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When was the last time (if ever) you played Solitaire with real cards?
How often do you play Solitaire on the PC?
What Scoring system do you use?
High scores?
Quickest completion?
Draw one or draw three?
Strategies?
What deck do you use?

For me, the last time I played with real cards was probably more than a year ago.
I play it on the PC occasionally, maybe a few minutes per week.
I usually play Standard scoring but occasionally give Vegas a shot, on cumulative.
My highest score on Standard would probably be in the 13000 range but I don't pay attention to it that much. On Vegas cumulative I can build up a pretty decent profit over time (in the thousands easily).
I haven't noted my all-time fastest completion but I've done 58 seconds recently. It's a shame they haven't added a high score board like they did for Minesweeper.
I usually play on Draw one, I don't like three card much.
I don't have any real strategy, the closest I get is that if I have a choice of which stack to move I move the one with the most cards still underneath.
I use the blue deck (second from the left on the top row in XP).
 
I last played with real cards about 2 hours ago, while I was supposed to be watching yet another crappy government DVD about job searching (I have seen the thing about 6 times now).

I playy on the PC very occasionally, and only when I am avoiding doing something.

I don't take any notice of the score, only the time.
 
I played with real cards last night funnily enough, but I don't normally. My record on the PC is 31 seconds.
 
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When was the last time (if ever) you played Solitaire with real cards?
How often do you play Solitaire on the PC?
What Scoring system do you use?
High scores?
Quickest completion?
Draw one or draw three?
Strategies?
What deck do you use?
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I played solitaire with real cards fairly recently, but I prefer playing poker (which, admittedly, is rather difficult on your tod) I used to play solitaire on the PC a bit, but got sick of it - only ever play draw three and on Vegas settings... (the one that costs $52 per game) - my strategy is never to make an unnecessary move of cards and to try to keep the ace stacks reasonably balanced i.e. don't let one suit get too far ahead of the others... I still usually do crap though
 
I have never actually played solitaire with a real deck, but I have played it on my PC. I used to play it frequently as a good "Time Waster" but there's never any time to play it anymore :(.
 
Last time I played solitare with real cards - Tuesday last week waiting for a flight from Crete back to England... which coincedentally couldn't have been much better timed seeing as if it had been a day later it probably would have been affected by the threat of terror attacks.

I rarely ever play solitare on a PC... aren't there just better things to do? *cough* GTP *cough*
 
Well, solitare's about the best thing to waste time on non-internet-enabled compys (usually school ones, heh), so I do play it on the PC every now and then.

Once when I was really bored after finals I played real-life solitaire, but I don't play it with cards much.

Because, y'know, the real-life version doesn't have that cool cards-bouncing-all-over-the-screen effect when you win :dopey: I'm easily amused.
 
amp88
When was the last time (if ever) you played Solitaire with real cards?
How often do you play Solitaire on the PC?
What Scoring system do you use?
High scores?
Quickest completion?
Draw one or draw three?
Strategies?
What deck do you use?
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Not for ages.
Every so often. Usually when I'm Terminal-Serviced onto a server and am waiting for it to finish doing something.
Vegas
Dunno
Dunno
Three
Try to win the game
Whatever the default is
 
FreeCell on Windows is the closest I've gotten to a solitaire. :D
 
When was the last time (if ever) you played Solitaire with real cards?
Infinity plus never ago (not that i know of). :)

How often do you play Solitaire on the PC?
Used to play it WAY too often, so uninstalled it a couple of months back.

What Scoring system do you use?
Hardest one,Vegas rules and three card deals every time.

High scores?
The highest you can get i think, score seemed to be the same each time i managed to finish a game.

Quickest completion?
Can't remember.

Draw one or draw three?
Three, makes it harder.

Strategies?
None that i know of.

What deck do you use?
No idea.
 

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