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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 ...