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About Solitaire Source |
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Solitaire or patience is any of a family of single-player card games of a generally similar character, but varying greatly in detail. The games are generally referred to as "patience" in British English and "solitaire" in American English, although "solitaire" is gaining popularity in British English due to the game in Windows.
These games typically involve dealing cards from a shuffled deck into prescribed arrangement on a tabletop, from which the player attempts to reorder the deck by suit and
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rank through a series of moves transferring cards from one place to another
under prescribed restrictions. Some games allow for the reshuffling of the deck(s), and/or the placement of cards into new or "empty" locations. |
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There are many different solitaire games, but the term "solitaire" is often used to refer specifically to the most well-known form, called "Klondike". Klondike and some other solitaire games have been adapted into two-player competitive games.
There is a vast array of variations on the solitaire/patience theme, using either one or more decks of cards, with rules of varying complexity and skill levels. Many of these have been converted to electronic form and are available as computer games. |
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Basic forms of Klondike solitaire and Free Cell come with every current installation of Microsoft Windows, for example, and Windows Me, Windows XP and Windows Vista also include a version of Spider. Solitaire Source provides many software solitaire games that can be downloaded from the internet and played. |
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