What to choose a regular solitaire or a fascinating card puzzle "Solitaire"?

Choosing between the usual board game and solitaire, most of the female sex will stop at the latter. There are also men who also like them. To play solitaire means to spend time with benefit.

These puzzles are designed for one person. This card entertainment does not originate in France, although the word "solitaire" from the French means "patience". The player must follow the rules of the cards, reaching the final goal. The player's intelligence is of great importance, but the layout is often related to chance, so solitaire is not infrequently used for fortune-telling.

There is an opinion that solitaire games originated in Scandinavia or Germany. But more often priority is given to Sweden. It was first talked about in the eighteenth century. The Germans called the game with the French word "patient". So it was mentioned in an anthology of games, which was published in 1783. David Parlett, who is an English historian and researcher of board games, states that originally the puzzle was played by two people, each player had his own deck.

To date, hundreds of such entertainments have been created. There are simple combinations that can be put together in a few minutes, they usually always add up. There are complex ones that take more than an hour to solve, never getting a positive outcome. The essence of solitaire also differs from one another. Playing the game means showing patience and combinatorial ability, as well as perseverance, while you can not always come to the right solution.

In 1826 a book was first published in Russian, which contained descriptions of all the famous puzzles at the time. It was called "Collection of card layouts". The book was dedicated to business people to explain the rules of Grand Solitaire.

Originally, cards carried a certain mystery. They were intended for aristocrats, as a great way to exquisitely relax, as well as for ordinary people to plunge into the excitement.
How did cards appear, no one knows. No less a mystery bears the history of the appearance of puzzles. The quality of "patience", which is one of the seven Christian virtues - is the main requirement for entertainment. After all, it is simply impossible to solve tangled puzzles without this personality trait.

People enjoy playing cards. And scientists with no less joy are looking for an answer to the main card question: how did solitaire appear. Although there are many hypotheses, one true one has never been found.

Ross and Haley believe that the game originated in Sweden. In their opinion, it also originated in Germany, where it was first described in a pamphlet dating back to 1783.

Parlett D., a British researcher who is a regular of games, does not believe that solitaire was created for one man. In his opinion, people were entertained in pairs when each player had his own deck. There are even thoughts that the puzzle had its origins in China.

To solve the mystery of the appearance of card solitaire so far no one has been able to. Around the world, the best minds and researchers of board games devoted hundreds of hours to this issue, but so far have not achieved any satisfactory answers. Since the names of games do not always reflect the place of their origin, to find the country where they first started talking about solitaire is very difficult.

The puzzle arrived to the Russian people, most likely from France, as evidenced by the name, which has French roots, which has taken root in Russia. The fun appeared in our country after the victory in 1812, when the war was over. It helped to have fun, developed excitement, and promoted divination rituals.

After the war with France, though, when Napoleon Bonaparte left Moscow and went home like a beaten dog, nothing of the French remained in Russia. Nothing at first took root in the Russian soul from the foreign invaders. But later things changed. A few years after the war, governesses and tutors appeared in Russia, teachers teaching art and fencing. It was these Frenchmen who passed on to the Russians the skill of entertaining themselves with solitaire. Now the caretakers, housemates, and their acquaintances were involved in this new entertainment.

Although France itself did not plunge headlong into such puzzles, Russia was completely absorbed by it. Now, beginning in the eighteenth century, the country was conquered by the game. After the invasion of Russia by the Poles and Swedes the names of solitaire remained, we are talking about "Krakow", "Polish", "Swiss".

At the end of the last century, when computers appeared, puzzles won the favor of most Russian people. And this despite the fact that many of them had never laid out real cards, but did it for the first time on a computer in the workplace.

The most common game is "Solitaire". It was invented in 1988 by Wes Cherry, who thus filled empty time when employees at his service were bored. But for the most part, the puzzles that were sewn into the operating system of computers, such as "Solitaire", were designed to learn how to use the operating system.

