Solitaire Deluxe

Well it’s Solitaire right? We've all got it at the top of our Start menu, tucked away under accessories for when we've run out of the will to work and the boss is looking the other way. Maybe you even have a package of cards in your desk right now, waiting underneath a stack of legal paper when you get a chance to pop them out of the Bicycle carton and indulge in a few rounds of the lonely man's game. So what is the draw of a game like this?
Solitaire Deluxe really begs the question, "What do you add to a game that only uses the same fifty-two pieces of laminated paper? What can you possibly add that will give it that extra boost over to Deluxe?" Maybe the name is a little misleading.

Solitaire Deluxe is by no means the same game that Microsoft's handy little time killer that they've tossed in with our PCs since Windows 3.1. It's a bundle of 24 games, with the classics like Solitaire and Klondike mixed in with little-known gems like Forty Thieves that will end with even long-time connoisseurs of the cards scratching their heads until they break down and read the instructions. All of the different games let you tweak the rules, letting you put new twists on games or play them the way you would with a real deck in your hands. There is a feature that lets you pick out a selection of games that you play through all at once, with a final score added up through all of the matches. After cutting your teeth on the single-match games, this will probably be what keeps you coming back. The games can be rather addicting.
The game was pretty polished for its time, even in a genre of games that never concentrated all that much on pushing the old video cards to their limit. It comes with a slew of different backgrounds and cards, which should be choice enough for anyone. Maybe not the nudie decks that got us sent to the principal’s office in the seventh grade, but you can't have it all. The interface is easy to use, even for someone not very familiar with computer games and the instructions are well-written and easy to understand.
If you've gotten tired of the same Solitaire game you've been playing in your spare time since 1992, give this game a try, you won't be disappointed.