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CHAPTER FIVE
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SORTING
Quite often, they strip out twitch skills and give players a turn-based chance to read
and act. The player simply has to learn and apply the sorting scheme the game
demands.
Klondike Solitaire vs. Spider Solitaire : More Choices,
More Complexity
Patience isn’t just a virtue; it’s a game.
Mary Whitmore Jones wrote in Games of Patience for One or More Players, sec-
ond series in 1898, “ In days gone by, before the world lived at the railway speed it
is doing now, the game of Patience was looked upon with somewhat contemptu-
ous toleration, as a harmless but dull amusement for idle ladies, and was ironically
described as ‘ a roundabout method of sorting the cards ’ ; but it has gradually won
for itself a higher ...