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Wht's your favourite solitaire card game? I'm a beleagured castle kind of person, though demon (the equally unwinnable game also known as canfield) is high on my list as well.

I dunno. I'm a sucker for games with strict rules, almost no chance of winning, and where the no-cheating code makes it an honourable but almost certain defeat. What can i say? I play like a paladin. What do your card games say about you?

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A guy was training for wilderness survival as a forest ranger. His instructor handed him a kit.

"What's this?" he asked.

"Well," said the instructor, "You've got your waterproof matches, a flare gun, some water filters, and a deck of cards."

"Cards, sir?"

"Yeah. You know. Cards. Playing cards."

"I don't understand. Why playing cards?"

"If all else fails, you just sit yourself down, start a game of solitaire, and in NO TIME FLAT you'll have somebody tappin' on your shoulder, saying, put that there red nine on the ten of spades."

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  • I got hooked on Freecell a while back. I have never tried it with a physical pack of cards, but I can't imagine it being too much different except that it would be a lot more tedious.

    • It's pretty much as you said, with the added advantage of not being able to restart the same exact game if you mess up.
  • Klondike. I grew up on Windows 3.11.
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  • Actually, I run AisleRiot [gnome.org], which gives a huge selection of games.

    I play Spider two suit or four suit, depending on what mood I'm in.
    • I a four suit Spider man myself. (wow, just had an image of Peter Parker going to his closet and seeing 4 spidy suits. :-)
      • I can see what mood you're in!
        • Yeah, I went to lunch with two girls in the office. Between me feeding one of them (D) a cherry (from my milkshake, prefixed with the obligatory, "Do you want my cherry?" comment) in the middle of the food court and then the other looking for Barbie Dolls for family and then me and D making fun of them, (we renamed them according to the way they were dressed, did you know there was a Trailer Trash Barbie, and a Skank Ho' Barbie?) I'm in a pretty chipper mood.
  • Freecell. Every game is winnable ... or so the theory says. Strict rules, no cheating, and it's a real mental work-out.
  • The form of solitaire I play most often is a game I learned from some friends (they are twins and I'll be damned if I remember which one taught it to me); the best part is that they both deny doing so at this point and wonder where I got the game from.
    So basic rules:
    Standard 52 card deck (remove jokers, and other fluff cards)
    Shuffle (obviously)
    Pull one card at a time off the top of the deck and place face up in your hand, fanned out as if you are holding a hand from any normal card game (bridge, poker,
    • i learned that game but putting the cards on the table instead of in the hand. Darned if i can remember what it's called, but it does have a name.
  • is done with a double deck of cards. It's known by many names, Forty Thieves or Napoleon at St Helena are the two that I remember.

    ^_^

  • Let's see. There's...
    • Pyramid (take out kings and pairs of cards whose values add up to 13)
    • Klondike (I play with the added difficulty of putting spades and hearts together and diamonds with clubs, whenever possible)
    • Spider (I'm good with two suits; I'm not so good that I can do four suits just yet)

    Those are my favorites, though I know a few more.

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