Solitaire

[Owen Glyndwr]

Anyone play a lot of solitaire? I was never really a big solitaire player until I moved to college. I played a ridiculous amount of solitaire in July, August, September, and October, though I've cut back a lot in recent months. Now I really only play on my laptop just before classes start and in the halfway point break on Tue-Thur classes.

Personally I like Freecell the most, although I think Vista made it way to easy (unlimited undos and all that). But I also like Spider Solitaire and plain old Klondike (but I only play one draw; three draw is way too frustrating to me).

I've logged almost 500 games in 7 months or so on Freecell and have a 91% winning percentage (not really that big on an achievement if you ask me)

So now for the discussion: Do you play solitaire, and if so, what's your favorite variety/system to play it on if you do it on computers. Do you buy solitaire package games (my parents did that). And if you fancy a bit of bragging, what's your amount of games played/winning percentage on the variety you're most proud of?

[miotas]

Solitaire package game? You mean a pack of cards?

I play patience every now and then if I've got 5 minutes that need killing. I lose as often as I win. I also like playing minesweeper if I've got a few minutes to kill.

[Owen Glyndwr]

No, what I mean is you can buy a computer game that has a variety of solitaire games you can play on the computer. For example, my parent's bought "Solitaire Deluxe" which had about 50 games on it, running from the standard Klondike and Golf, to more complex games like La Nivernaise.

In America you can usually pick one up in the bargain bin section of target (with dated and online based games like Railroad Tycoon 3, Civilization 3, and Diner Dash) for about ten bucks.

[R'as al Ghul]

My wife plays a lot of solitaire and we've found this to be the best collection. Plus, it's free.
http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/

PySolFC is a collection of more than 1000 solitaire card games. It is a fork of PySol Solitaire.

There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck.

Its features include modern look and feel (uses Ttk widget set), multiple cardsets and tableau backgrounds, sound, unlimited undo, player statistics, a hint system, demo games, a solitaire wizard, support for user written plug-ins, an integrated HTML help browser, and lots of documentation.

PySolFC is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.