Bristol is a
Patience
or forbearance, is the ability to endure difficult or undesired long-term circumstances. Patience involves perseverance or tolerance in the face of delay, provocation, or stress without responding negatively, such as reacting with disrespect ...
game using a deck of 52
playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a f ...
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["Bristol" (p.30) in ''Little Giant Encyclopedia of Games for One or Two'', The Diagram Group, 1998. ] It is a fan-type game in the style of
La Belle Lucie
La Belle Lucie is a patience (game), patience or card solitaire where the object is to build the cards into the foundations. It is considered to be representative of the "fan" family of solitaire card games, and has a pleasing layout.
While ...
. It has an unusual feature of building regardless of suit on both the foundations and on the
tableau
Tableau (French for 'little table' literally, also used to mean 'picture'; : tableaux or, rarely, tableaus) may refer to:
Arts
* ''Tableau'', a series of four paintings by Piet Mondrian titled '' Tableau I'' through to ''Tableau IV''
* '' Tableau ...
; it is also one of the easiest to win. It was invented by Morehead & Mott-Smith around 1950.
[Parlett (1979), p. 252.]
Rules
Eight piles (or fans) of three cards each are dealt onto the tableau. Any king that is not on the bottom of its pile is placed underneath. Then three cards are placed under these piles. These form the bases for the three reserve piles.
Whenever an ace becomes available, it becomes a foundation, on which it can be built up regardless of suit up to a King. The same is done on the three other aces.
The top card of each pile on the tableau and the top card of each reserve pile is available to be built on the foundations and around the tableau. Like the foundations, the piles on the tableau are built down regardless of suit. Only one card can be moved at a time and when a pile becomes empty, it is never filled.
Cards in the stock are dealt onto the reserve three at a time, one for each pile. In effect, gaps on the reserve are filled during the deal; therefore, when a reserve pile becomes empty, it is not filled until the next batch of three cards is dealt.
The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations. Considering that all building is done regardless of suit, the chance of achieving this is very high.
Variations
Belvedere is played exactly the same as Bristol except for one rule: an Ace is separated from the deck at the beginning of the game and immediately set up as a foundation.
See also
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La Belle Lucie
La Belle Lucie is a patience (game), patience or card solitaire where the object is to build the cards into the foundations. It is considered to be representative of the "fan" family of solitaire card games, and has a pleasing layout.
While ...
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List of patiences and solitaires
This is a list of patiences, which are card games that are also referred to as solitaires or as card solitaire.
This list is not intended to be exhaustive, but only includes games that have met the usual Wikipedia requirements (e.g. notability ...
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Glossary of patience and solitaire terms
Games of patience, or (card) solitaires as they are usually called in North America, have their own 'language' of specialised terms such as "building down", "packing", "foundations", "talon" and "tableau". Once learnt they are helpful in de ...
References
Bibliography
* Arnold, Peter (2011). ''Card Games for One''. 2nd edn. London: Chambers.
* Parlett, David (1979). ''The Penguin Book of Patience''. London: Penguin.
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