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Introduction to Solitaire


Solitaire, is a card game played by a single person, tha game is also known as Patience. It is one amongst the varieties of card games, the difference being it is single player and has a great variation in detail of the game.
Solitaire is called by different names in different countries. For example, solitaire is called as patience in UK English. Americans mostly refer it to as solitaire. Solitaire is nowadays gaining fame in British English, thanks to windows solitaire.
Solitaire doesn't have too many rules while playing. The rules of solitaire are simple.

Solitaire usually involves card dealing from a well shuffled deck.
In solitaire, the cards are arranged on tabletop according to some predefined rules.
The player tries to rearrange the deck by rank and suit through various moves replacing cards under predefined limitations.
Some form of the game includes reshuffling of the cards.
The solitaire game has terminology of its own. There are lots and lots of solitaire games, but the name "solitaire" itself is frequently used to denote particularly to the famous form, known as Klondike.
Some solitaire games along with Klondike are modified into multi-player games.
There are basically two scoring types, the first one is standard and the next is Vegas, it is more difficult to score more in the Vegas scoring method as it is time dependant.

Solitaire rules vary depending upon the skill level and complexity of the game, it may be played either with one deck or more decks of cards.
Solitaire, nowadays are available as computer games. Some forms of the game such as Klondike and FreeCell are available with basic windows installation of Microsoft.
Most of the Apple's iPods include solitaire game. There are also a number of similiar games available on the internet and they can be downloaded for free.
Apart from card solitaire, there are some games called Shanghai and peg solitaire. These games require an arrangement of stones or pegs and they require concentration while playing.
It is believed that Napoleon had played solitaire during his deport. There are a number of solitaire games that were named after Napoleon, like Napoleon's square, Napoleon at St. Helena etc.

These games though popularly played by all, its roots are not properly known, the actual place and time of origin of the game is not known exactly.
The major means by which this game got popular recently is that it was integrated as an extra application in windows from 1990 onwards; this game has gained popularity which is synonymous with the range of Microsoft operating systems.
As the interactive interface, i.e. the graphical user interface got popular, there was a need to make people learn this new way of operating with the graphical interface,
This game had in it all the components of windows GUI such as single click, double click, drag and drop and others, this introduced the new users to a learn through play method which is similar to the Montessori method.
Solitaire has also certain minus points, this game is so good everyone comes back for more!, the replay ability of this game makes every game different from one another.
Lots and lots of people have got into trouble, by playing solitaire...
This game goes one step further in providing relaxation for the mind as well as providing a swell means to spend time and to kick start your thought processing and problem solving abilities.



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