The Five Great Games of patience are now live at p5g.racingdemon.net!
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 already incorporated in p5g.racingdemon.net as are 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 p5g.racingdemon.net where you can enjoy all five games. They even work on smart phones but you need good eyesight and dexterous fingers.
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| Uncle Remus in progress |
More recently (2024) I have been working with C#, ASP.NET and SignalR to produce The game of Racing Demon is also known as Nerts, Nertz, Pounce, Peanuts, Squeal, Scrooge or (in German) Rasender Teufel. It is a competitive game for two or more players or bots, using a pack of cards for each player (or team). The players race to get rid of the cards from their "Demons" (also known as "Nerts piles" , "Pounce piles", etc. - depending on what you call the game) by building them from the ace up onto common foundations.
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| Game of Racing Demon in progress |
