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<p>Playing solitaire with a traditional deck of playing cards is a pastime that goes back a couple of hundred years. But the birth of the personal computer injected new life into these classic games, and the digital revolution has helped bring solitaire <a href="https://www.wjplayingcards.com/custom-game-cards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>custom card game</strong></a> to a whole new audience. </p><p><br></p><p>But not all solitaire card games are created equal. To begin with, this is a very large family of games, and its family members aren't all kissing cousins that are merely small variations of the same thing. While many solitaire games do share much in common, there's also a surprising amount of differences between some of them. They can offer very different challenges, some of which require real skill, strategic placement, and careful card counting, while others can be played almost on auto-pilot in a very chilled and relaxed frame of mind. Whether or not you can complete them in some cases just comes down to stupid and pure luck, but there are many excellent solitaire games that take real skill to play well, and will prove to be a rewarding and satisfying experience to come back to often.</p><p><br></p><p>So what are some of the top solitaire games you really should know about? I've done some scouring around to try to figure out what solitaire games have proven most popular, to help you get started with the very best, rather than waste time with mediocre or less-than-satisfying games. But following closely on their heels are two other favourites: Pyramid and Golf. </p><p><br></p><p>But another reason for the popularity of Pyramid and Golf is their simplicity. They are widely considered to fall into the category of matching games, or adding and pairing games. Typically, <strong>solitaire card games</strong> in this family have the objective of matching two cards, either by pairing ones of the same rank (e.g. two Aces) or adjacent ranks (e.g. an Ace and a Two), or by adding two cards together to reach a certain value. It's a common genre, and some of the most popular solitaire card games of all time are among them, including the two included in Microsoft's standard base suite of five solitaire games: Pyramid, and a variation of Golf called Tri-Peaks. Games of this sort have typically less complicated rules than builder-type solitaire games, making them an ideal starting point for children and first-timers.</p><p><br></p><p>NB: You can play these games on many websites, but I've chosen to use Solitaired, simply because it's free and easy, so the accompanying screenshots below are of games I've played on their site.</p><p><br></p><p>Pyramid</p><p>Overview: The name of Pyramid gets its name for the triangular shape in which the <a href="https://www.wjplayingcards.com/poker-cards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>poker cards</strong></a> are dealt at the start of the game. </p><p><br></p><p>Game-play: This game is a classic example of the "adding-and-pairing" genre of solitaire card games. You deal 28 face-up cards in an overlapping fashion to create a pyramid, starting with a row of one, then a row of two, and so on until a row of seven cards. With Jacks counting as 11, Queens as 12, and Kings as 13, any two available and unblocked cards can be removed if their combined value adds up to 13. Cards are turned up from the stock one at a time, and may be used as part of these pairs. You win if you clear the entire pyramid.</p><p><br></p><p>Variations: There are many common variations on Pyramid, many to make the game easier, such as by allowing multiple passes through the stock, or by dealing the final row of 7 cards as a separate reserve that's available throughout the game. Less common variations that simplify game-play include adding a free storage cell, allowing a card to make a pair with the one immediately underneath it, or by keeping the top-card of the stock pile face-up at all times. In Apophis, three waste piles are used instead of just one.</p>
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