Įmpty Columns may be filled with any card or group of cards that may be validly moved. For example, a red Queen, black Jack, and red 10 can all be moved to a black King because the connecting cards (the K and Q) follow the rule that cards are built Down and in Alternating Color. For example, a red 6 may be placed on a black 7.Īll face up cards in any Column are available for movement to another Column as long as the above build rule is followed. ColumnsĬolumns are built DOWN in ALTERNATING COLOR. Each Foundation in this example would also start with a 3. For example, if a 3 of hearts was dealt to the first Foundation, then the 4 of hearts would be played onto the 3, then the 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A, and 2 of hearts. Foundationsįoundations are built UP and IN SUIT starting with the rank of the card dealt to the first Foundation and ending with the rank one less. Finally, 13 cards are dealt to the Reserve Pile. Next, each of the four Columns is dealt one card. Using one deck, a single card is dealt to the first Foundation. The starting Foundation rank changes from game to game. Move all cards to the four Foundation piles in the same suit.
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