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Cloudeight Start Page Arcade "Solitaire"

Solitaire
How many of you have not played Solitaire at least a few times in your life? I see no hands! That means that almost all of you have played this game, right? Well, if you know how to play Solitaire, you should have no problem playing our version of Solitaire. Did you come here to relax or challenge your mind? If you came to challenge your mind, try one of the other games like SayWhat? or WordSearch II. If you came to relax, you're on the right page. Maybe. Solitaire can be aggravating, especially when you're not able to cheat. But, when you cheat at Solitaire, you're only cheating yourself; isn't that right? Oh, well. Everyone's different. Anyway, you can't cheat this game (we don't think!).

This is just one of several games we'll be adding to our Start Page for your enjoyment and entertainment. We've tried these games and like them. We hope you do too! If you do we'll keep them. If you don't, shame on you! Kidding. If you don't we'll find something else for you. Our goal is to make our start page a start page you use because you want to, not just because you want to help us - which we do appreciate too! We want to make our start page something you'll enjoy returning to day after day and week after week.

There's one thing you will need before you can play Solitaire (and most of you probably already have it) You will need the Shockwave player - which is both free and safe. Shockwave is a Macromedia flash implementation which is now owned by Adobe (you know the people who make Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop?). If you don't have Shockwave installed, you can get it free from http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/ .

Before you begin, here's how to play - Flash Solitaire plays like a typical game of solitaire, also called patience or Klondike. You must move cards around and try to get them all onto the four piles at the top. You can place cards in the stacks at the bottom of the screen, so long as they are alternating colors and descending numbers. For example, a black five will go on to a red six. The piles on the top accept cards of the same suit, in ascending order. For example, a 4 of clubs will go on a 3 of clubs. You start by placing aces in the top four piles. The deck to the left can be clicked on to deal 3 cards. You can take this third card and use it on the stack or the piles. If a stack is empty, you can move a king there. You can move a single card or a stack of cards in the stacks, but only a single card at a time onto the piles.

Besides playing like a normal game of solitaire, Flash Solitaire has some special features. You pay 52 points to start a game. You get 5 points for every card placed on the piles at the top. You can only go through the deck of cards three times. Pressing "New Game" will keep your current score and allow you to accumulate more points in a fresh deal. "Restart" will rest your score.

"Solitaire"

Did You Enjoy "Solitaire"?

We hope you enjoyed playing "Solitaire". If the response is positive, we'll be adding more and more games like this to our Start Page Arcade. The games, if you like them, will be licensed to us. You guessed it, the license is not free. For us that is. But they're free and always will be free for you. If you want to help support our site you can do so by making a donation, ordering one of our products, enjoying any of the Google links :-) shown in the advertisements on this page; or by downloading Picasa (see the banner at the bottom of this page). Oh, and here's the deal with Google's Picasa: we get paid a little bit if you download it - and don't worry, it's a nice program, no bad stuff and it's useful if you have lots of photos -scanned or digital - and want to find, organize and edit them in a jiffy). We'd never recommend anything that didn't work or was bad for you or you computer. No matter how much someone wanted to pay us. We promise.