Simple Addition

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]

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

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. ISBN 0-7139-1193-X
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