How to Play Solitaire Variations

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Part of the video series: How to Play Solitaire

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Summary: Learn how to play solitaire and its many variations like kings and queens, Tam O'Shanter and poker solitaire, in this free video series on card games.

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By Antonia Hoyland
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Antonia Hoyland is a card game aficionado who has been playing solitaire games since she was a toddler. An expert on dozens of games, with knowledge of about 150, Antonia has passed...read more

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Playing cards date back to ancient China, where they are believed to have originated when paper currency was both the vehicle for the card games and the bet. One popular card game that incorporates playing cards is solitaire. Solitaire is a single-player game played with a deck of 24 cards. It is very popular in the British Isles and the United States. Although it is sometimes called patience in the UK, the term solitaire is gaining popularity in the British Isles due to Microsoft's Windows.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to play solitaire and many variations thereof. After talking about solitaire terms and rules, our expert will teach you how to play eleven o'clock solitaire, double-your-fun solitaire, and kings and queens solitaire. She will show you many other variations of solitaire as well, including trusty twelve, knotty nines, saratoga, simple pairs, tam o'shanter, 10-20-30, double canfield, double trouble, poker, royal families, lucky thirteen and even a variation of solitaire called fortune's favorite.

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"Hi this is Antonia Hoyland on behalf of Expert Village. Most of us are very familiar with the card games that come on the Window operating system. You probably already know those this is about variations on that game. Things that you can do by yourself with a single deck of cards. Sometimes you are going to want to have jokers for this sometimes you are not. Most of the time you are not going to need them. The game called solitaire on most people computer is actually called Klondike or hand filled. There is always the alternative of drawing one card or 3 cards. That is what separates the 2 in Klondike you can draw one card at a time and playing filled you draw 3. So really the solitaire that we see on the computer playing filled and Klondike depending on what version that you do."

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