Card Games for One
David Parlett • 1994 • Teach Yourself Books
- Author
- David Parlett
- First published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Teach Yourself Books
- Subjects
- Patience (Card games) · Card games
- ISBN
- 9780340602867
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Published in 1994 as part of the long-standing Teach Yourself series, David Parlett’s Card Games for One serves as a definitive resource for solitaire card gaming. At the time of its release, interest in non-computerized card games remained steady despite the rise of early digital gaming, and Parlett, a recognized authority on the history and theory of games, aimed to move beyond the standard Klondike variant. His work was designed to introduce readers to a broader spectrum of logic-based, non-gambling challenges.
Parlett designed the book to be both an instructional manual and a scholarly overview, documenting the mechanics of various solo games with precision and clarity. The book is widely received by hobbyists and historians as a standard text for understanding the evolution of solitaire, valued for the author's ability to categorize complex rules into accessible prose while maintaining the integrity of the original game structures.
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