Spite and malice, also known as cat and mouse, is a relatively modern American card game for two or more players. It is a form of competitive solitaire that can be played with two or three regular decks of cards, and it has a number of variations. It is a reworking of the late 19th-century Continental game crapette, also called Russian bank. The game had a well-deserved following in the 1970s after the bridge expert Easley Blackwood saw it played on a cruise ship and published its rules. David Parlett also identifies three early English patiences by Mary Whitmore Jones, carbouche, obstruction and dowager's patience, that bear a remarkable similarity to it. Commercial variations include Hasbro's Spite and Malice and Mattel's Skip-Bo.
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Player Count Player CountLarge Group or Variable 1 Sport
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is a relatively modern American card game
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is a relatively modern American card game for two or more players
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is a relatively modern American card game
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2 or more (originally 2)
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- Origin Year: 2002
- Playing Time: 30
- Designer: (Uncredited)
- Publisher: (Public Domain)
- Publisher: Hasbro
- Publisher: Parker Brothers
- Game Category: Card Game
- Game Mechanic: Pattern Building
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 5
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