The Penguin Book of Patience

by David Parlett

Features over 250 games of patience (500 including variants), ranging from the simplest games, pure gambles calling for the exercise of patience rather than skill, to the most elaborate, and requiring analytical judgement usually associated with chess.

Genres: Games

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 8, 1979

About the author

Parlett is a noted games scholar who has written extensively on the history of board and card games, as well as inventing several of his own.

Reviews

[Peter Hayes]

A superb book that has an honoured place on my bookshelf as the unchallenged authority in its field. A book to last a lifetime - inexhaustible.