King Albert (card game)

King Albert
A Patience game
TypeOpen packer
FamilyKlondike
DeckSingle 52-card
Playing time15 min[1]
Odds of winning2 in 5[1]

King Albert is a patience or card solitaire using a deck of 52 playing cards of the open packer type. It is a conventional building game,[2] and is said to be named after Albert I of Belgium and is a variant of Somerset.[3] It is the best known of the three games that are each called Idiot's Delight because of the low chance of winning the game (the other two are Aces Up and Perpetual Motion).

  1. ^ a b Arnold (2011), pp. 68–70.
  2. ^ "King Albert" (p.46) in The Little Book of Solitaire, Running Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7624-1381-6
  3. ^ Parlett 1979, p. 319.