Patience is to mental exercise as jogging is to physical, being a most effective way of toning up the brain and abolishing mental flab. Card expert David Parlett has been collecting comparing, arranging and inventing Patience games for over 20 years, and here describes his favourites with lucidity and wit.
But which game is the game for you? Do you even know how large the choice is? This book offers a varied selection of 150 or so of the choicest games from a seemingly unlimited treasury of human ingenuity. They include:
- Games for one pack, two packs and stripped packs
- Games of skill to test your intellect and games of chance that try your patience
- Games that seek to please by always "coming out" and games that do their best to get you down
- Games ranging in design from opulent Victorian extravaganzas to post-modern minimalist "abstracts"
