

These games include Peg solitaire and Shanghai solitaire. The term solitaire is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout of tiles, pegs or stones rather than cards.

However it is possible to play the same games competitively (often a head to head race) and cooperatively. Solitaire, also called patience, often refers to single-player card games involving a layout of cards with a goal of sorting them in some manner. It is a staple of computer operating systems, here shown as KPatience on the KDE desktop environment. Klondike is the best-known form of solitaire to the point of being a synecdoche. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).
