Curious about these others, though? Here’s a brief description of how they work, from MSN.com:

Spider: Eight columns of cards await your attempts to clear them with the fewest moves possible.
Freecell: Use four extra cells to move cards around as you try to clear all cards from the table.
Pyramid: Pair two cards that add up to 13 in order to remove them from the board.
TriPeaks: Select cards in a sequence, either up or down, to earn points and clear the board.

Let’s just go for the classic game of Klondike, however. To do that, click on the appropriate icon. You’ll immediately learn that the game’s gotten a lot smarter, because now you have choices of the kind of deck you play against:

This is a great chance to decide if you want to really simulate a physical deck of cards, appropriately shuffled, or whether you want to, well, stack the deck in your favor. If the former (which is what I always choose), click “Play Random”. If you’d like to know you have a reasonable chance of winning, choose “Play Solvable”. It’s okay, no-one will know. ?

Notice on the very top you can also change from a draw-3 style to draw-1 as a variation. Again, changes in the rules of the game typically increase your chance of winning.

Once you’ve got things set up, you’ll jump right into the game, which looks pretty much as it’s always looked:

Now you can click and drag cards or stacks of cards around to your heart’s desire, trying to solve the patience game. Remember, alternating colors, and columns always cound downward. Notice also the Menu button on the top left.

Along the top you can see the game scores you on moves and keeps track of time spent. Don’t like that? You can mask those (or just ignore them). Lots of people prefer not to be timed, and that’s understandable!

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Before we’re done here, do click on Menu to see what slides out of the side. It’s pretty cool:

As you can see, there are a ton of ways you can tweak and tune the settings ot meet your needs or wants. Bigger cards, no music, different types of scoring, even switch games or try the Daily Challenge!

Now, I hope that gets you set up and happy with the new Microsoft Solitaire Collection in Windows 10. Good luck!

Spider Solitaire In Windows 10

Pro Tip: While you’re here, please do check out all the other Windows help we have. It’s quite extensive!

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