- Name Book: Dick’s Games of Patience
- Author: William B Dick
- Year: 1883
- Publisher: Dick and Fitzgerald
- Location: New York, USA
Dick’s Games of Patience (first series) by William B Dick, Dick and Fitzgerald, New York, USA
A very well-known and famous book of Patience is written in 1883 by William B Dick. Even now there are still many copies of the original print available. The first series was published in 1883 and contained 64 games of Patience and Solitaire:
- Auld lang Syne
- Tam o Shanter
- Napoleon’s Favorite
- The Four Seasons
- Simplicity
- The Gathering of the Clans
- Napoleon at St. Helena
- The Fifteen Puzzle
- The Calculation
- The Surprise Party
- The Four Kings
- The Clock
- The Garden
- The Contra Dance
- The Queens Audience
- The Betrothal
- The Phalanx
- The Idle Year
- The Reinforcements
- The Chameleon
- The Reserve
- La Belle Lucie
- The Shamrocks
- The House in the Wood
- The House on the Hill
- The Grand Duchess
- The Frog
- The Constitution
- The Beleaguered Castle
- The Citadel
- The Exiled Kings
- Penelope’s Web
- The Pyramid
- Napoleon’s Square
- The Court-Yard
- The Windmill
- The Quadrille
- Leoni’s Own
- The Chatelaine
- La Nivernaise
- The The Four Corners
- The Baker’s Dozen
- The Order of Precedence
- The Salic Law
- The Congress
- The Sultan of Turkey
- Thirteen Down
- The Fortress
- The Hemispheres
- The Elevens
- The Chester Game
- The Fourteens
- The Shah of Persia
- The Empress of India
- The Zodiac
- The Octagon
- The Blockade
- light and Shade
- The Besieged City
- St. Louis
- Rouge et Noir
- The Blondes and Brunettes
- The Royal Cotillion
- Nestor
27 games are played with one deck, 35 games are played with 2 decks, then there is one game played with 4-, and one with 9 decks of cards.
In the second series, published fifteen years later in 1898, 6 new variations of Patience and Solitaire games were added.