Solitaire King

Moby ID: 68030
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Solitaire King is a single player card game comprising thirty-one different games and over eighty variations thereof.

The full product consists of the following games: Aces Up, Accordion, Auld Lang Syne, Beleaguered Castle, Busy Aces, Calculation, Canfield, Clock Solitaire, Famous Fifty, Gaps, Golf Solitaire, Grandfather's Patience, Help your Neighbor, King Albert, Kitty in the Corner, Klondike, Maria Louisa, Maze, Monte Carlo, Poker Solitaire, Pyramid, Royal Marriage, Shamrocks, Sly Fox, Spider, St. Helena (Forty Thieves), Sultan, Take Eleven, Triplets, Trusty Twelves, and Yukon.

It was customary to for developers to advertise their products by publishing a limited or crippled version of it to attract potential buyers. With Solitaire King the developers released some of the titles as freestanding freeware games. This in itself is not unusual, what is unusual is that they released so many. Thirteen freeware games were identified when this submission was first made and many more have been found since, according to this source, as many as twenty-four of the games were released in this manner.

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Solitaire King: Poker Solitaire
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: Golf Solitaire
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: Clock Solitaire
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: King Albert
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: Maze
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: Yukon
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: Triplets
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: Pyramid
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x
Solitaire King: Shamrocks
Released 1995 on Windows 3.x

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Game added by piltdown_man.

Game added August 29, 2014. Last modified February 12, 2023.