David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board...

for this type of game during the 20th century, British games scholar David Parlett notes that there are good reasons for preferring the name 'patience'...

Parlett is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Blake Parlett (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey player David Parlett (born 1939)...

was Westernized as Khanhoo by W.H. Wilkinson in 1891. Games scholar David Parlett combines these two theories, and proposes that the Mexican game of Conquian...

"Spite and Malice" (p. 455ff) in The Penguin Book of Card Games by David Parlett, Treasure Press, 1987. ISBN 1-85051-221-3 "Russian Bank" (p. 212) in...

prisoners were also housed there after the War of 1812. Card game historian David Parlett believes that Euchre is derived from an eighteenth-century Alsatian...

Russian game Verish' Ne Verish' ("Trust, don't trust")—described by David Parlett as "an ingenious cross between Cheat and Old Maid"—is also known as...

Jack. Bartok, Mao, Taki, and Uno add further elements to the game. David Parlett describes Crazy Eights as "not so much a game as a basic pattern of...

on a cruise ship and subsequently published its rules. According to David Parlett, the game is a reworking of an old 19th-century patience called crapette...

from the Italian Wars during the reign of King of France Charles VIII. David Parlett considers Macao as the immediate precursor to baccarat. Its name and...