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28-463: Canfield may refer to: Card games [ edit ] Canfield (solitaire) , known in Britain as the patience game, Demon Klondike (solitaire) known in Britain as the patience game, Canfield Places [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Canfield, Arkansas Canfield, Colorado former name of Edison Park, Chicago , Illinois,

56-480: A World War II destroyer escort Canfield's , a producer and bottler of soda beverages, mainly in the Chicago area Canfield Speedway , Canfield, Ohio, an auto racing track Canfield Casino and Congress Park , Sarasota Springs, New York, a National Historic Landmark Canfield ocean , a geological theory Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

84-463: A card of the same rank as the first foundation card. Finally, one card is dealt to each of four piles which form a row under the foundations. This is the tableau and the cards remaining in the hand form the stock . Cards on the tableau are packed in descending order and alternating colour , turning the corner from Ace to King if need be; while the foundations are built up in suit sequence, wrapping from King to Ace if necessary. Cards from

112-465: A collection of regimental sketches, and in 1883 Regimental Legends. Both bore the name of 'John Strange Winter,' a character in one of the tales in the former volume. The publisher refused to bring out the books under a feminine pseudonym. The public assumed the author to be a cavalry officer. She retained the name for literary and business purposes through life. Henrietta Palmer married at Fulford, York, on 26 February 1884, Arthur Stannard and they had

140-597: A community area Canfield, Ohio , a city Canfield, Braxton County, West Virginia , an unincorporated community Canfield, Randolph County, West Virginia , an unincorporated community Canfield Creek , a stream in Minnesota Elsewhere [ edit ] Canfield, Ontario , Canada Canfield Mesa , Victoria Land, Antarctica Great Canfield and Little Canfield , Essex, England People [ edit ] Canfield (surname) Other uses [ edit ] USS  Canfield  (DE-262) ,

168-566: A diamond ring in recognition of her services to the town. Well known in journalistic circles, she was first president of the Writers' Club (1892), and was president of the Society of Women Journalists (1901–03). Mrs. Stannard died, from complications following an accident, on 13 December 1911 at York House, Hurlingham, Putney . She was cremated and the ashes interred at Woking Crematorium . Notwithstanding her many activities, she left only £547. She

196-555: A penny weekly magazine, Golden Gates ; in 1892 the title was altered to Winter's Weekly, and in its first issues it launched the career of Nora Vynne . The magazine continued until 1895, but in 1896, the health of her husband and of her youngest daughter made residence at the seaside imperative, and Dieppe became her home until 1901, when she returned to London, retaining a house at Dieppe for summer residence until 1909. She wrote enthusiastic articles about Dieppe which greatly increased its popularity. The municipality presented her with

224-430: A player was fortunate enough to place all 52 cards into the foundations, the player would win $ 2,600. On average players made a loss of about five to six cards per game. Canfield offered it as a novelty but it never really took off. The main reasons were the fact that a single game duration took longer than an average casino game and for every gambler playing a game Canfield needed to hire a croupier . In 1907, Canfield sold

252-412: A quite different game. The author of Hoyle's Games acknowledges that there are several ways of playing the game but only describes what he speculates is "probably the original form". However, it is merely a gambling version of Demon in which "the banker sells a pack of 52 cards for $ 52, and... agrees to pay $ 5 for every card the player gets down in the 'top line'". How Demon came to be called Canfield in

280-624: A son, scriptwriter Eliot Stannard , and three daughters. She settled in London and continued her literary endeavours. In 1885, Booties' Baby: a story of the Scarlet Lancers, the tale that assured her popularity, appeared in the Graphic . Two million copies were sold within ten years of its first publication. Tales of a similar character, with military life for their setting, followed in rapid succession until her death. There are 112 entries to her name in

308-437: Is a much easier game to win, likely due to getting all four foundations at the start of the game. Most players will be able to win close to 44% of their games, regardless of skill level, a much higher win rate than is usually achieved by casual players of Canfield. Henrietta Stannard Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (née Palmer ; 13 July 1856 – 13 December 1911) writing under the pseudonym of John Strange Winter ,

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336-495: Is first recorded in 1891 in England by Mary Whitmore Jones as Demon Patience. She describes it as "by far the best game for one pack that has yet been invented," and goes on to say that its "very uncomplimentary name" seems to derive from its ability to frustrate. "Truly a mocking spirit appears to preside over the game, and snatches success from the player often at the last moment, when it seems just within his grasp." Nevertheless, when

364-557: Is now called Klondike. Confusion subsequently arose because the name Canfield was transferred in North American circles to the British game of Demon, while Britain followed early American sources in giving the name Canfield to the game now known in America as Klondike . More recently, it has been argued that the game originally played at the casino was in fact Klondike, and not the one known in

