Clock Patience

Clock Patience, also called Clock Solitaire, is a luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.[1]

Clock
A Patience game
Initial layout of Clock Solitaire; Numbers/letters represent the piles.
Alternative namesTravellers
Named variantWatch
TypeNon-Builder
DeckSingle 52-card
See also Glossary of solitaire

Rules

One deck of cards (minus jokers) is used. The deck is shuffled and twelve piles of four cards each are laid out, face down, in a circle. The remaining four cards are placed, also face down, in a pile in the center of the circle.

The twelve positions around the circle represent the 12-hour clock and the pile in the middle represents the hands.

Play starts by turning over the top card of the central pile. When a card is revealed, it is placed face up under the pile at the corresponding hour (i.e., Ace = 1 o'clock, 2 = 2 o'clock, etc. The Jack is 11 o'clock and the Queen is 12 o'clock) and the top card of the pile of that hour is turned over. If a King is revealed, it is placed face up under the central pile.

Play continues in this fashion and the game is won if all the cards (including four Kings) are revealed.

Luck

Clock Patience is a purely mechanical process with no room for skill. The chances of winning are exactly 1 in 13.[2]

Variations

A variation of Clock Patience commonly called Watch is played like Clock Patience, but players can continue the play when the fourth king appears, by replacing it with a still face-down card. The game ends when that fourth king reappears.

German Clock (sometimes also called simply "The Clock") is a stock and waste type of solitaire originally called "Die Uhr", and described in a German solitaire book by Rudolf Heinrich from 1976.[3] This gives rules for very different game-play that depends on skill not to miss cards that can be played to the foundations.

See also

References
  1. Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith (2011). Hoyle's Rules of Games, 3rd revised and updated edition. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc. ISBN 0-451-20484-0
  2. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ClockSolitaire.html
  3. Heinrich, Rudolf (2011). Die schönsten Patiencen, Perlen-Reihe 641, 35th edition. Vienna: Perlen-Reihe Verlag. ISBN 3-85223-095-0
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