Playing Patience

Today we played patience. It is a complicated game but lots of fun. It's a card game and its other name is solitaire. Patience means you have to wait for a long time and stay calm and quiet – the game is called patience because it can take a while. It’s called solitaire because you can play it with just one person but you can play it with more people too. We learnt to play it as whole class, sitting in a big circle while Lauren dealt out a pack of giant playing cards. We got to play ourselves with special packs of cards, like Nemo cards which was cool!

Here are our thoughts and advice on playing patience:

 You lay out the cards so it looks like half a pyramid. Evie

You put all the aces up at the top of the rows of cards. Clarrie

You put the cards onto each other, they go downwards. If you have a ten you put a nine on it. Jamil


You can only pick up three cards from the turn over pile at once. You have to put a red five on a black six. Goldie

If you have a space you can put your king in it. Mitchell

Once you've used all the turn over cards, you go through them again in groups of three. Lola

You only count downards, unless you're putting cards on the ace pile. Alisha

You can't shuffle the turn over pile once you've started. Otherwise it's cheating. You have to be patient. Amelia

If you cheat to get it out, you feel a bit sad. Last night I played two games of solitaire and I lost. Aimee

I learnt that it takes patience! Dan

If you do all of that, you might win! Aidan

It's a hard game because you nearly almost always lose. Not many people have won it. Romy

It's a good game, I'm going to try a bit more. Jordie

It's a hard game. We played it with big cards. Dean

Leave the jokers out and if you mix the cards up you're not playing a proper game of patience. Lewis

I really like playing patience. Audrey

It's a really good game if you're on a holiday and you're bored with nothing to do and you can't go outside. Lola