These games usually require treating cards from either either either the shuffled deck into a prescribed arrangement in the tabletop, from which the streaming video player tries to reorder the deck by lawsuit & rank across a series of moves transferring cards from of these place to a second under prescribed restrictions. A few games allow a reshuffle of the deck(s), and/or even the placement of cards into newly or 'empty' locations.

Solitaire has its have language; look at solitaire terminology.

There are numbers of different solitaire games, however a term "Solitaire" is typically wont to refer specifically to the virtually all easily-known form, known as "Klondike". Klondike & another solitaire games stand been adapted into both-streaming video player competitory games.

There are the brobdingnagian array of variations on the solitaire/patience theme, utilizing either 1 or even supplementary decks of cards, by having system of varying complexness & skill levels. Numerous one st& been converted to electronic form and come available when computer games. Basic forms of Klondike solitaire and FreeCell come with each todays installation of Microsoft Windows, for example, & Windows XP also includes a version of Spider. 123 Free Solitaire and PySol are two examples of solitaire collections that may be downloaded from either a net at there is no charge.

A term 'solitaire' is besides utilized for individual-streaming video player games of concentration & skill utilizing the placed layout of tiles, pegs or stones like than cards. These games include: Peg solitaire Shanghai solitaire (Computerised Mahjong)

Examples of Solitaire card games

A
Above and Below Accordion Aces Square Aces Up Ace-To-King Acme Adela Patience Agnes I (Sorel) Agnes II (Bernauer) Algerian Patience Alhambra All Fours All In A Row Alternate Patience Alternation Amazons Ant American Toad Aremis Argos Auld Lang Syne Aunt Mary

B
Babette Baccarat Solitaire Backbone Baker's Dozen Baker's Dozen Two Decks Baker's Game Baroness* Batsford Beleaguered Castle Betsy Ross Bisley Black Hole Blind Alleys Block Fourteen Blockade Blondes and Brunettes Board Patience Box Kite Bridesmaids Brigade Bristol British Blockade British Constitution British Square Buffalo Bill Busy Aces But The Same

C
Caesar Calculation Calculation by Threes Canadian Patience Canfield Canfield Three Decks Canister Capricieuse Captive Queens Carlton Carpet Carre Napoleon Casket Castles in Spain Chameleon Chess Solitaire Chessboard Chinese Patience Cicely Citadel Class Day Climb The Hill Clock Clock Patience/Clock Solitaire* Coleopter Colonel Colorado Colours Concentration Cone Congress Connections Contradance Corners Corona Counting Courtyard Cover Up Crescent Crescent Four Decks Cribbage Solitaire Cribbage Square Solitaire Crazy Quilt* Cruel Curds and Whey* Czarina

D
Decade Deuces Diamond Diplomat Double Canfield Double Dot Double Golf Double Klondike Double Line Double or Quits Double Rail Doublets Duchess Duchess de Luynes Duke

E
Eagle Wing Easthaven Egyptian Pyramid Eight Off Eighteens Eleanor's Solitaire Elevens Elizabeth Emperor Engineer Everest Exchange

F
Faerie Queen Falling Star Fan Fanny Fascination Fan Fifteens Fifteen to Win Finesse Figures Florentine Patience Flower Garden Flower Garden Two Decks Fly Following Following Two Decks Forget-Me-Not Fortress Fortune's Favor Forty and Eight Forty Thieves Forty Thieves Four Decks Forty Thieves Three Decks Forty-Nine Four By Four Four Seasons Four Seasons Two Decks Four Sums Fourteen Out Frame FreeCell FreeCell Four Decks FreeCell Reversed FreeCell Thirteens FreeCell Three Decks FreeCell Two Decks French Patience French Solitaire Frog

G
Gaps Gargantua Gate General's Patience German Patience Giant Glencoe Goldfield Golf Golf A-K Golf A-K Two Decks Golf Pyramids Good Measure Good Measure Two Decks Grandfather Grandfather's Clock Grandmamma's Patience Grant's Reinforcement Great Wheel Griffon

H
Haden Half And Half Harp Heads And Tails Hemispheres Hit or Miss Horloge House in the Wood House of Commons House of Lords House on the Hill

I
Icarus Idle Aces Imaginary Thirteen Imperial Indian Intelligence Interregnum Intrigue

J
Jacqueline Joker Forty Thieves Joker FreeCell Joker Golf A-K Joker Klondike Joker Pyramid Jubilee Juvenile

K
Khedive King Albert King Edward King of Scotland Kingdom Kings King's Audience King's Cross Klondike Klondike by Threes Klondike Four Decks Klondike Reversed Klondike Three Decks Knaves Knaves' Dial Knight Catch All Knights Errant

