The Solitaire Games of Skill Sampler collection has five solitaire games for each of the following four types of games: FreeCell, Solitaire, Spider, and Pyramid. These games are extracted from the Solitaire Games of Skill collection discussed on the home page of this website. Solitaire Games of Skill Sampler has no time limits or limitation of features. It includes the FreeCell, Solitaire Draw One, Solitaire Draw Three, Spider One Suit, and Spider Two Suit games offered by Microsoft with their operating systems. But these games do not have the problems of blurry cards and repeating games seen in the Microsoft games. Twelve of its twenty games are original solitaire games not found elsewhere. These games are offered free of charge with no strings attached. The games included are:

  1. FreeCell is the standard FreeCell game with the same game numbering as the version of FreeCell included in Windows XP.
  2. Eight Off is the usual Eight Off game.
  3. Shamrocks Cell is the game Shamrocks played with a single cell to which tableau cards can be moved.
  4. Golf Cell is Golf played with two cells to which tableau cards can be moved.
  5. Extra Gaps is Gaps played with 3 cells and no redeals and is easier to win.
  6. Solitaire One Draw is the same as the Windows Solitaire game played by dealing the cards one at a time.
  7. Solitaire One Three is the same as the Windows Solitaire game played by dealing the cards three at a time.
  8. Little Klondike Cache is the game Solitaire with cards dealt one at a time and no redeals. In the process of dealing cards to the wastepile, up to two cards at a time can be held out of the wastepile and are available for immediate use. Games where a card in the tableau covers a card one rank higher and of opposite color are discarded.
  9. Canadian Patience has the same layout as the game Solitaire except all the cards are faceup. As in the game Yukon cards can be built on each other even if the cards above are out of sequence.
  10. Westhaven is an easier to win version of Easthaven where cards are dealt directly on the tableau instead of to a wastepile.
  11. Spider One Suit is the Windows Spider game played with one suit.
  12. Spider Two Suit is the Windows Spider game played with two suits.
  13. Spidey is a very winnable one deck version of the Windows Spider game played with four suits.
  14. Autumn Leaves is a one deck version of four suit Spider where building is only by same suit but where rank differences can be more than one.
  15. Scorpion Spiderette is a one deck version of four suit Spider where cards out of sequence can be built on cards of the same suit.
  16. Pyramid is the game Pyramid where every game is winnable.
  17. Inverted Pyramid is the standard Inverted Pyramid game.
  18. Pyramid Nestor is the game Nestor played with a Pyramid. Cards are removed in pairs when their ranks are equal.
  19. Pyramid Putt Putt is the game Putt Putt played with a Pyramid. Cards are built on single foundation. Foundation building is by rank only, up or down.
  20. Pyramid Canfield is the game Canfield with the stock made up of twenty-eight cards in the shape of a pyramid.





The Single Player Card Games Besides Solitaire collection consists of twenty-four puzzle and scoring games. These games are extracted from the Solitaire Games of Skill collection discussed on the home page of this website. Single Player Card Games Besides Solitaire has no time limits or limitation of features. It represents twenty-four games offered free of charge with no strings attached. The games included are: Lights Out 3x3, Lights Out 5x5, Lights Out 6x6, Pegged 6x6, Pegged 7x7, Pegged Cross 7x7, Pegged Cross 9x9, Knight, Slide Puzzle 3x3, Slide Puzzle 4x4, Slide Puzzle 5x5, Line Up, Caesar, Chiasms, Major Squares, Tower of Hanoi, Tall Tower of Hanoi, Royal Square, Poker Shuffle, Poker Solitaire, Cribbage Solitaire, Cribbage Squares, Accordion Cribbage, and Pohtzee. The Lights Out games have their own Fan Club website by Ken Barr.





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