A common variant is Klondike, which is included with the Windows operating system under the title Solitaire.

As the Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire are in all likelihood part of the Indo-Australian radiation that produced the 3 small subfamilies mentioned above with the fruit doves and-pigeons ( including the Nicobar Pigeon ), they are here included as a subfamily Raphinae, pending better material evidence of their exact relationships.

These included the Dodo on Mauritius and the Solitaire on Rodrigues, both already extinct.

Other guests included The Captain and Tennille ; Natalie Cole ; Connie Francis ; recording legend and decades-long Sedaka friend and former manager Don Kirshner ; and new Solitaire " owner " Clay Aiken, among many others.

The most common software version of Spider is the one included in the Vista, ME and XP versions of Microsoft Windows, Spider Solitaire.

These games included Mowin ' Maniac ( a Pac-Man clone based on the " Mowin ' Man "/" Mowin ' Boris " modules ), Roof Rats ( similar to SameGame and variants ), " Solitaire " ( After Dark themed ), Toaster Run ( a 3D adventure game featuring several After Dark Characters, more notably the Flying Toaster ), Zapper ( a trivia game ), Hula Girl ( another 3D adventure game based on the " Hula Twins " module from After Dark 4. 0 ), two word scramble games — Bad Dog 911 ( based on the " Bad Dog " modules ) and Fish Shtix ( based on the " Fish " modules, mainly " Fish World "), Foggy Boxes ( a connect the boxes type game based on the " Messages 4. 0 " module ), MooShu tiles ( a Mahjong-like game featuring many After Dark characters throughout the years ), and Rodger Dodger.

Other systems have included pack-in games on a built-in chip, such as Solitaire for Game. com.

The songs Before I Die, Solitaire / Unraveling, Xeroxed and Born of Desire were later included on both the Eclipse Records and Universal Records versions of XX in 2001.

The album included versions of songs that would later be reworked for Malin's first two solo albums, including Solitaire, Basement Home, Brooklyn and Downliner.

When she learned that Sedaka was going to be a guest judge and that the finalists would be singing Sedaka's songs, she begged him to sing " Solitaire.

Solitaire games are designed to be played by one player.

Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people.

* Sorcerer's Solitaire by Walker Vaning

FreeCell Pro, the enhanced Windows-based Solitaire implementation by Adrian Ettlinger and Wilson Callan ( formerly freeware, later licensed under GPL ), first integrated Don Woods ' solver and later on used Fish's Freecell Solver and Holroyd's Patsolve.

Solitaire Chess is a chess puzzle produced by ThinkFun.

Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, where the protagonist receives a small book from a baker, in which the baker tells the story of a sailor who tells the story of another sailor, and Sophie's World about a girl who is actually a character in a book that is being read by Hilde, a girl in another dimension.

* Bowling Solitaire, a one-player game by Sid Sackson that simulates ten-pin bowling.

* Solitaire Dice, by Sid Sackson

Solitaire games also by their nature attempt to recreate fog of war using random dice rolls, card draws, or flowcharts to determine events, for example Ambush !.

His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire.

The Rodrigues Solitaire laid a single egg, that was incubated in turn by both sexes.

First mentioned during the 17th century, the Rodrigues Solitaire was described in detail by François Leguat ( leader of a group of French Huguenot refugees who were marooned on Rodrigues in 1691 – 1693 ).

Later study of skeletal features by Alfred and Edward Newton indicated that the Solitaire was morphologically intermediate between the Dodo and ordinary pigeons, but differed from them in its unique wrist-knob.

Others believed it was a species similar to the Rodrigues Solitaire, as it was referred to by the same name, or even that there were white species of both the Dodo and Solitaire on the island.

Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself.

*" Solitaire " ( Neil Sedaka song ) ( 1972 ), a song also covered by the Carpenters

*" Solitaire / Unraveling ", a 2001 song by Mushroomhead on XX

*" Solitaire ", a song by Deep Purple on The Battle Rages On ...

*" Solitaire ", a song by Kamelot on Ghost Opera

* French ship Solitaire ( 1774 ), a ship captured by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Solitaire

* Solitaire ( ballet ), a ballet by Kenneth MacMillan

* Solitaire ( film ), a 2008 film by Frank D ' Agostino

The Solitaire cryptographic algorithm was designed by Bruce Schneier " to allow field agents to communicate securely without having to rely on electronics or having to carry incriminating tools ", at the request of Neal Stephenson for use in his novel Cryptonomicon.

* Bruce Pandolfini Solitaire Chess

As well as the tortoises and the Dodo, thirteen additional species of birds became extinct among there were extincts Réunion Flightless Ibis, Broad-billed Parrot, Red Rail, Rodrigues Rail, Rodrigues Solitaire and the related dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ), in Mauritius, could swallow fruits from ocotea species, as several contemporary sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones.

Branigan is also remembered for the Top 10 " Solitaire " and for the number-one adult contemporary hit " How Am I Supposed to Live Without You ", as well as four other US Top 40 hits.

The release of the album led Mushroomhead to major national and international tours including Ozzfest 2002 ; as well as television exposure via their first music video " Solitaire / Unraveling ".

Laraine Newman had developed serious eating disorders as well as a heroin addiction – she spent so much time in her dressing room playing Solitaire that for Christmas 1979, Gilda gave her a deck of playing cards with a picture of Laraine on the face of the card.

Some other Artworx titles are Bridge 8. 0 and King of Solitaire, although these have not sold as well as the poker games.

In 1972, Sedaka embarked on a successful English tour and in June recorded the Solitaire album at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, working with the four future members of 10cc ( best known to American audiophiles for " I'm Not in Love " and " The Things We Do for Love ").

Its closest genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues Solitaire, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae of the family of pigeons and doves.

After dissecting the preserved head and foot of the specimen at the Oxford University Museum and comparing it with the few remains then available of the extinct Rodrigues Solitaire ( Pezophaps solitaria ) they found that the two were closely related.

For many years the Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire were placed in a family of their own, the Raphidae ( formerly Dididae ), because their exact relationships with other pigeons were unresolved.

Osteological and molecular data has since led to the dissolution of the family Raphidae, and the Dodo and Solitaire are now placed in their own subfamily, Raphinae, in the family Columbidae.

Comparison of mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA sequences isolated from a Dodo tarsal and a Rodrigues Solitaire femur confirmed their close relationship and their placement within the Columbidae.

* 14 species of birds on the Mascarene Islands, including the Dodo, the Rodrigues Solitaire, and the unrelated Réunion Solitaire.

A modified version of the game called " Thoughtful Solitaire ", in which the identity of all 52 cards is known, has a known solution strategy that works 82 % of the time but requires significant computing power.

In 1973, Seymour achieved international fame in her role as Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

Some of these solvers and others have been incorporated into larger FreeCell or Solitaire programs.

Osteology and DNA sequence analyses indicate that the Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire are better considered as a subfamily Raphinae in the Columbidae pending availability of further information.

An example of Solitaire Chess puzzle is shown at the right.

Puzzles and Solitaire are one-player games.

Other significant events include the Solitaire du Figaro, Mini Transat 6. 50, Tour de France a Voile and Route du Rhum transatlantic race.

* In the film Live and Let Die, the Tarot card representing Solitaire is the High Priestess.

The same pieces are used for other styled games such as Shanghai Solitaire.

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