Royal Marriage where the aim is to reduce the entire deck to King and Queen of the same suit, these being placed at the start and end of the layout at the beginning of the game. The patience is out if the "Queen and Her Lad" can be united at the end, but this is described as "very difficult". If, in adjusting the line, three or four pairs come together in succession between two cards of the same rank or suit, all the intervening cards may be pushed out. One or two cards may be discarded if they lie between two others of the same suit or rank however, if two are "pushed out" they must also be of the same suit or rank as one another. The ♥J is put at the bottom of the stock which is played singly to the right of the ♥Q. The ♥Q is laid down as the "commencing card".
Accordion gate series#
The Queen and Her Lad is first recorded by Mary Whitmore Jones in the 3rd series of her Games of Patience (1892). Other eliminator games in the style of Accordion appeared a decade later in the 1890s: The game is won when all cards are compressed into one pile. Īccording to this example, either 6♠ or 5 ♥ can be placed over 5♠. The player is not required to make a particular move if they prefer not to. Gaps left behind are filled by moving piles to the left. The cards from the entire deck are spread out in a single line.Ī pile can be moved on top of another pile immediately to its left or moved three piles to its left if the top cards of each pile have the same suit or rank. The game has been included in numerous compendia in recent decades, usually under the name Accordion. Parlett equates Accordion with Idle Year, Methuselah and Tower of Babel, but insists that a packet must be played if it can, leaving any choice between the 1st and 3rd packets to the left to the player. The name Accordion appears in the 1950s, Culbertson and Goren allowing a further deal before deciding whether or not to move a packet. The game recorded by Wood & Goddard in 1940 as Tower of Babel allows a player the choice of whether to play an available packet to its left-hand neighbour or to the third packet to the left, but does not say if a player can continue dealing without moving. Tarbart's rules are lax: a packet that can be moved need not be and judgment should be exercised as to whether to play it or not. Dick's rules are strict: a packet must be moved if possible and, if there is a choice, it must be moved to its nearest neighbour. Rules for The Idle Year are published by William Brisbane Dick in 1883 and by "Tarbart" in 1905. It may be the same game that the Italians call Qui Sace (Who Knows?). It is called The Idle Year because "with a well-shuffled pack, it will require about that length of time to accomplish it." Presumably the same logic applies to Methuselah. It was originally called The Idle Year and alternative names occasionally encountered include Tower of Babel and Methuselah.
The name Accordion comes from the appearance of the layout as it alternately grows and shrinks during play.
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