Solitaire

E193792

Solitaire is a classic single-player card game that became widely known through its inclusion as a standard game on early Microsoft Windows operating systems.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Solitaire canonical 3
FreeCell 1
Klondike Solitaire 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf card game
patience game
single-player game
alsoKnownAs Solitaire
surface form: Klondike Solitaire

Patience
hasCardDesignBy Susan Kare
hasCommonRuleVariant draw one card from stock
draw three cards from stock
hasComponent foundation piles
stock pile
tableau piles
waste pile
hasGenre casual game
strategy puzzle
hasLoseCondition no legal moves remaining
hasPlayerCount 1
hasPopularDigitalVersionOn Windows
surface form: Microsoft Windows
hasPrimaryGoal move all cards to foundation piles by suit in ascending order
hasRandomnessSource initial shuffle of the deck
hasScoringSystem move-based scoring (in many digital versions)
time-based scoring (in many digital versions)
hasTypicalTheme standard French-suited playing cards
hasWinCondition all cards moved to foundations
inspiredOtherGames Solitaire self-linksurface differs
surface form: FreeCell

Solitaire self-linksurface differs
surface form: Pyramid Solitaire

Solitaire self-linksurface differs
surface form: Spider Solitaire

TriPeaks
isDeterministic true
isMostFamousVariantOf Klondike
isPerfectInformationGame true
isPlayableOn mobile device
personal computer
physical tabletop
isPopularIn home computing
office environments
isTurnBased true
requiresSkill patience
planning
probability assessment
teachesInteractionConcept double-clicking
drag and drop
usesPlayingCards standard 52-card deck
wasBundledWith Windows 3.x
surface form: Microsoft Windows 3.0
wasDevelopedForWindowsBy Microsoft
wasIntroducedAsWindowsGameIn 1990
wasProgrammedBy Wes Cherry
wasUsedTo familiarize users with mouse operations

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Windows 95 includedComponent Solitaire
Solitaire alsoKnownAs Solitaire
this entity surface form: Klondike Solitaire
Solitaire inspiredOtherGames Solitaire self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Spider Solitaire
Solitaire inspiredOtherGames Solitaire self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: FreeCell
Solitaire inspiredOtherGames Solitaire self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Pyramid Solitaire
Laura Branigan notableWork Solitaire
Laura Branigan notableSingle Solitaire