>Actually, this solitaire can be played with real cards... which has several disadvantages (which, in turn, are the reason I wrote it in the first place): takes up too much room on the table, requires manual reshuffling of the cards between games, and can't be alt-tabbed away when the boss approaches.
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>My wife once said that the computers are extremely useful machines - without them, we'd waste so much time shuffling the cards.
I have played almost the same solitaire years ago - when I was a child - mainly with two differences: 1) Two decks of cards, giving more choices (and more space required! - better to this on the carpet). 2) Ascending order.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