Today, even a child knows about solitaire, let alone adults. It is not necessary to download the game to your computer or smartphone, you can even play it online. If the Internet is available, you just need to go to our section of solitaire card games.

According to the legend, the entertainment originated during the reign of King Charles the Fourth of France. It is also believed that a famous French mathematician named Pelisson created such a puzzle especially for Louis the Fourteenth. Another thought is that the rich men of the Bastille invented the game.

Solitaire card games became the fashion under Napoleon. The nobility, out of boredom for fun and fortune-telling, invented various combinations, giving each new one its distinctive name. For example, Mary Stuart, who was the Queen of Scots, the night before her death, played a solitaire game, later named after her. She riddled that if the game, which never had a solution, came together, then she would be executed. By morning, the puzzle was solved, and the queen was beheaded.

Popularity in Russia, as well as around the world, where you can sit down for a computer operating system Windows, the entertainment gained in the late twentieth century. We are talking about the following games:

• Cosine;
• Solitaire;
• Spider.

Also, great popularity received:

• Rug;
• Pyramid;
• Mahjong.

All of these are easy to download from the Internet to your tablet or phone to keep you busy on your way home or to work or on your lunch break.

Most tend to believe that all the same beginning Solitaire took in ancient China. And already from there the game has moved to other countries around the world. She won popularity and became a favorite of people, no matter where they live. Although in some countries, cards were considered a devilish pastime, because they caused people to argue, lose fortunes, even die at their own hands, as for Solitaire, this puzzle game was a harmless game that develops patience and possession of the spirit.

Often solitaire was used for divination. For this purpose, before playing a puzzle player puzzled himself that will be at each outcome. This is how a person's future was determined.

As today the number of solitaire games continues to grow, it is worth noting that they differ from one another in complexity. The game can be played for a few minutes, and there are those for which the solution takes up to several days, and the victory still does not come.

The most famous solitaire games today can be found on the computer, where the operating system with embedded games is installed. We are talking about:

• Accordion;
• Bavarian puzzle;
• Tower;
• Gallery;
• Harp;
• Banner;
• Scythe;
• Fan;
• Fortress;
• Spider.

In general, there are hundreds of such games.

It has already become clear that the modern puzzle is collected by one person. The player's task is to lay out the cards in such a way that they can then be assembled according to the rules. The goal is to win by putting the puzzle together. It can be achieved in different ways, and there are rules that complicate or simplify the game. Often beginners are lucky, as the solitaire will come together or not, often depends on chance, although, of course, intellectual ability, the ability to calculate moves in advance, no one cancels.

In a simple game to fold a puzzle is easy, and it can do almost anyone. As for the complex options, it requires a lot of attention. Because for a successful solution requires a good memory, the ability to remember what cards where there were and should be, as well as to calculate the moves in advance. It is believed that each solitaire has its own mystery, even mysticism, for this reason, with their help fortune-tellers.

As computer technology advances rapidly, so does the entertainment with it. We are talking about solitaires, which can be both simple and complex. If the first to gather any, even unprepared user, the latter can only force masters who do not just rely on luck, but calculate their actions for many moves in advance. It requires great patience and care. For each puzzle there are rules and puzzles.

Usually two decks of cards are used. The main rule for all descending or descending solitaire games is to place the lowest card on top of the highest card or, for the second option, the highest card on top of the lowest.
The pile of cards, it's also referred to as a collection or place, located next to the field where the solitaire is folded, is not used at first. From it you need to remove one card at a time, which is called a transfer.
Store, or as it is also called, reserve or spare cards, they are opened during the folding. They are put aside, the order of arrangement is due to chance. Depending on the rules of the puzzle, there may be a different number of cards in the reserve.

When they are face down, the store is considered to be fully open, but when face up, then it is closed and only the first card is visible.
What is the most popular puzzle game? The answer is obvious, it is one of the solitaire games. All of them can be downloaded from the "Card Games Online" website. In "Live Games" you will find a great variety of card entertainment. To do this, it is worth opening such pages as:

• Online poker;
• Online casinos;
• Gaming portals.

