![]() Confusion subsequently arose because the name Canfield was transferred in North American circles to the British game of Demon, while Britain followed early American sources in giving the name Canfield to the game now known in America as Klondike. For example, in 1908, George Hapgood's work contains rules for "Demon Patience", plagiarised from Whitmore Jones and describing what is now called Canfield in America, and rules for "Canfield" which describe what is now called Klondike. He himself called the game "Klondike", but some of the earliest known rules for Klondike go under the name of Canfield. Sources differ over precisely which game Canfield actually used. In 1907, Canfield sold the casino to the City of Saratoga Springs "at quite a loss". The main reasons were the fact that a single game duration took longer than an average casino game and for every gambler playing a game Canfield needed to hire a croupier. Canfield offered it as a novelty but it never really took off. On average players made a loss of about five to six cards per game. The gambler would then play a game of solitaire and earn $5 for every card they managed to place into the foundations if a player was fortunate enough to place all 52 cards into the foundations, the player would win $500. Some sources say the cost was $50, others say it was $52. Some time after 1900, he encouraged gamblers to "buy" a deck of cards. Canfield, took over the Clubhouse in Saratoga Springs, New York. Fry confirms that the game is called Demon patience "because the player is so often beaten by the awkward position of a single card which avoids any appearance at the critical period in a perverse manner which at times is quite demoniacal." it is the one form of Patience which puts all the others into the shade it is the one form of which one never tires it is always interesting, always fresh, always tantalizing." Ī 1910 publication of Fry's Magazine edited by C.B. I have often tried a dozen times to do it, and failed each time when it has seemed just within my grasp. Bladenbrook asks, "But you are nearly done?" "But I am not quite done," replies the curate, "that is where the demon comes in. He fails to get it out declaring, "Ah, it is no use." Mrs. Bladenbrook invites the curate to "show me this wonderful new game of yours". In Henrietta Stannard's 1895 novel, A Magnificent Young Man, Mrs. ![]() "Truly a mocking spirit appears to preside over the game, and snatches success from the player often at the last moment, when it seems just within his grasp." Nevertheless when the player does succeed in getting the patience out, "it is a triumph to have conquered the demon." ![]() She describes it as "by far the best game for one pack that has yet been invented," and goes on to say that its "very uncomplimentary name" seems to derive from its ability to frustrate. The game is first recorded in 1891 in England by Mary Whitmore Jones as Demon Patience. It is closely related to Klondike, and is one of the most popular games of its type. As a result it became known as Canfield in the United States, while continuing to be called Demon Patience in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Canfield had turned it into a gambling game, although it may actually have been Klondike and not Demon that was played at his casino. It was popularised in the United States in the early 20th century as a result of a story that casino owner Richard A. It is an English game first called Demon Patience and described as "the best game for one pack that has yet been invented". ![]() Chameleon, Rainbow, Selective Canfield, Storehouse, Superior CanfieldĬanfield (US) or Demon (UK) is a patience or solitaire card game with a very low probability of winning. ![]()
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