"Idiot's Delight" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "So called because of the low chance of winning the game.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1910, The Cosmopolitan, volume 50, page 761",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 2, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 28",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Any of various games of solitaire or patience."
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  "etymology_text": "So called because of the low chance of winning the game.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1910, The Cosmopolitan, volume 50, page 761",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
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