Aces Up is a quick and simple, one-pack, patience or solitaire card game.
[9] It shares the name Idiot's Delight with two other unrelated solitaire games, Perpetual Motion and King Albert.
It shares the name Aces Up with Easthaven, which is a variation of Klondike and is also unrelated.
The rules are first recorded in England as Drivel Patience by Mary Whitmore Jones in 1900 who acknowledges that "this is not a complimentary name... but it is the one by which it is generally known, and to those accustomed to play games required care and consideration it seems appropriate enough to this one, which stands in need of neither.
[5] Gameplay for Aces Up works as follows: When the game ends, the number of discarded cards is your score.