Play solitaire like the experts. With key cards highlighted and nearly every possible move indicated, you can lift your solitaire play to a higher level while playing the Solitaire Games of Skill collection. You will be able to win games you could not ordinarily win. Players that are already expert would spend less time scanning the layout. More details on how you can play more skillfully are available on the Skillful Play webpage.

The Solitaire Games of Skill collection has the best card mechanics of any solitaire software. You can move cards by clicking on the place you want them to go. You can swap columns of cards in order to obtain sequences of the same suit. Nearly every game allows the player supermoves as in the FreeCell game. A supermove is a move that allows the player to move more than one card at a time based on the number of tableau spaces or vacant cells. In fact this collection goes beyond supermoves by allowing you to move cards to a column while taking into account intermediate builds on other columns. Clicking on a column of cards can send each card in the column to a different location in the layout. At the end of a game when the game is obviously won, the player does not have to continue to make perfunctory moves to finish the game. The game is finished for the player automatically. Games can be played with up to 75% less mouse movement and mouse clicks. More details on how you can play with less effort are available on the Less Effort webpage.

The frustration of playing a game for a while only to find out that the game was never winnable in the first place is obviated here. In many instances, if the layout does not give you a chance of winning, it is thrown out as described on the Filter webpage.

With its 402 games the Solitaire Games of Skill collection is not as large as some collections but there are no filler games here. You will not have to sort through a half dozen games before you find an interesting game. Almost half the games of Solitaire Games of Skill are new games not to be found elsewhere. Kings Off is a version of Eight Off with six of the eight cells unusable at the start of the game. Crevasse is the game called Gaps with only two deals and eight instead of four gaps. Super Canfield is a version of Canfield in which the player chooses which rank will be the base foundation rank after looking at all the stock cards and every third hand card. More details on new games can be found on the New Games webpage.

To experience the above features, click on the left box below for a free Demo of the Solitaire Games of Skill Collection. The Demo differs from the regular version of Solitaire Games of Skill in that it has only 30 ways to shuffle a deck of cards while the regular version has over four billion different shuffles. However the Demo shuffles are from 601 to 630 using the Microsoft FreeCell game number system and therefore include the notorious FreeCell game number 617 (see Mike Keller's website). Also after 30 days the Demo quits working.

You might also want to try Top Twenty-Five Solitaire. Top Twenty-Five Solitaire consists of the twenty-five most popular solitaire games and is taken from the 402 games of the Solitaire Games of Skill collection. Top Twenty-Five has as many shuffles as the Solitaire Games of Skill Collection and does not expire in 30 days like the Demo. More details on Top Twenty-Five are available on the Freebie page of this website. If after playing the Demo and/or Top Twenty-Five you find you want to purchase the product, click on the right box below. If your operating system is Windows XP Home Edition or a version of Windows that is earlier than XP, these products require .Net Framework 1.1 which can be downloaded using the following link: Download .Net Framework 1.1