392-439: Is where the demon comes in. It is well called 'Demon Patience'. I have often tried a dozen times to do it, and failed each time when it has seemed just within my grasp. Believe me... it is the one form of Patience which puts all the others into the shade; it is the one form of which one never tires; it is always interesting, always fresh, always tantalizing." A 1910 publication of Fry's Magazine edited by C.B. Fry confirms that

420-523: The British Museum Catalogue. She found an admirer of her work in leading art critic John Ruskin and in 1888 visited at his home in Sandgate . Ruskin wrote of 'John Strange Winter' as "the author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British soldier". For some time Ruskin and John Strange Winter constantly corresponded. In 1891, she started

448-569: The US is unclear, but it is frequently linked to noted gambler Richard A. Canfield, who, in 1894, took over the Clubhouse in Saratoga Springs, New York . Some time after 1900, he encouraged gamblers to "buy" a deck of cards. Some sources say the cost was $ 50, Others say it was $ 52. The gambler would then play a game of solitaire and earn $ 5 for every card they managed to place into the foundations; if

476-460: The US today as Canfield. To play the game, one must first deal thirteen cards face down into one packet and then turn the top card up. These cards form a reserve called the "demon", the top card of which is available for play . The next card is dealt on the first of a row of four foundations to the right of the reserve. This card is the first foundation card or base card ; the remaining three (currently empty) foundations must be started with

504-510: The casino to the City of Saratoga Springs "at quite a loss". Sources differ over precisely which game Canfield actually used. He himself called the game "Klondike", but some of the earliest known rules for Klondike go under the name of Canfield. For example, in 1908, George Hapgood's work contains rules for "Demon Patience", plagiarised from Whitmore Jones and describing what is now called Canfield in America, and rules for "Canfield" which describe what

532-439: The commercially produced Dutch Blitz and Ligretto . Under the standard rules using a three card draw, Canfield cannot be completed successfully very often. Running a computer solver on 50,000 random Canfield deals has shown that about 71% of all games are winnable. In the average game, 39.9 cards were able to be moved to the foundation. Because the reserve cards are hidden, and because the three-at-a-time dealing of cards from

560-399: The game is called Demon patience "because the player is so often beaten by the awkward position of a single card which avoids any appearance at the critical period in a perverse manner which at times is quite demoniacal." Meanwhile, Demon had travelled to America, where the earliest description of it, published in the 1907 Hoyle's Games , confusingly calls it Klondike , actually the name of

588-408: The player does succeed in getting the patience out, "it is a triumph to have conquered the demon." In Henrietta Stannard 's 1895 novel, A Magnificent Young Man , Mrs. Bladenbrook invites the curate to "show me this wonderful new game of yours". He fails to get it out declaring, "Ah, it is no use." Mrs. Bladenbrook asks, "But you are nearly done?" "But I am not quite done," replies the curate, "that

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616-416: The stock are dealt, in packets of three and face up, to a waste pile . After each packet of three is dealt, the top card of the waste pile is played to a foundation pile or the tableau if possible and in accordance with these rules. The top card of the reserve must be used whenever possible to fill any gaps on the tableau or build on a foundation; in case the reserve is used up, it may be filled from cards from

644-465: The stock means that cards played early in the game can impact which stock cards are available much later, it is very difficult by normal playing standards to come anywhere near theoretically possible win rates. This would make it plausible for expert-level players to claim win rates of around 35%. In the Storehouse variant, the maximum possible win rate drops to about 44%. In practice, however, Storehouse

672-503: The title Canfield . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canfield&oldid=1069490887 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Canfield (solitaire) The game

700-414: The two-deck game American Toad . Beehive is a much simpler solitaire game that uses a Storehouse layout, but requires players to match cards of the same value, and is geared towards children. Racing Demon , an English game known as Nerts or Pounce in the US, is a real-time variation of Canfield that enables the game to be played competitively between multiple players. It was the inspiration for

728-476: The waste pile. Cards may be moved between tableau piles either individually or as a complete sequence, provided the entire column is moved. One can make unlimited re-deals as long as there are moves, although Richard Canfield himself restricted the number of times that gamblers could re-deal the stock. The game is won when all cards are placed in the foundations. Some variants of the game include: Other closely related solitaire games include Duchess and

756-625: Was a British novelist. She was founding president of the Writers' Club in 1892, and president of the Society of Women Journalists in 1901 to 1903. She was born on 13 January 1856 in Trinity Lane, York , the only daughter of Henry Vaughan Palmer, rector of St. Margaret's, York , and his wife Emily Catherine Cowling. Her father had been an officer in the Royal Artillery before taking religious orders, and

784-532: Was descended from several generations of soldiers. Her great-great-great-grandmother was the actress Hannah Pritchard . Henrietta was educated at Bootham House School, York. In 1874, she began her career as a novelist by writing under the pseudonym of 'Violet Whyte' for the Family Herald. Her connection with that journal lasted for ten years, and she contributed to it 42 short stories issued as supplements, besides many long serials. In 1881, appeared Cavalry Life,

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