The Biggest Book of Games for One Ever!: Over 500 Games of Luck, Skill and Patience for Players of a Solitary Disposition

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A pack of playing cards usually suggests friends gathered around a card table. But what can you do when you have a deck of cards, a wish to play, and nobody to play with? Author Robert Allen has the answer in this unusual book that presents rules and variations for 100 different fascinating and challenging solitaire card games—but there's still more! You'll also find approximately 400 coin games, matchstick puzzles, logic puzzles, crosswords, and memory games. The solitaire games include Roll-Call, Pyramid, ...

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A pack of playing cards usually suggests friends gathered around a card table. But what can you do when you have a deck of cards, a wish to play, and nobody to play with? Author Robert Allen has the answer in this unusual book that presents rules and variations for 100 different fascinating and challenging solitaire card games—but there's still more! You'll also find approximately 400 coin games, matchstick puzzles, logic puzzles, crosswords, and memory games. The solitaire games include Roll-Call, Pyramid, Canfield, Grandfather Clock, and Flower Garden, to name just a few. Some games—both solitaire and non-card games—take only a few minutes to play, while others can go on for much longer. Each game is described with detailed diagrams, easy-to-follow rules, and the game's object clearly defined. Here's a book to help readers make an hour or two of solitude pass rapidly and entertainingly!

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With The Biggest Book of Games for One Ever!, even solitary confinement could be a breeze. The authors of this astonishing book of games don't make that claim, but they do provides rules and variations for a dazzling number of solitaire amusements: 100 card games and 400 coin games, matchstick puzzles, logic puzzles, crosswords, chess problems, and memory games.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764132735
  • Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/28/2005
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 1.15 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Allen is author of several books in the field of popular psychology, including Mind Workout for Gifted Kids, also published by Barron’s. He is the CEO of the Mensa Foundation for Gifted Children.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 7
Solitaire Card Games 9
Notes 10
Other Games For One 105
Solitaire Board Games 106
Matchstick Games 112
Coin Games 122
Pentominoes 129
Tricks 130
Chess Problems 137
Notes 138
Memory Games 181
Puzzles 203
Number Puzzles 204
Visual Reasoning Puzzles 224
Lateral Thinking Puzzles 234
Logic Puzzles 244
Word Puzzles 254
Rebus Puzzles 274
Jumble Words 280
Quizzes 287
Trivia Quizzes 288
True or False? 308
Wordsearches 319
Crosswords 331
Answers 363
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