David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board...

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'...

Parlett is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Blake Parlett (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey player David Parlett (born 1939)...

3 games. "Spider" (p.431-432) in The Penguin Book of Card Games by David Parlett, Treasure Press, 1987. ISBN 1-85051-221-3 "Spider" (p.311) in Bicycle...

was Westernized as Khanhoo by W.H. Wilkinson in 1891. Games scholar David Parlett combines these two theories, and proposes that the Mexican game of Conquian...

ISBN 978-0-19-827403-2. Link. Parlett, David (1999). The Oxford History of Board Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212998-8. Pritchard, David B. (1994)....

on a cruise ship and subsequently published its rules. According to David Parlett, the game is a reworking of an old 19th-century patience called crapette...

Russian game Verish' Ne Verish' ("Trust, don't trust")—described by David Parlett as "an ingenious cross between Cheat and Old Maid"—is also known as...

prisoners were also housed there after the War of 1812. Card game historian David Parlett believes that Euchre is derived from an eighteenth-century Alsatian...

Jack. Bartok, Mao, Taki, and Uno add further elements to the game. David Parlett describes Crazy Eights as "not so much a game as a basic pattern of...

standard rummy but less spontaneous than knock rummy. Card game historian David Parlett finds Scarne's theory to be "highly implausible", and considers the...

Newnes, 1961, Vol. 2, pp. 32–33. Parlett, David. "Blackjack: Related face-count games". Gourmet Games. David Parlett. Archived from the original on 26...

Assoc., Rev. 15APR2007 David Parlett, Teach Yourself Card Games, p. 191, McGraw-Hill (2003), ISBN 0-07-141974-8 David Parlett. "Parlett on Skat (5) History"...

plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game. David Parlett calls it a "classic game of relatively great antiquity... still one...

Patience. Foulsham, Slough. Parlett, David (1979). The Penguin Book of Patience. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-7139-1193-0. Parlett, David (1991). A History of...

colour, as the second-highest card. According to card game historian, David Parlett, the Joker was added to a 32‑card pack in the 1850s specifically for...

more players. The goal of the game is to avoid taking the last trick. David Parlett describes it as a "delightful Baltic gambling game". According to John...

mentioned by Rabelais, Cardano and numerous other 16th century sources, but David Parlett notes that the name referred to two different card games – one like...

more recently, Nerts, but the name Racing Demon continues to be used. David Parlett says that today it is also known as Pounce internationally. The game...

at Trionfi.com, by Martiano da Tortona, translated by Ross Caldwell David Parlett, Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, pg. 300 Oxford University Press (1996)...

Woodcock. Parlett, David (2007). "The origins of Euchre" in The Playing-Card, 35 (4), Apr–June 2007. ISSN 1752-671X pp. 255–261. Parlett, David (1991)....

Can or Colonel (the two-handed version) is a rummy-style card game. David Parlett describes it as an ancestor to all modern rummy games, and a kind of...

"Spite and Malice" (p. 455ff) in The Penguin Book of Card Games by David Parlett, Treasure Press, 1987. ISBN 1-85051-221-3 "Russian Bank" (p. 212) in...

Master of the Playing Cards John McLeod Anton Moser Samuel J. Murray David Parlett Ferdinand Piatnik Richard Valentine Pitchford Franco Pratesi Johann...

card games from all over the world. It has been described by writer David Parlett as the most important site of its kind on the Internet and the "only...

"Beleaguered Castle" (p.426) in The Penguin Book of Card Games by David Parlett, Treasure Press, 1987. ISBN 1-85051-221-3 "Beleaguered Castle" (p.9)...

You'll Ruin My "Thunderstorm"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-07-10. David Parlett, Botticelli and Beyond BBC Website for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Try...

but with a tableau of fans like that of La Belle Lucie. Invented by David Parlett, this game's objective is to compile the entire deck into one foundation...

taken from the main 4-player rule sets provided by John McLeod and David Parlett. Deal 4 players 13 cards each from a standard 52-card deck. Deal and...

Master of the Playing Cards John McLeod Anton Moser Samuel J. Murray David Parlett Ferdinand Piatnik Richard Valentine Pitchford Franco Pratesi Johann...