Games of Patience for One or More Players (Third Series) by Mary Whitmore Jones – 1892

  • Name Book: Games of Patience for One or More Players (Third Series)
  • Author: Mary Whitmore Jones
  • Year: 1892
  • Publisher: L Upcott Gill
  • Location: London, United Kingdom

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;

  • Octave
  • Cover
  • Brigade
  • Following
  • Problem
  • Colours
  • Missing- Link
  • Demon
  • The Queen and Her Lad
  • Block Ten
  • Scotch
  • The Burleigh
  • Vanbrugh
  • Above and Below
  • American Toad
  • Halma
  • Display
  • Grand Round
  • Wheel-of-Fortune
  • Matrimonial
  • Triangle
  • Lady Betty
  • Primrose
  • Double Pyramid
  • Gemini
  • Chequers
  • Doublets
  • Alternate
  • The Vaning-Moon
  • Ninety-One
  • Court Puzzle
  • Reverse Puzzle
  • Ten-to-Five Puzzle

The game Demon is mentioned with the rules and layout we today know as Canfield Solitaire, without the gambling scoring.

Other important books about Patience and Solitaire written by Miss Whitmore Jones are:

  • 1905 – New Games of Patience, 1st edition.
  • 1911 – New Games of Patience, 2nd edition.