Simple Addition Explained

Simple Addition or Totals is a family of patience or card solitaire games that share certain aims and procedures.^{[1] [2]}

Composition

Moyse counts the games of Elevens, Fifteens, Tens and Thirteens as part of the Simple Addition family.^[1] Parlett adds Baroness, Block Eleven and Block Ten, Decade, Haden, Nines, Seven Up or Seventh Wonder, Pyramid or Pile of Twenty-Eight, Fourteens and Eighteens or Ferris Wheel, Grand Round or Wheel.^[2]

Simple Addition sometimes also refers specifically to the game of Thirteens.^[3]

Bibliography

• Dick, Harris B. (1898). Dick's games of patience; or, Solitaire with cards. 2nd Series. 113 pp. 70 games. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald.
• Moyse, Alphonse Jr. (1950). 150 Ways to Play Solitaire. USPCC. 128 pp.
• Parlett, David (1979). The Penguin Book of Patience, London: Penguin.

Notes and References

1. Moyse (1950), p. 5.
2. Parlett (1979), pp. 177–179.
3. Dick (1898), p. 19.