Accordion (card game)

This article is about the card game. For the musical instrument, see Accordion. For other uses, see Accordion (disambiguation).
Accordion
A patience or solitaire game
Alternative namesThe Idle Year, Tower of Babel, Methuselah, Leapfrog
FamilyNon-builder
DeckSingle 52-card
Playing time5 min[1]
Odds of winning1 in 100[1]

Accordion is a patience or card solitaire using a single deck of playing cards. It is so named because it looks like accordion pleats, which have to be ironed out.[2] The object is to compress the entire deck into one pile like an accordion.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Morehead & Mott-Smith (2001), p. 57.
  2. ^ "Accordion" (p.13) in The Little Book of Solitaire, Running Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7624-1381-6
  3. ^ Walter B. Gibson (23 October 2013). Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games: Rules of All the Basic Games and Popular Variations. Crown. pp. 381–. ISBN 978-0-307-48609-7.
  4. ^ "Accordion" (p.11) in Card Games by John Cornelius, Parragon, 1998. ISBN 1-86309-571-3