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)...

Dictionary of game Card Games, David Parlett, pg. 124 ISBN 0-19-869173-4 The Oxford Guide to Card Games, David Parlett, Oxford University Press, 1990...

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...

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...

standard rummy but less spontaneous than knock rummy. Card game historian David Parlett finds Scarne's theory to be "highly implausible", and considers the...

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...

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...