All articles from magazines about Gambling used for the research on Solitaire from a Gambler’s perspective.
Pascal Solitaire – Alan D. Floeter and Vallerie A. Floeter, Micro – NO. 62 (Micro Ink,US) 1983 Las Vegas Solitaire became quite popular among computer programmers throughout the 1970s. Many computer publications wrote about Las Vegas Solitaire, most of which times in lectures to teach how to code the game with the Vegas scoring always … Read more
Videogames aren’t in the cards, Dick Reynolds, 1982Dick Reynolds on Solitaire in an article in the Palladium-Item published in Richmond, Indiana. Dick Reynolds played 100 games of Klondike Solitaire and is sharing the results with his readers. He plays Klondike and claims it’s played in Las Vegas. “Klondike” Solitaire relieves video game frustrations… The card … Read more
The Creative Cheater’s Guide to Solitaire (Wherein Virtue is Not Its Own Reward) by Bernie De Koven, Games Magazine #14, Playboy Enterprises, November 1979 Complete game description of Las Vegas Solitaire with illustrations. Also, Bernie points out the difference between Klondike and Las Vegas Solitaire. “Now my self says to me, Look here buddy. This … Read more
“My Favourite Patiences,” an article published in the Strand Magazine in 1909 by W. Dalton, describes a game he names “The Step Ladder Patience.” The game described is the game we know today as Klondike Solitaire, but without any mention of the gambling score and also using the three-card draw rule. About “the Step Ladder” … 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
Solitary Games, The Spectator, Volume 48, Part 1, London, United Kingdom In this article, the writer mainly responds to the article from W. Pole a year earlier “Games at Cards for One Player, published in the November edition of the Macmillan’s Magazine“ The following interesting quote from this article shows that there were already many … Read more
Games at Cards for One Player by W. Pole, Macmillan’s Magazine, Volume 31 1874 W. Pole was, at the time he lived, a well-renowned writer of books about card games. He was most famous for his book “The Philosophy of Whist” In the November edition of the Macmillan’s Magazine he wrote a very interesting article … Read more