User:Bermicourt/Card games/Patience glossary
The following is a glossary of terms used in patiences or solitaire card games as opposed to multi-player card games. Where terms in this glossary are game-specific, i.e. relate to a specific patience or solitare game, this should be stated. For card game terms in general, see the Glossary of card game terms.
A
[edit]- available card
- A card in a tableau which is in a position from where it can legally be played to a foundation or elsewhere, or where another card can be packed on it.[1]
B
[edit]- bed
- In Flower Garden one of the six rows of six cards that form part of the tableau.[1]
- blocked card
- A card in the tableau situated so that it cannot be moved to a foundation until another card blocking it is moved first, while at the same time the card blocking it cannot itself be moved to a
foundation until the original blocked card is moved; the situation must be resolved by play within the tableau.[1]
- blocked column or row
- A column or row containing a blocked card.[1]
- bouquet
- In Flower Garden, a crescent of 16 cards that form part of the tableau.[1]
- build
- To transfer cards to foundations.[1]
C
[edit]- court card
- The King, Queen or Jack of each suit.[1]
Footnotes
[edit]References
[edit]Literature
[edit]- Arnold, Peter (2011). Card Games for One. London: Chambers. ISBN 978-0550-10201-0.
- Crawley, Captain Rawdon, pseud. of George Frederick Pardon (1866). Beeton's Handy Book of Games. Beeton, London.
- Dyche, Thomas (1740). A New General English Dictionary, 3rd edn. completed by William Pardon. London: Ware.
- Forbes-Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslie and Ernest Bergholt (1902). The Principles and Practice of Whist. H.T. Coates.
- Foster, Robert Frederick (1897). Foster’s Complete Hoyle. 3rd edn. Frederick.A. Stokes, New York and London.
- Golick, Margie (1998). Card Games for Smart Kids. New York: Sterling. ISBN 978-0-8069-4887-4.
- Heinsius, Dr. Theodor (1828). Vollständiges Wörterbuch, A - F, Volume 1. Vienna: Christian Friedrich Schade.
- Kansil, Joli Quentin (2001), ed. Official Rules of Card Games, 90th edn. Cincinnati: Bicycle. ISBN 978-1-889752-06-8
- Moss, William A. (1995). 10-Minute Card Games, New York: Sterling. ISBN 978-0-8069-3847-9
- Parlett, David (2008). The Penguin Book of Card Games. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-141-03787-5.
- Phillips, Hubert (1957), ed. Culbertson's Card Games Complete. Watford: Arco.
- Walker, G. W., ed. (1838). The Philidorian. Sherwood, London.
- Weber, Ferdinand Adolf (1840). Kritisch- erklärendes Handwörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache. 3rd revised and expanded edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz jun.
