Great games of patience

Peter Arnold is an author and editor, most of whose 50 or so books concern sports and games. He has written histories and encyclopedias of boxing, cricket, football and the Olympic Games, and wrote the official FIFA guide to the 1994 Football World Cup in the USA. He has also worked as editor and main contributor of part-works on boxing and football, and has ghost-written instruction books for a West Indian Test fast bowler and a Canadian world snooker champion.

Introduction Card Games Accordion Aces Up As You Like It Baker's Dozen Baroness Beleaguered Castle Betsy Ross Bisley Bristol British Blockade British Square Calculation Captive Queens Castles in Spain Clock Crossword Demon Duchess Duchess de Luynes Easthaven Eight Off Flower Garden Fourteen Out Friday the Thirteenth Frog Gargantua Gate Grandfather's Clock Herringbone King Albert Klondike La Belle Lucie Lady of the Manor Lady Palk Le Cadran Legitimist Limited Little Spider Martha Matrimony Miss Milligan Monte Carlo Mount Olympus Odd and Even One Foundation Osmosis Pas Seul Perpetual Motion Pyramid Queen of Italy Queen's Audience Red and Black Rosamund's Bower Royal Rendezvous St Helena Salic Law Sir Tommy Spider Sultan Tournament Vacancies Vanishing Cross Weavers Wheel of Fortune Windmill Card Games Glossary Index Games by Alternative Names Games by Number of Packs