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Quadrille is a dance.
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A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These games include peg solitaire and mahjong solitaire. Most solitaire games function as a puzzle which, due to a different starting position, may be solved in a different fashion each time.
There are a number of common features in many Patience games or solitaire games as they are called in the US, such as "building down" and the "foundations" and "tableau", used to simplify the descriptions of new games.
Klondike or Canfield (traditional) is a patience game. In the U.S. and Canada, Klondike is the best-known solitaire card game, to the point that the term "solitaire", in the absence of additional qualifiers, typically refers to Klondike. Equally in the UK, it is often just known as "patience". Elsewhere the game is known as American Patience.
The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies. The quadrille consists of a chain of four to six contredanses, courtly versions of English country dances that had been taken up at the court of Louis XIV and spread across Europe. Latterly the quadrille was frequently danced to a medley of opera melodies.
In computer science, patience sorting is a sorting algorithm inspired by, and named after, the card game patience. A variant of the algorithm efficiently computes the length of a longest increasing subsequence in a given array.
Clock Patience, also known as Clock Solitaire is a solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
Canfield or Demon is a solitaire (patience) card game with a very low probability of winning. It is originally a casino game, and in the United States is named after casino owner Richard A. Canfield, who popularised it in the 1890s.
Nestor is a Patience game where the object is the removal of pairs.
Quadrille, also called Captive Queens, La Française or Partner is a card game of the Patience or Solitaire type using a pack of 52 playing cards. The name Quadrille is derived from the layout of the four Queens around which the cards are built; an alternative name, Captive Queens, describes the way the Queens become "enclosed" as the foundations are built upon. Alluding to the name, Quadrille, Parlett describes it as "a pleasant little pictorial which may be said to represent the dance of the cardboard court."
Persian Patience is a patience card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. The unusual feature of this game is the fact that the two decks are decks used in Piquet and Bezique, i.e. those that have the Deuces (twos), Treys (Threes), Fours, Fives, and Sixes removed.
The Gryphon is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll in the popular book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. True to the conventional view of a griffin, he has the head, talons, and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.
Patience (Europe), or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games that can be played by a single player. Patience games can also be played in a head-to-head fashion with the winner selected by a scoring scheme.
Quadrille is a card game that was popular in the 18th century. A variant of the Spanish card game Ombre, it is played by four players in pairs, with a deck of 40 cards. By the end of the 19th century, the card game had fallen out of fashion.
"The Mock Turtle's Song", also known as the "Lobster Quadrille", is a song recited by the Mock Turtle in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, accompanied by a dance. It was taught to him at school by his teacher called Tortoise.
The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. This list does not encompass terms that are specific to one game.
German Solo, known locally just as Solo and historically as German Ombre, is a German 8-card plain-trick game for 4 individual players using a 32-card, German- or French-suited Skat pack. It is essentially a simplification of Quadrille, itself a 4-player adaptation of Ombre. As in Quadrille, players bid for the privilege of declaring trumps and deciding whether to play alone or with a partner. Along with Ombre, Tarock and Schafkopf, German Solo influenced the development of Skat.
Lobster Quadrille is the twenty-sixth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 21 March 1964. The episode was directed by Kim Mills and written by Richard Lucas.
Eight Cards is a simple, German patience game that is played with a French pack of 52 cards.