Hoyle Solitaire
- Hoyle Solitaire (1996 on Windows 3.x, 1997 on Macintosh, 1998 on Windows)
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Hoyle Solitaire is a compilation of single player card games.
There are fifty games in this product, they fall into three groups.
The single deck games are : Aces Up, Baker's Dozen, Baroness, Beleaguered Castle, Betsy, Ross, Bowling, Bristol, Calculation, Canfield, Clock, Cribbage Square, Eagle Wing, Eight Off, Eliminator, Euchre, Flower Garden, Fortress, Four Free, Four Seasons, Gaps, Golf, Klondike, La Belle, Lucie, Nestor, Penguin, Poker Square, Pyramid, Scorpion, Seahaven Towers, Shamrocks, Slide, Spiderette, Strategy, Triplets, andYukon
The two deck games are Aces and Kings, Alhambra, Batsford, Colorado, Forty Thieves, Mount Olympus, Red and Black, Spider, Sultan, and Terrace
The 'Arcade' games, each of these games consists of one or more timed rounds, 3 Towers, Best 21, Fast 21, Pick 2, and Sum 11.
This product has alternate backgrounds and card backs, scoring and player statistics, optional music and sound effects and an undo function. Also some of the games can be customised, for example Golf can be configured to allow/prevent playing a card onto a king.
The game has both general rules for Solitaire plus detailed rules for each game. Both help files open in a separate window.
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Game added February 17, 2015. Last modified February 12, 2023.