04/26/2021
Did you know that playing card games has been a favorite past-time since the 9th century AD? For centuries people have been gathering together at parties and social events and dealing out cards. The earliest known deck of cards originated in China bu...
04/12/2021
We all know that playing games, whether it be a board game, a video game or a team sport, can be a great way to pass the time and have fun - we have been engaging in this activity since childhood! But many of us don’t realize that the benefits of pla...
3/25/2021
When we ask our users why they come to Solitaired, their answer is simple: it makes them happy. It got us curious. What does it take to be happy. We questioned over 3,900 people in every state about how much more money they would need to make them ha...
3/25/2021
At Solitaired our mission is to provide moments of happiness in our often busy days. We ran a survey to learn more about how much more income people would need by state to be happy, and how online games contribute to their happiness. Here are the res...
03/18/2021
One-player card games are called by some form of the word ‘solitaire’ in some countries (US, Spain, Italy, etc), ‘patience‘ in others (UK, France, etc) or ‘kabale’ in others (Scandinavia, eastern Europe), but both ‘solitaire’ and ‘patience’ are incre...
02/28/2021
While many teams last year were suddenly thrown into the deep end and forced to figure out how to work successfully remotely, we already had a remote team. However, we had grown complacent. We had our remote processes, but we were so focused on our...
01/19/2021
We’ve always been believers that a great work culture will lead to positive results. Our thinking is simple: if you have fun at work and collaborating with your colleagues, you’ll be motivated to bring your best work to the table. In fact, with our...
1/12/2021
Hearts is an evasion-based trick-taking card game. To play it, you will need 3 to 6 players, although 4 is ideal. The game is played with a standard deck of 52 cards and goes on till someone reaches 100 points. At that moment, the player who has the ...
1/7/2021
By November 5, 2020, as election results continued to be tallied, it was becoming certain that Joe Biden would go on to become the winner of the 2020 US presidential election. But the outcome was far more nail-biting than expected. After all, surveys...
12/16/2020
Being card game geeks, we run our solitaire site as a fun hobby. As we gained some users though over the last year and launched a subscription service to generate some side income, we had to make sure we had reasonable customer support. It was a no...
12/08/2020
We’ve been hard at work improving our free online solitaire games. Our goal is to create one of the best destinations to have fun and play solitaire. Over the last few months, we’ve introduced a number of features to improve gameplay: We have a gam...
11/19/2020
Solitaire is a great single-player card game that you can play to challenge yourself or to simply kill some time during a break. Most people are familiar with Classic Solitaire, also called Klondike Solitaire, which became a default game on Windows P...
11/09/2020
Card games have been around for quite a long time, with the earliest games dating back to about 1000 AD in China. Games have evolved quite a lot in the past millennia, but most of the games we play today are not that modern. Take Hearts and Spades, f...
10/30/2020
Playing cards have been around for much longer than any of us think. Even though the cards we use today are relatively recent, the earliest records of playing cards date back to the Tan dynasty around the 9th century AD. Even though card games were c...
10/16/2020
Solitaire card games are a popular form of entertainment. However, with over 500 variations of solitaire games, it can be overwhelming to choose which one to play. Here are 5 popular ones you should check out. 1. Thieves of Egypt Like nearly all the ...
10/04/2020
Throughout the years, video games have been accused of leading to violence and addiction, especially in children. However, some studies have found that there are many positive aspects to them and that they may even improve our cognitive abilities. S...
9/26/2020
Ah, Solitaire. It’s been used as an escape from work for decades, but it’s also one of the best ways to pass time if you are looking to develop a skill or another hobby. It’s taken over the world, in large part thanks to its inclusion as part of Mic...
9/09/2020
What is the best free solitaire app? The best apps will have cards that are easy to read and interact with on mobile, desktop, and tablet. It will also have important key features, like the ability to undo and keep track of total moves, start new ga...
9/09/2020
Solitaire or Klondike Solitaire, 1-Card Draw, has been played for the last couple of centuries with playing cards (just for a little historical perspective). This particular game is so popular that it’s often just called Solitaire. See the Glossary a...
9/09/2020
While Classic solitaire or Klondike solitaire is by far the most ubiquitous and what most people think when they hear solitaire, there are other popular versions. FreeCell In this game mode, all cards are dealt into eight cascades face up such that...
