| Aliases: | Demon, Fascination, Thirteen |
| Blocked By: | None |
| Decks: | One |
| Hand Flip: | Three. infinite rotation |
Worldwide Play History:
| Times Played: | 9749 |
| Percent Won: | 10.68% |
| Average Moves: | 79.84 |
This game is based on to the original Canfield game per the description in Hoyle and many others.
It adds an element of the Stock, which becomes the focus of a successful Canfield player. In our Canfields, the first card played to the foundation becomes the base for all foundations (others play a variant where this the base is established by dealing one card to the foundation). So if you play a Queen first, the King goes on it, and then the Ace, Two, etc...
Although there are many stories regarding gambling parlers and solitaire games, Parlette claims that it is this game that the solitaire gambling was based on. In his story, it was a gambling hall in Saratoga New York. You paid $52 for the cards, and got $5 for every card played to the foundation. This ratio is the basis of most of the scoring in many of our games (with some added inducements to get you to play more difficultly to get extra points in certain games). Any way, if the story is really true the proprieter should have lost his shirt. But maybe after the drinks, the players were not so sharp!
