King of Solitaire
Solitaire King is a single player card game comprising thirty-one different
games and over eighty variations thereof.
The full product consists of the following games: Aces Up, Accordion, Auld
Lang Syne, Beleaguered Castle, Busy Aces, Calculation, Canfield, Clock
Solitaire, Famous Fifty, Gaps, Golf Solitaire, Grandfather’s Patience, Help
your Neighbor, King Albert, Kitty in the Corner, Klondike, Maria Louisa, Maze,
Monte Carlo, Poker Solitaire, Pyramid, Royal Marriage, Shamrocks, Sly Fox,
Spider, St. Helena (Forty Thieves), Sultan, Take Eleven, Triplets, Trusty
Twelves, and Yukon.
It was customary to for developers to advertise their products by publishing a
limited or crippled version of it to attract potential buyers. With Solitaire
King the developers released some of the titles as freestanding freeware
games. This in itself is not unusual, what is unusual is that they released so
many. Thirteen freeware games were identified when this submission was first
made and many more have been found since, according to this source, as many as
twenty-four of the games were released in this manner.