Saturday 18 February 2023

The Five Great Games of patience: Live!

The Five Great Games of patience are now live at patience5games.com!

What are the Five Great Games of patience?

The games are Aunty Allis, Uncle Remus, Seven & Six, Senior Wrangler and Kings. They have been passed down by my father Grandpa Michael Keeling who played them as a young man and inherited them from his family. One was his aunt Allis (often misspelt Alice). I remember watching him playing them at home and with his mother at Hurst when I was a child.

My brother Jim persuaded Grandpa to write down the rules for posterity and then Grandpa played a hundred games and set the gold standard for performance. The rules are here and those hard-to-beat scores are here. The rules are already incorporated in  patience5games.com the scores soon will be.

These last months I have been learning how to program in JavaScript, Typescript, Html, CSS, php and SQL (phew) and have created patience5games.com where you can enjoy all five games. They even work on smart phones but you need good eyesight and dexterous fingers.
Uncle Remus in progress


Sunday 15 January 2023

Happy 2023!

Monthly visitors 2021-22. Page views ~3 each.

My main interests in the past year have not been maths and relativity  and I have not posted here for over a year. However, the website remains fairly popular and occasionally attracts useful and nice comments especially from Petra Axolotl who was my very first mentor back in 2018. So I will continue to pay a tenner a year to keep the website going.

Happy 2023, year of the rabbit.