![]() ![]() Most people who have worked in an office can testify to the lure of the game, and could name one or two colleagues who spent a little too much time cutting the decks when they should have been filing reports. You mention Solitaire and-after the amazing end-game card haze-the first thing that pops into your head is that it was once seen as the single biggest threat to office productivity facing this planet’s workers. Many is the time I have stopped writing this blog or some other piece, trapped by writer’s block or simple exhaustion, to while away a few minutes recharging with a simple game of solitaire. Not just the one game: there are a whole raft of solo card games under the name solitaire – freecell, spider, Klondike, pyramid and tri-peaks among them – that people play regularly. Writer Luke Plunkett called that statistic “frightening.”īut for millions of us, solitaire fills the time it occupies our brains during long travel times, in waiting rooms, in between loading, downloading, burning to disk or compiling experiences. More than Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint and Explorer. Microsoft has even launched a version for iOS, playable on the Mac, iPhone and iPad.Īnd according to some reports, it is the most widely used program by Windows users by a long shot. ![]() So popular, in fact that a version of this 200-year-old card game has been included by Microsoft in every version of Windows since 3.0 (1990), aside from a brief hiatus with Win 8 (which gap was filled in by third-party versions). Solitaire – also known as Klondike and Patience – is a very popular game on computers. ![]()
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