On puzzles you can also earn, for this purpose it is necessary to open "Entertainment with earnings" and "Betting on sports".

It is necessary to collect stacks of cards by seniority, which should be placed in the designated places at the top of the page. In the empty space first you need to place the highest card - an ace, then the same suit starting with a deuce the rest.

Also on the field is a cell for each stack. Here cards of the lower type, but of a different color, are placed. You can move the tail located on the desired card. If there is an empty cell on the field, then the highest card after the ace is placed there, we are talking about the king.
The rules say that it is possible to look through the deck in reserve any number of times. If you click twice on an open deck, it becomes closed again, and you can look at the cards again.

If you click twice on the cells, then the open and matching cards go to the bases, to where the aces were originally placed.

The game is played with a single deck. Her goal is to collect the cards so that in special cells, they lie in ascending order on the ace, and then comes a deuce and so on to the king. These spaces are also called houses. The cards can be moved from place to place, observing the rule - the lower card must lie on the higher card of a different color.

Cards are dealt from the deck lying in the upper left corner. This can be done one at a time or for a more complicated version of three. When all the cards are placed in the boxes, starting with an ace from a deuce to a king, the game is over.

In the classic "Solitaire" take a deck of 52 cards and lay out 28 pieces in seven columns, and the number of column depends on their number. There is one in the feather and seven in the seventh. They are closed, with only the top card lying shirt down. The rest of the deck lies in the upper left corner next to the cells, where you actually need to move all the cards, putting them in order from deuce to king, starting with the ace.

There is also an open "Solitaire", when all the cards are dealt, no part of the deck remains. The number of columns can vary, the same goes for the open cards in them. It all depends on the version. That said, the number of cards open does not always guarantee the fact that the solitaire will come together. More often than not, the open "Solitaire" does not add up.

Increasing the complexity of the puzzle, opening three cards from the deferred deck, you can make it harder to collect the solitaire. In this case, out of the three offered it will be possible to choose only the left first, if it has been used, then the second, and then the third is taken. You can't take the second or third card from the presented three at once.

According to psychologists, if you set reasonable limits for the puzzle, then the solitaire game will be beneficial. That's why the brain needs to be given this kind of exercise:

• It brings calming, relaxation, and reduces stress. To achieve these moments it is enough to play up to fifteen minutes a day;
• The puzzle loads the brain, which is beneficial at any age, especially for the elderly. With its help you can train your memory, stimulate the processes of intellectual work and analytical thinking. This is the so-called fitness for the brain, thanks to which it is always in good shape;
• The game helps the brain to stop thinking rationally, giving in to intuition. For example, if we consider solitaire as a way of divination, then you should first puzzle the answer to each outcome of the decision, which will help then make the right choice. After all, the game has a mystical nature. Although in fact the brain simply switches, finding a non-standard, even one might say, a paradoxical solution.

It is possible to allocate at least three reasons why experts recommend playing solitaire at work:

• In the West, such games are available in every workplace in companies. So there are no strict prohibitions on the game. Even everyone is encouraged to play solitaire at lunchtime. Such entertainment helps to relieve the body's tension and increase the desire to work;
• Three years ago, Greek officials wanted to issue a law banning the game of solitaire as a form of gambling entertainment, but the application failed, as the higher authorities still noted the positive aspects of the puzzle, so the initiative was canceled;
• Puzzles, such as Spider, Solitaire and the like, embedded in the operating system Windows, intended in the beginning to quickly master the mouse and get acquainted with the graphical interface.

Finally, it is worth noting that the history of the appearance of solitaire is shrouded in obscurity. But such puzzles perfectly unload the brain, contributing to a pleasant pastime. Only you need to set yourself a limited time beforehand, so that the game does not start to take hours away from other important activities.