1. The 12-hour-system in English

Clock Solitaire. Clock Solitaire is a simple solitaire card game where the player has 13 piles arranged to resemble the face of a clock. The game begins with the player picking the first card to move. That card can be dragged to the pile that corresponds with the position on the clock. Clock Patience, a classic solitaire card game for your phone or tablet. This is a very easy card game that only takes a couple of minutes to play, although we're sure you'll keep coming back for more since its quite addictive. There are lots of different color schemes to play with, different speed settings, you can give cards an extra spin, we even include a fully automatic mode if you just. Clock Solitaire is only won about 1% of the time because it is entirely based on chance. Variations on Clock Solitaire. If regular Clock Solitaire is not challenging enough for you, there are some variations. While it is rare to win Clock Solitaire, the game is still loads of fun. What makes it so hard to win is that it is a card game that is entirely driven by luck. Clock Solitaire is also known as Four of a Kind, Hidden Cards, Sun Dial, and Travelers. The deck is shuffled and twelve piles of four cards each are laid out, face down, in a circle. The remaining four cards are placed, also face down, in a pile in the centre of the circle. The twelve positions around.

In English there is no 24-hour-system (sometimes it is used on TV and in timetables).

15:00 is 3 o'clock (p.m.) (on TV: fifteenhundred). That's why you use a.m. (Latin: ante meridiem) and p.m. (post meridiem) in situations where it is necessary to point out that you want to say in the morning or in the evening. In other situations (or when it is clear that school starts in the morning and the party in the evening) it is left out.

2. When to use o'clock

o'clock (abbreviation: of the clock) only on the hour

3. Quarter past and to

quarter → 15 minutes
half → 30 minutes

4. The minutes

Clock Patience Online

multiplies of 5: leave out the word minutes (but: 6.01 → It's one minute past 6.)

Clock Patience Game

Clock Solitaire Card Game Rules

Clock Patience, also called Clock Solitaire, is a luck-based patience or solitairecard game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.^[1][2] It is also known under alternative names such as Dial, Travelers, Hidden Cards, and Four of a Kind.^[3]

Clock Patience is a purely mechanical process with no room for skill, and the chances of winning are exactly 1 in 13.^[4]

Rules[edit]

One deck of cards (minus jokers) is used. The deck is shuffled and twelve piles of four cards each are laid out, face down, in a circle. The remaining four cards are placed, also face down, in a pile in the center of the circle.

The twelve positions around the circle represent the 12-hour clock and the pile in the middle represents the hands.

Play starts by turning over the top card of the central pile.When a card is revealed, it is placed face up under the pile at the corresponding hour (i.e., Ace = 1 o'clock, 2 = 2 o'clock, etc. The Jack is 11 o'clock and the Queen is 12 o'clock) and the top card of the pile of that hour is turned over. If a King is revealed, it is placed face up under the central pile.

Play continues in this fashion and the game is won if all the cards (including four Kings) are revealed; turning up the fourth king means you will have completed the clock and won the game.^[5] The game is lost if the fourth King is turned up while any cards remain face down.^[6]

Variations[edit]

A variation of Clock Patience commonly called Watch is played like Clock Patience, but players can continue the play when the fourth king appears, by replacing it with a still face-down card.^[7] The game ends when that fourth king reappears.

The Clock (sometimes also called 'German Clock') is a stock and waste type of solitaire originally called 'Die Uhr', and described in a German solitaire book by Rudolf Heinrich from 1976.^[8] This gives rules for very different game-play that depends on skill not to miss cards that can be played to the foundations.

References[edit]

Clock Patience Rules

1. ^Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith (2011). Hoyle's Rules of Games, 3rd revised and updated edition. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc. ISBN0-451-20484-0
2. ^'Clock Patience (p.12) in Card & Dice Games by N.A.C. Bathe, Robert Frederick Ltd, 2004.ISBN1-889752-06-1
3. ^'Clock' (p.36) in Little Giant Encyclopedia of Games for One or Two, The Diagram Group, 1998. ISBN0-8069-0981-1
4. ^Clock Solitaire by Weisstein, Eric W. MathWorld - A Wolfram Web Resource. Accessed 14 October 2020
5. ^'Clock Patience' (p.17) in Card Games by John Cornelius, Parragon, 1998. ISBN1-86309-571-3
6. ^'Clock' (p.25) in The Little Book of Solitaire, Running Press, 2002. ISBN0-7624-1381-6
7. ^'Clock Patience' in Glenn, Jim and Denton, Carey. The Treasury of Family Games (page 101). Reader's Digest, 2003 (ISBN9780762104314)
8. ^Heinrich, Rudolf (2011). Die schönsten Patiencen, Perlen-Reihe 641, 35th edition. Vienna: Perlen-Reihe Verlag. ISBN3-85223-095-0

See also[edit]

• The Clock (German Clock)