L
La Belle Lucie La Belle Lucie Player's Choice La Belle Lucie with a Draw Labyrinth Lady Betty Lady of the Manor Lady Palk Laggard Lady Lagoon Le Croix d'Honneur Legion Letter A Letter X Leoni's Own Les Quatre Coins Limited Line Up Little Billee Little Spider Little Windmill Louis Louisa Lucas

M
Mantis Maria Marshal Martha Matrimony* Maze Memory-Up (6x4 grid) Memory-Up (8x5 grid) Midshipman Milky Way Milligan Harp Minerve Mirror Miss Milligan Mississippi Monte Carlo Monte Carlo Thirteens Mount Olympus Move for the Goal Mrs. Mop Museum

N
Napoleon Napoleon's Exile Nationale Nestor New York New Zealand Patience Nines Ninety-One Nivernaise Number Fourteen Number Ten

O
Octagon Octave Odd and Even Only-One-Left (4x4 square) Puzzle Only-One-Left (5x5 square) Puzzle Open Crescent Open Start Opus Osmosis

P
Pairs Palace Parallels Passengers Patriarchs Peek Peg Star Solitaire Penguin Peony Perpetual Motion Perseverance Persian Patience Picture Patience Poker Solitaire Portuguese Solitaire* Precedence Princess Patience Prisoners Pulsar Push Pin Push in the Corner Put-Them-In-Order (3x3 square) Puzzle Put-Them-In-Order (4x4 square) Puzzle Put-Them-In-Order (5x5 square) Puzzle Pyramid Pyramid (Easy Couple) Pyramid by Seven Pyramid Two Decks Pyramid's Stories

Q
Quadrangle Quadruplets Quartets Queen of Italy Queens and Knaves

R
Rachel Railway Rainbow Rank and File* Rank by Rank Red and Black Regal Family Reversi Robert Rosette Rouge et Noir Rows of Four Royal Aids Royal Cotillion Royal Marriage Royal Parade Royal Ranks Royal Rendezvous Royal Square Rule of Seven Russian Solitaire

S
S Patience Salic Law Scorpion Scarab Scotch Patience Senior Wrangler Sentinel Serpent Poker Solitaire Seven Sisters Seven Up Shamrocks Shanghai Shifting Shuttle Simple Simon Simplex Simplicity Single Rail Sir Tommy Sir Tommy Two Decks Six By Six Sixes and Sevens Sly Fox Solid Square Solitaire Showdown* Somerset Spaces* Spanish Patience Spider Spider One Suit Spider Three Decks Spider Two Suits Spiderette Squadron Square St. Helena Stalactites Stalactites and Stalagmites Step by Step Steps Step-Up Stonewall Storehouse Strategy Streets Streets and Alleys Suit by Suit Sultan Sum of Five Super Flower Garden Superior Canfield Sydney Solitaire

T
Tabby Cat* Tam O'Shanter Tantalus Tens The Dial The Dial II The Flea The Plot The Red and the Black The Spark Thirteen, Fifteen, Seventeen Thirteen Up Thirteens Thirty Thirty-Six Three Blind Mice* Three Hills Three Pyramids Three Shuffles and a Draw* Thumb and Pouch Tournament Tower of Hanoy Tower of Pisa Trafalgar Square Transformation Trapezoid Travellers Trefoil Triad Tri Peaks* Triple Alliance Triple Line Tristan and Isolde Twenty Twin Queens Two Rings

U-Z
Uncle Sam Up or Down Variegated Canfield Vertical Virginia Reel Waning Moon Wasp* Waste the Same Westcliff Wheatsheaf Whitehead Will o' the Wisp Windmill Wish Xantia Yukon Yukon Three Decks Yukon Two Decks Zodiac

(Unless marked by an star, a lot games come from either a 440 games of [http://www.solsuite.com Solsuite 2005].)

Reference Materials
Lee, Sloane & Packard, Gabriel. Century Right Solitaire Games: One c Ways to Email Yourself by having the Deck of Cards. ; Just released York, North. Y.: Cardoza Publication, 2004. (ISBN One-58042-115-6) Arnold, Peter. Cards for A single. London: Hamlyn, 2002 (ISBN 0-600-60727-Five) Moorehead, Albert H. & Mott-Smith, Geoffrey. A Complete Book of Solitaire & Patience Games. Future York: Diminutive Books, 1977 (ISBN 0553262408) Crépeau, Pierre. A Complete Book of Solitaire (the translation of Le Grand Livre des Patiences). Willowdale, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2001. (ISBN 1552095975)