Clock (card game)
Clock or Sundial is a luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. It is closely related to Travellers.
| A Patience game | |
Initial layout; numbers/letters represent the piles. | |
| Named variant | Watch |
|---|---|
| Type | Non-Builder, Shuttler |
| Deck | Single 52-card |
| Related games | |
| Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Travellers, Wandering Card | |
Clock is a purely mechanical process with no room for skill, and the chances of winning are exactly 1 in 13. It has a feature described by Parlett as 'shuttling' in which a card is placed at the bottom of a pile and the next card to be played comes off the top of the same pile.
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