Solitaire

Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people. In the USA, it may refer to any card game played by oneself; the British use the term Patience to refer to solitaire with cards. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout of tiles, pegs or stones rather than cards. These games include Peg solitaire and Mahjong solitaire. Most solitaire games function as a puzzle which, due to a different starting position, may (or may not) be solved in a different fashion each time.

There are a number of different types of solitaire game. These include:

• Patience, also known as "solitaire with cards". It generally involves placing cards in a layout, and sorting them according to specific rules. A common variant is Klondike, which is included with the Windows operating system under the title Solitaire.
• Mahjong solitaire, or "solitaire with Mahjong tiles". Two sets of rules exist, each of which can be played with a variety of layouts. The rulesets are for:
  • Shanghai solitaire includes the most common layout, the turtle or flying dragon
  • Sichuan solitaire (Shisen-Sho)
• Peg solitaire (more of a puzzle than a game, since, once it is solved, it is repeatable)
• Consentration also known as Memory, Pelmanism, Shinkei-suijaku, Pexeso or simply Pairs, is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and two cards are flipped face up over each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards.