Online Card Games

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We all fancy a quick hour to kill with a popular game to play, and nothing comes better than the traditional card game. They have all stood the test of time, with rules that have evolved over time – and they are now in the digital world, available to play on our computers or wherever we go via mobile.

The choices are vast, and selection can sometimes be difficult.

We all have our favourites, but other games can be more user friendly, meaning that we may have to drift elsewhere and learn. Not always of course – if poker, for example is your thing, then you’re in luck – the options are endless!

Here we list some of the more popular games that can be enjoyed on many platforms and some of which are also popular on social media, so that you can enjoying playing with (and against) your friends and family.

Poker

Let’s face it, poker is the big bad boy – the king of card games. It goes back a long, long way and has been converted and changed into many different playing styles over the centuries. The internet hasn’t diverted from that – many, many different forms of poker can be found online.

Games like Perfect Poker and Poker Mob are both accessible on the Facebook platform and have enormous numbers of members, ensuring that there is also an opponent and table to play on. The beauty of the social media outlet means that games can be played in a more friendly fashion and with less real potential of any financial risk.

This also allows for a different environment of play – in that tables can vary immensely graphically, and chips can be found in much greater numbers, with massive variations in stakes available on different tables. Likewise, with Poker Mob, a gangster style theme has been incorporated. These changes in game design and visual style really add to the excitement and can put us in another place for many entertaining hours.

Of course, poker games don’t stop with social media. Party Poker and Virgin Poker are among some of the biggest real gambling games on the web, with many of their own variations on play to be found, from standard deals to Texas Hold ‘Em. All mainstream sites feature their own poker games, including 888Poker and Sky, Betfair and PaddyPower – the list is endless.

Solitaire

While sometimes referred to as Patience in England, solitaire, like poker, has exploded in popularity all across the web. Once remembered as a fixture of the Windows operating system, it can now be found in millions of different playable formats, on every different platform.

Facebook incarnations are also rife. Games like Spider Solitaire allows for players’ to experience one of their favourite games in a fast and beautiful environment. The rules are often altered in order to allow competitive play against other social media users. It is this style of play that makes the game ever more popular.

And, like poker, solitaire games are not limited to Facebook. Just like other mainstream gambling games, solitaire can be found everywhere, with easy and hard options. If you want to gamble hard, and play your best game, then you can rest assured the game will be popular on many websites, as listed on poker.

Other Games

Online card games are everywhere. You don’t have to settle for a Facebook incarnation, or a serious gambling site – there are free card games available to play against online users or artificial intelligent opponents everywhere.

Hearts, rummy, spades and, of course, blackjack are all popular games that can be found on many different sites.

The important question is – what game suits you and how do you intend to play it?

If you fancy the challenge against like-mined friends and opponents on social media, then you’ll find a game that suits you in no time. If, on the other hand, you like a serious gamble, then mainstream gambling sites are highly likely to have a card game you are more than familiar with. And, of course, you may just want a play, to test that old knowledge – free sites and apps have the card game for you.

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Most people that hop onto a Windows computer and enjoy a game of solitaire now and again have no clue that they’re really playing Klondike solitaire. There are actually many different variations of the card game, and it’s not until you take the time to become familiar with some of the other types, that you realize you were playing a type at all. That game you love to play isn’t just Solitaire, but actually Klondike Solitaire, and it’s one of many variations. The other variations are setup differently and offer similar, yet different, experiences for players.

Pyramid Solitaire

If you’re in a hurry to get in a game of solitaire, and you aren’t confident that you’ll have time for a full Klondike hand, Pyramid Solitaire is the perfect game for you. It’s also known as 13 or Pile of 28 and is very simple to play through. A 7-high pyramid of cards is dealt out with only the bottom of the pyramid available to start. As you play the game you flip over cards in the remainder of the deck, and if the flipped card adds up to 13 with one of the exposed pyramid cards, both can be discarded. If you don’t use a deck card you simply place the next deck card on top and can only use lower cards as higher deck cards are removed. The game is over when all the pyramid cards are gone, or you’re out of deck cards.

