solitair that doesnt involve cards, i hear you saying how is this possible. The only thing this game has in comon with the card game is that it takes a lot of thinking and patience. There are a lot of different prices for this game, you can pick them up for a £1 in most £1 stores made of plastic but mine i got from the avon catalogue, it is a metal base with 33 little half circle grooves cut out in the shape of a + sign. You have 32 little balls or counters depending on the quality of the game you have brought, mine are little grey marbles, with these you put them in the little cut our groves leaving the middle one empty. All ...  Read the complete review

When I was a little girl (many, many years ago!) my parents would often play games with me and I am happy to say that they gave me a lot of their time and attention which is something that I think is missing from a lot of today's families, but that's another review for another day! One game that my dad taught me to play on my own was something called solitaire. He bought me a travel version of the game in a red and white plastic container which used little white pegs instead of the more traditional glass balls - I think that I still have it somewhere! A few years ago mom and dad bought Dave a lovely wooden version complete with glass balls and the ...  Read the complete review

In a world that only exists in myriad circuit boards and transistors it's sometimes nice to have a tactile object that you can own and hold. It's a forgotten feeling (for me anyway) to actually interact with physical objects rather than their computer generated counterparts. In a rare turn around I received a downgrade when I found this old solitaire board in a cobwebby corner of my garage. While some of us are more familiar with the PC desktop game of the same name, the real world version is in fact very diferent. You play not with a deck of virtual cards but with a number of counters inserted in a cross shape of dips in a small wooden board, a single dip is ...  Read the complete review

I have always loved playing board games and i think real life interaction playing these is far better than the so called interaction you get through computer games, whether you play against a computer or real people. When i was younger, i would nag and nag my family to play board games with me. My dad showed me this game in order to get some peace and quiet and it really did keep me quiet for hours! This game can be as simple or as difficult as you want it to be, so it is suitable for a variety of ages. There are 32 pegs placed onto a board that is shaped in a cross. The pegs go into little holes so they are easily moveable (in fact that's that object of the ...  Read the complete review

My first run in with Solitaire was around my Aunties house at a very young age, it took me a while to grasp the concept of the game but after a while I was pulling off some pretty good performances. The game is actually very easy to understand, you play on a circular (usually wooden) board that has 33 dimples shaped in a cross formation and a circular dimple cut all the way round its outside edge. At the beginning of each game you have a small marble sized ball in each dimple except the middle one (32 balls in total). To complete the game you have to end up with just one ball left in the middle dimple that was originally empty. To remove a ball you must jump over it with  Read the complete review