DCHP-3

Klondike game

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a game of solitaire in which 28 cards are laid out in seven piles, the first of which has one card face up, the second two cards with the top one face up, and so on, the player using the rest of the deck and the exposed cards to build runs of alternating colors in an attempt to use up all the cards and thus make four complete runs. Also Klondike.

Quotations

1910
In one corner was a very ornate bar, and all around the capacious room were gambling devices of every kind. There were crap-tables . . . the Klondike game, Keno, stud poker, roulette and faro outfits.
1953
We sat around . . . and we played a vicious gambling patience called Klondike, morning, noon, and night, which cost me a vast amount of money. . . .