Golf Solitaire

In Golf Solitaire the object of the game is to get rid of all the cards. The reason it’s often known as Golf Solitaire is because the lower your score the better. To play deal seven rows of five cards, all face up and each row overlapping the previous row. Then place the rest of the cards face down in the draw pile. Now draw a single card and start the game. You can lay down any open card from the bottom row as long as it’s one higher or lower than the current card in the discard. Your final score is the total number of cards left in the rows.

Our Favorite: Spider Solitaire

The card game Spider Solitaire was popularized by Windows and is now offered on most Windows machines. It’s similar to Klondike Solitaire, but with some differences. The object is to get a full run from K down to A twice in each of the four different suits. You can move cards onto other cards valued one higher, and suit doesn’t matter unlike in Klondike. The game is fun to play, but often takes longer than Klondike to complete so make sure that you have plenty of time to get through it.

There are literally dozens of different variations of Solitaire available today, but these popular options are the most common that you’ll notice people playing. Each is a good option for stress relief, or to burn a little extra time that you have. Try out a few and decide which one you like the best.

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Solitaire can be as simple or as complicated as you make it out to be. But if you want a relaxing experience it’s best to know some basic rules and to stick with them more or less the entire time that you play the game. Here’s an overview of the basic solitaire rules that will improve your chances of success, while helping the game to remain simple and easy to play, not advanced tactics are here, but enough to get you started properly.

Highest to Lowest and Opposite Suits

The only two rules you really need to understand to be able to play most of the way through a game of solitaire is that you put the low cards under the high ones, and that the cards have to change from red to black and back again as you stack them down the board, (also known as the tableau). When you understand these two rules, you can easily manipulate your cards around to where you need them, and create situations where you can potentially win the game.

Take from the Biggest Piles

Whenever you can, remove cards from the biggest pile and spread them out throughout your board. This is the section that holds most of your additional cards and it’s the one that you want to work on breaking down. When you have a few different options to pick from, it’s often good to pick the large pile first.

Use Your Board Cards First

With every move that you make you can either move around cards on the playing board, or you can take cards out of your draw pile and put them out onto the board. It’s always best to use the board cards when it’s possible to do so. This is how you set up the game for you to be successful, and it’s what you’ll have to do to begin moving cards up to the Ace piles and getting toward the finish of the game itself.

Ace Piles Come Last

While your ultimate goal is to get all your cards in the Ace piles that you form up top, other than the ace cards and the 2’s themselves you shouldn’t toss a bunch of additional cards up top. Putting too many of your cards at the top will limit your moves and your ability to get cards around the board so that you can open up the ones you need. It’s better to wait as long as you can, and only to move cards up top when you notice a major benefit to doing so.

If you follow each of these solitaire rules you should come to see solitaire as a simple game that’s enjoyable to play. There are more advanced tactics and a whole bunch of situational rules as well, but most of these only serve to complicate a game that can be very relaxing and straightforward when played properly.

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If you’ve got a deck of cards nearby it’s astounding how many different game variations that you can play and enjoy. While many of these games are best played with other people (poker) others are very enjoyable all on your own. Take a look through this list, and maybe next time you’re bored and looking for something to do you can rely on one of these games.

Poker

Most people have heard of poker and many enjoy playing this wildly popular card game. It’s one of the few games that’s featured on sports television stations and frequently televised around the world. This game focuses on card combinations, such as straight runs, two or three-of-a-kind to beat out other players. There is luck involved, but players must bet, call and raise hands to really determine the final outcome of the game. There are dozens of different poker variations played, but Texas Hold’em is the most popular by far.

Rummy

Rummy is a game of sets. You must try to build up three or four cards of the same value, or in ascending or descending order. This game is always played with multiple people and score is kept carefully as the game progresses. Players strive to build points by laying down sets of cards, and usually play through many hands of cards before finishing the game.

Solitaire

There are dozens of different solitaire variations as well, and this popular solo game since the 1700’s. Klondike is one of the most popular variations of this game, but both Spider and FreeCell Solitaire are also widely played on computers and with physical decks of cards. While there are multiplayer variations of Solitaire, it’s known best for being a solo game, and is loved for that very reason.

