Īmerican games authors Wood and Goddard state that 'Patience is any game played with playing cards in which the object is to arrange the cards. Secondly, any game of patience may be played competitively by two or more players. Firstly, a patience is a card game, whereas a solitaire is any one-player game, including those played with dominoes or peg and board games.

The word is French in origin, these games being 'regarded as an exercise in patience.' Īlthough the name solitaire became common in North America for this type of game during the 20th century, British games scholar David Parlett notes that there are good reasons for preferring the name 'patience'. 'Patience' is the earliest recorded name for this type of card game in both British and American sources. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are also 'excellent games of patience for two or more players'.

Patience (Europe), card solitaire or solitaire (US/Canada), is a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Genre of card games The layout of the game known as Crazy Quilt

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