Editing Baker's Game (section)

== History ==

One of the oldest ancestors of Baker's Game is [[Eight Off]]. In the June 1968 edition of ''[[Scientific American]]'', [[Martin Gardner]] described in his "Mathematical Games" column a game by C. L. Baker, that is now known as '''Baker's Game'''. Gardner wrote "The game was taught to Baker by his father, who in turn learned it from an Englishman during the 1920s".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Mathematical Games |magazine=Scientific American |first=Martin |last=Gardner |date=June 1968 |volume=218 |issue=6 |page=114}}</ref>

The description of Baker's Game in the "Mathematical Games" column inspired Paul Alfille to create [[FreeCell]] and he coded it for the [[PLATO (computer system)|PLATO]] educational computer system, which ended up becoming more popular than Baker's Game.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E6DE143DF934A25753C1A9649C8B63 |title=One Down, 31,999 to Go: Surrendering to a Solitary Obsession |work=New York Times |last=Kaye |first=Ellen |date=October 17, 2002}}</ref>