Gambling House Solitaire is popular in Brooklyn – Correct Method of playing by a man who has frequently “bucked it” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday 28 September. I managed to find the second (unique) article where the game named after Canfield was described in detail as a Gambling Solitaire. “Of all 2 handed cards games … Read more
Two weeks after the original article was published in The Sun New York (Gambling with Solitaire – Chicago Daft Now over a game that seems easy but is not) a copy is published in the News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, USA. Although the title is different, the article itself is an exact copy.
Name Article: Gambling with Solitaire – Chicago Daft Now over a game that seems easy but is notAuthor: UnknownYear: Sunday 14 September 1902Published in: The Sun (Newspaper)Location: New York, USA Gambling with Solitaire – Chicago Daft Now over a game that seems easy but is not – The Sun New York – 1902 This article … Read more
Games of Patience, Illustrated by numerous diagrams by “Tarbart,” Published by Thos. de la Rue & Co LTD, London 1901 Thomas De La Rue’s second book about Solitaire. This time the book is published under his pseudonym Tarbart. A significant improvement is that the second book of Patience games by Thomas de la Rue is … Read more
Dick’s Games of Patience (Second Series) by William B Dick published by Dick and Fitzgerald, New York 1898 The second series of Dick’s Games of Patience was published in 1898, In this edition, 6 new variations of Patience and Solitaire games are added to the 64 games which were already published back in 1883 in … Read more
Foster’s complete Hoyle; an encyclopedia of games, including all the indoor games played at the present day by R.F. Foster, published by the F.A. Stokes company, London, 1897 R. F. (Robert Frederick) Foster (1853 – 1945) lived is one of the most authoritative writers on the rules of card-, dice, and board games. His book … Read more
Patience: A Series of Games with Cards compiled by Mrs. E.D. Cheney. “Let Patience have her perfect work” Boston USA In her book Patience A Series of Games with Cards (third edition, Ednah Dow Cheney is the first English writer who writes about a game called Triangle which is a 2 deck solitaire that can … Read more
Games of Patience for One or More Players (Third Series) written by Mrs. Mary Whitmore Jones London 1892 The Third Series of Mary Whitemore Jones’ books on solitaire contains another 33 new solitaire variants; The game Demon is mentioned with the rules and layout we today know as Canfield Solitaire, without the gambling scoring. Other … Read more
The Illustrated Book of Patience Games, by Professor Hoffmann 1892 London, United Kingdom In this book, Professor Hoffmann describes 63 games of Patience which he explains with the help of illustrations. He states he took all the games from earlier German literature and translated them literally into English. The official title clarifies this as well: … Read more
German Patience Games – The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Volume 73 – 1892 Interesting article in an English magazine where the unknown writer goes deep into the card game solitaire and in particular about how the various writers from that time translated games from German whereby the rules and names were … Read more