A solitaire game played with cards. The chance of winning is 1/13, and the arithmetic mean of the number of cards turned up is 42.4.
Clock Solitaire
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References
Gardner, M. Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-of-Mind from Scientific American. New York: Vintage, pp. 244-247, 1978.Knuth, D. E. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, pp. 377 and 577, 1997.Moyse, A. Jr. 150 Ways to Play Solitaire. Chicago: Whitman, 1950.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Clock Solitaire." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ClockSolitaire.html