Contract Bridge

Contract Bridge is one of the best organized and most widely recognized card games in the United States and in other areas of the world. It’s been around since the early 1900’s, and is played with a standard 52 deck of cards. This team-based game is played with two teams of two typically, and gives the teammates a cooperative goal to strive for, which is taking so many of the cards laid out between all players. The game takes some time to learn, but is very strategic and highly enjoyable.

Blackjack

Blackjack, also known as 21 is a popular casino game around the world. The game is played with at least one player and one dealer. The object of it is for the player to get closer to 21 than the dealer does without going over that value. Two cards are dealt to both player and dealer and the player can ask for additional cards one at a time. Face cards are valued as 10, Aces are valued at either 1 or 11 and 10 and lower are valued their number amount. In Blackjack, players place bets on the outcome of the hand and whether they or the dealer is going to win.

Each of these card games can be highly enjoyable when you understand the rules. Most require other players to enjoy, but it’s easy to play a game of solitaire all on your own when nobody is around for something else.

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Those who have been using Windows games for more than the past few years are probably well-acquainted with at least one of the three major games that came on the older machines. Solitaire, minesweeper and hearts are all popular games that could be found on Windows systems for years upon years. What’s interesting about those games is that Microsoft never put them on there as a form of entertainment, they were each teaching aids of one type.

Master Mouse Skills

Both Minesweeper and Solitaire were included on the very early Windows machines as a way to teach mouse skills. Minesweeper demands precise clicking, and forces the user to both right and left click. By playing the game over an extended period users can become familiar with how the mouse works, and more comfortable manipulating computer objects. Solitaire was introduced for the very same reasons. You have to be able to manipulate the cards on the computer screen as you play these games. If you want to be successful with the game you will have to at least understand how to move a mouse cursor around and click, two vital skills to using a computer successfully for most common tasks

Teach Digital Communication

When digital communication was becoming more popular and the Internet was beginning to gain in use amongst computer owners Hearts was released. This game allowed players to talk back and forth to one another while they played the game. It was this feature of the game that was the important one to Windows developers, and why the game was included on computers to begin with. As users played through the games, they slowly got used to digital communication and how easy it is to talk back and forth over a computer, rather than a telephone.

Angry Fans

Now that you know that Windows never introduced those early games as real forms of entertainment, but more as teaching aids, it makes more sense that the software company tried to phase out the games over time. They had difficulty doing so because of fan outrage each and every time that they tried to. That’s why the games have remained on computers for so many years. It shows that there are plenty of dedicated fans to the games, and why shouldn’t there be. The games are simple to play, relaxing and quite enjoyable all at the same time.

While the Windows games have been removed from the most modern Windows machines as standard software that comes with the systems, they can still be added on easily through the accompanying app store. It’s likely that there will be fans of the games for decades to come, and that they will continue to be offered for just as long. The next time that you play one of these games, think about how they were some of the most clever teaching aids released in the past few decades.

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In an age when most people own mobile devices, and computers are in most households, it shouldn’t be surprising that more people are playing mobile solitaire on these devices than they are using real physical cards, especially for games like solitaire that require a lot of setup. It’s just easier to press the button and instantly start playing the game, rather than laying out all the cards on a table. There are mobile versions of most types of solitaire today, and playing one is simple and easy to do, offering a bunch of advantages over playing with physical cards.

Bring Games with You Anywhere

While you could easily carry a set of playing cards with you and pull them out whenever you’re a bit bored, it’s not so easy to find a place to lay them all out to begin playing. Imagine trying to do this in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. Unless you carry around a small fold-out table as well, you really wouldn’t have to many good spots to set up a full game of cards when the mood strikes you. It’s much more convenient to be able to pull out a smartphone or tablet and start playing a game right on the screen. It takes up less space, and leaves you with just as satisfying of an experience.

Rules are Taken Care of for You

When you play on a mobile device it’s much the same as playing on a computer. The program understands all the rules and ensures that you stick with them. Not only does this make it easy to learn a new variation of the card game, but it also helps keep you honest as you play. When you play with cards you could cheat whenever you want to. When you play on a device you’re stuck playing by the rules throughout the entire game.