09/09/2020
Knowing what solitaire games exist and how they differ from one another enables you to choose the type that most appeals to your tastes and temperament. There are several different criteria to base your judgment on. Type of skill and thinking involve...
9/09/2020
Solitaire along with its other popular variations like Spider and Freecell are one of the few card games with one of its core mechanics right there in the name. In fact, most folks treat solitaire (also known as “patience” in Europe) as the go-to car...
9/07/2020
In our last business, where we ran popular educational products like EasyBib, we learned the power of email registration. When users registered we found that they would come back and use our service more, and eventually subscribe. First step to imp...
8/19/2020
When choosing a free online solitaire game , there are a few important features to consider. Using undo and redo Probably the best thing about computerized Solitaire over playing cards is the ability to undo and redo moves. This isn't some cheap stu...
8/18/2020
To play solitaire, or other popular variations like Spider Solitaire or Freecell Solitaire, these key terms will help you understand how to play any solitaire game. Array - The seven columns of cards dealt at the start of the Solitaire game; also cal...
8/18/2020
Turn 3 Soitaire is an interesting version of Klondike Solitaire, in that it opens up new ways to solve the puzzle. How does this compare to 1-card draw? Strategies for 1-card draw, or Turn 1 Soitaire still generally apply, except that the cards in th...
8/17/2020
Winning Solitaire is like solving a puzzle - you need to get the pieces where they belong. This site has loads of tips, ideas, and strategies, along with explanations and diagrams. Maybe the most basic lesson to learn is not to make a move just becau...
7/28/2020
We've been working on some multiplayer capabilities for our classic card game site Solitaired, and have been exploring how to do this using Websockets. Our stack is: AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application Load Balancers (ALB, not the classic ELBs) Node.j...
7/17/2020
When my mother in law told me the solitaire game she loved was no longer online, my friend and I thought that it might be a fun project to launch our own site. We had previously built a consumer business that reached 30M students yearly, and thought...
5/26/2020
Those individuals who led advances in both air and space travel are true heroes. They pushed the boundaries of innovation, inspiring us to believe anything is possible. We’re partnered with the great biographers at Who2 to highlight 52 notable figure...
5/23/2020
Prior to building Solitaired, we had spent our past lives building an education business called Imagine Easy Solutions. We were able to help millions of students with their citations, grammar, and plagiarism. Every year, we would attend the ASU GSV c...
5/09/2020
w It’s no secret we created our online solitaire game because we love both card games and card designs. Not long ago, we had come across some Anheuser Busch card designs from 1900 kept at Columbia University. The cards were rich in history, and refle...
4/26/2020
Solitaire (also known as Klondike Solitaire) is both one of the oldest and simplest card games in the world. But despite its simplicity on its face, there’s a surprising amount of depth in strategy required to consistently win games. Even with the be...
3/29/2020
Needless to say, we created our online solitaire site because we love cards games, but we also created it because we love card designs. In an earlier blog post about the evolution of playing card design, we talked about how playing cards can be trace...
3/16/2020
Solitaire Games That Highlight Notable Women for Women’s History Month As part of Women’s History Month, we wanted to do something unique and relevant to solitaire to celebrate pioneering women. We put together two games, with each card showing an ...
2/27/2020
Most of the card prints below have never been put online before. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. French deck of Heraldry (18th century). (Guest, Vol. 2) Origin of playing cards Ming DynastyWikipedia Evidence suggests early playing ca...
1/28/2020
Solitaire is one of the most well-known card games in the world, but what does it do other than pass the time? Whether you're playing klondike solitaire, or other popular versions like spider solitaire or freecell solitaire, the game imparts a number...
01/25/2020
Team building exercises are an excellent way to bring people together and encourage them to think and act together as a team. Not only do they encourage teamwork, but they also help to promote creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, they allow colle...
1/22/2020
This was not the post I planned to write. In fact, I had a draft I was about to publish - How to run Wordpress+SSL on AWS Lightsail SSL for Cheap. But what happened instead was, after a couple weeks of configuring Wordpress, investing in some plugins...
1/18/2020
Probably to no one’s surprise, we’re big Solitaire fans. One of the best parts about Solitaire is how it can tuck into the downtime parts of your day – like when you’re waiting for a commercial to finish, or a pot to boil, or laundry to get done. At...
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