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When thinking of one player card games, the first game that comes to mind is without a doubt solitaire. Solitaire is a great game, wheather you're attempting to pass the time during a power outage or you're playing a game on your computer while waiting for those last five minutes of your workday to go by. During a game of solitaire it's just you against the deck of cards.

There are several ways in which to play the game of solitaire. Some play using a points system per game. Some choose to see each match as an individual game of win or lose. Sometimes solitaire is played in a manner which allows the player to use each card in the stack. Some solitaire player choose to use a three card draw which allows the player to use only every third card from the stack.

To set up a game of solitaire, the player lays out seven cards in a straight line from left to right. The first card is placed face up. The next six cards are face down. Then the player places a card face up on the second card, and the next five face down. A face up card is then added to the third pile, with the next four receiving face down cards and so on, until each stack shows one card face up. The remaining cards are placed in a stack face down near the seven stacks to be played.

The goal of solitaire is to establish four stacks, seperated by suite. Each suite is then played numerically. For instance, if you have the ace of spades, your next play would be the two of spades and so on.

Cards within the seven stacks can be played on top of one another with any suite as long as they're of a decreasing number sequence and different suite color. In other words, red can only be played on black and black can only be played on red. Also, if you're stack is showing a 10, you're looking to play 9, 8, 7 etc...

Once the player is unable to make any further plays on the cards, the game is over. If the player gets all four suits in numerical order, the player wins. Sometimes this game can become quite a challenge. Although you're the only player in solitaire, try not to be tempted to cheat. Beating the deck fair and square is often very self-satisfying.

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