Microsoft’s most meditative software is 30 years old today and still extremely popular. We are talking about Solitaire, the pulse-lowering card-laying game that has been an integral part of the Windows operating system for decades since 2016 is a popular app for Android and iOS.
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His Microsoft debut was celebrated in 1990 with the release of Windows 3.0 in the Klondike version of the game, which was much older and was known under the collective name of Patience. “The game helped people learn to ‘drag and drop’ objects on their computer screens using a mouse – which was new at the time,” Microsoft wrote in one Blog post.
With Windows 8, Solitaire disappeared from the operating system in 2012 and then appeared in the Windows Store in the form of a standalone app with new game variants, Xbox Live integration and other extras – free of charge, but with integrated advertising, or ad-free for those times up to 9.89 euros.
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Solitaire is still played 100 million times a day
More than 35 million people in more than 200 countries still play the official Solitaire, now called the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, every month. Microsoft has played more than half a billion people in the past decade, according to Microsoft. It was in 2019 included in the Video Game Hall of Fame. There it is assumed that Solitaire was installed on a total of more than one billion devices.
To celebrate the milestone birthday, Microsoft wants to set a world record: the most completed solitaire games in one day. On average, Microsoft registers around 100 million games a day.
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If you want to be part of the record team, you simply have to play the Microsoft version, whether on your smartphone, PC or on this website. Usually much-criticized telemetry thanks to the company, every completed batch is recorded and counted.
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