What are the Five Great Games of patience?
The games are Aunty Allis, Uncle Remus, Seven & Six, Senior Wrangler and Kings. They have been passed down by Grandpa Michael Keeling who played them as a young man and inherited them from his family. One was his aunt Allis (often misspelt Alice). I remember watching him playing them at home and with his mother at Hurst when I was a child.
Jim persuaded Grandpa to write down the rules for posterity and then Grandpa played a hundred games and set the gold standard for performance. The rules and those hard-to-beat scores are now at p5g.racingdemon.net. They even work on smart phones but you need good eyesight and dexterous fingers. Feel free to pass on the URL to anybody. x George
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| Uncle Remus in Progress |
More recently (2024) I have been working with C#, ASP.NET and SignalR to produce The game of Racing Demon is also known as Nerts, Nertz, Pounce, Peanuts, Squeal, Scrooge or (in German) Rasender Teufel. It is a competitive game for two or more players or bots, using a pack of cards for each player. The players race to get rid of the cards from their "Demons" (also known as "Nerts piles" , "Pounce piles", etc. - depending on what you call the game) by building them from the ace up onto common foundations.
Well done George! A masterwork xxx
ReplyDeleteHave been playing on this since Christmas and loving it. Thanks Dad xxx
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