Monte Carlo Patience
Description
Monte Carlo Patience is a shareware solitaire card game from AG Crump Software. It was released independently as a ‘taster’ game for their Solitaire Gold Pack, anyone registering Golf Patience received the full solitaire suite in return.
Monte Carlo Patience aka Monte Carlo Solitaire, aka Weddings aka ‘Double and Quits’ is a classic solitaire game which the player has around a 5% chance of winning, it’s popular because it is quick and easy to play.
The game is uses card number/rank only – suits are unimportant. It starts with twenty-five cards being dealt in five rows of five cards, pairs of cards of the same rank are removed if they are horizontally, vertically or diagonally next to each other. When there are no more cards to remove the player clicks on the ‘DEAL’ button which shuffles the remaining cards together and adds new cards to the 5x5 grid. The process is repeated until either all cards are removed or no more pairs can be found.
The game has sound but does not have a choice of card backs