Pick up Where You Left off

One of the biggest perks of enjoying a game of solitaire on your mobile device is that you can save your position in the game and continue to go back to it time after time. Most versions of solitaire take 15 or more minutes to complete, and both Klondike and FreeCell can take over an hour on some of the more challenging games. With that type of time commitment it’s nice being able to go back and play a little bit at a time anywhere that you are. More games can be finished in this way, and there’s no need to sit down and play a challenging game from start to finish, which makes walking away from it for a few minutes a bit easier.

Tablets Work Best

While you can easily play mobile solitaire on your phone, there are so many different cards to watch over and to look through while playing a solitaire game, that it makes more sense to play on a tablet device. Tablets offer more screen real-estate, and offer more life-like card sizes to work with. They’re ideal for players that have difficulty reading smaller text. The larger screen size makes playing with bigger cards possible, but also makes it easy to scan all the available cards and look for the right move to make. There is a variety of tablet apps that can be used to experience most of the common solitaire variations.
Now that you know all the benefits of playing solitaire on a mobile device you can take out that mobile device and look to see what options are available to you. You’ll be surprised by all the different apps that have been released.

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Solitaire is one of those card games that most people are familiar with, but only some play. All the people who aren’t playing one of the different variations of the game are missing out on an excellent opportunity to build problem-solving capabilities and to potentially become more successful in life. The game teaches a lot of important skills that can be applied to other problems in life as well.

Learn to Problem Solve Carefully

Some life decisions require you to act quickly and hope for the best; that said, many don’t. Usually, you’ll have plenty of time to consider your options and to decide on the very best choice of all. The same thing goes in Klondike Solitaire, and playing the game can help you train for those important moments in life. In the game you will occasionally lose because the deal isn’t a good one, but many times you’ll get stopped up because you overlook a potential solution, or you rush and move a card that causes you trouble. Those that play solitaire regularly will learn to value their possible decisions more, and to carefully examine the situation fully. It’s similar to a game of chess where your movements count for a lot. Later in life when you’re picking out a college to go to, a career to pursue or a place to position your family’s swimming pool, you’ll go back to those life lessons from Solitaire and think the situation over carefully before blazing ahead with the decision.

Learn to Weigh Pros and Cons

As you play Klondike Solitaire you’ll quickly realize that just because you can move a card doesn’t mean that you should move that card. There are going to be times when you have several movements available to you. It’s up to you to consider each of those options and then decide which one is the best to help you come closer to winning the game. This is a powerful problem solving skill that can be used in other real-life situations as well. When you understand that it’s important to investigate multiple potential courses of action, it helps you become a more effective problem solver overall.

Sometimes Things Don’t Work Out

While playing games like Klondike, you’ll quickly realize that the best strategy in the world isn’t going to win you the game. That’s because some games simply aren’t winnable. The same is true in other areas of life as well. It’s important to give every activity your full effort, but it’s also important to realize that you can’t win everything, no matter how excellently you perform. There are going to be times when you’re left to deal with a loss, and Klondike Solitaire prepares you for those instances better than many other games.

Practice Pays Off

Another important lesson that you can glean from playing several games of solitaire, FreeCell solitaire in particular, is that regularly practicing will help you improve. The first time you play FreeCell you’ll likely fail miserably, even if you understand the rules and the object of the game. You haven’t developed your skills enough yet. Play a few more games and you start to feel comfortable with the game, but you still aren’t winning on a consistent basis. Now fast forward to your 50th game, you know the strategies, you’re comfortable with selecting movements that will help you and you win games regularly. You’re a confident player and it came from diligent practice. The confidence you gain from succeeding at FreeCell solitaire can be carried over into other challenging aspects of your life where you have to improve to succeed.
Solitaire isn’t just a fun activity that you do when you’re burning time, it’s an excellent activity to cultivate problem solving skills with. It will build up a player’s confidence and give them the tools necessary to solve other difficult problems in life.

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