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Solitaire Card Games Facts and Trivia
There are over 1000 variations of solitaire.
The seven pile game that builds black on red that everyone calls 'Solitaire' is actually called Klondike.
Almost all solitaire games derive from about one dozen 'base' games.
'Idiot's Delight' is an alternative name to almost all basic solitaire games.
In most parts of the English speaking world, solitaire is referred to as 'Patience'.
The solitaire game 'Tam O' Shanter' is nearly impossible to win.
Freecell, Spider and Cruel were made popular by the Windows operating system from Microsoft.
The author of Pretty Good Solitaire has invented over 100 solitaire games.
Almost every shuffle of the popular solitaire game 'Freecell' can be solved, however, unsolvable games have been found.
Solitaire is usually played with a special 'Patience' pack with smaller cards and suit symbols on all four sides.
Lady Cadogan was the inventor and publisher of many solitaire games and has written several books on the subject.
