Idiot's Delight

English Etymology So called because of the low chance of winning the game. Noun - Idiot's Delight Any of various games of solitaire or patience. en 1910 The Cosmopolitan 50 761 On the other hand, I know one of the biggest operators in New York who finds his recreation after a hard day’s fight with the market in solitaire—‘Idiot’s Delight’ is his especial game. en 1976 w:Kurt Vonnegut Slapstick Delacorte Press 2 28 They were fabulously well-to-do, and descended from Americans who had all but wrecked the planet with a form of Idiot’s Delight—obsessively turning money into power, and then power back into money again, and then money back into power again.