Good Thirteen
Good Thirteen (German: Die gute Dreizehn) is a simple, German patience game, which is played using a French Rommé pack of 52 cards.
A patience game | |
Origin | Germany |
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Type | Non-builder |
Family | Adding and pairing |
Deck | Single 52-card French pack |
Related games | |
Baroness, Eight Cards | |
See also Glossary of patience terms |
Playing
Like most patiences, Good Thirteen is a card game for one person. The playing cards, a single Rommé pack of 52 cards, are shuffled and placed face down as a stock on the table. The card values of the pip cards correspond to their face value; in addition, the Ace scores one, the Jack eleven, the Queen twelve and the King thirteen. The top ten cards are picked up and placed in a row on the table, face up:[1]
- Example: In the following layout the single King and the pairs 8+5, 10+3 and Jack (11)+2 can be removed.
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Pairs of cards adding up to 13 points, regardless of their suit are removed and placed to one side. In addition individual Kings, which are the only cards with a value of 13, may be laid off. The resulting gaps are filled with new cards from the stock.[1]
The game ends when the stock is exhausted. If all the cards have been laid off, the patience has been solved, if not, the player has lost.[1]
The game is similar to another German patience, Eight Cards (Acht Karten), in which eight cards are laid out and pairs and individual cards totalling 11 points are removed,[2] and also to the English patience of Baroness in which just five cards are laid out and, again, cards totalling 13 points are removed.
Literature
- "Die gute Dreizehn." In: Irmgard Wolter-Rosendorf: Patiencen in Wort und Bild (= Falken-Bücherei. Vol. 63). Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen/Ts. 1994, ISBN 3-8068-2003-1, p. 10–11.
References
- „Die gute Dreizehn.“ In: Irmgard Wolter-Rosendorf: Patiencen in Wort und Bild. Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen/Ts. 1994, ISBN 3-8068-2003-1, pp. 10–11.
- „Acht Karten.“ In: Vojtěch Omasta: Patience. Neue und alte Spiele. Slovart-Verlag, Bratislava 1985, OCLC 313534882.