Solitaire : Patience Card Game for Android

11 things about Solitaire : Patience Card Game

1. Patience games typically involve dealing cards from a shuffled deck into a prescribed arrangement on a tabletop, from which the player attempts to reorder the deck by suit and rank through a series of moves transferring cards from one place to another under prescribed restrictions.

2. In the most familiar, general form of Patience, the object of the game is to build up four blocks of cards going from ace to king in each suit, taking cards from the layout if they appear on the table.

3. In 'open' games all the cards are visible throughout the game and the player has to use powers of analysis to solve the patience.

4. In most games of patience the overall aim is to arrange all thirteen cards of each suit in order in a 'family' running from Ace to King.

5. However, in many games the cards must be assembled in reverse order on another part of the layout called the 'tableau'.

6. In 'closed' games, cards are drawn from a face-down stock and the player has to use judgement because the sequence of cards is unknown until they appear.

7. Finally patience games may be classified by the degree to which the cards are revealed.

8. Some games allow for the reshuffling of the deck(s), and/or the placement of cards into new or "empty" locations.

9. The purpose of Patience generally involves manipulating a layout of cards with a goal of sorting them in some manner.

10. It is possible to play the same games competitively (often a head to head race) and cooperatively.

11. This is Classic Solitaire (or Klondike Solitaire - Patience Solitaire) game that you know.