# Can I buy a solitaire engine to put on a website? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 18, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277 "2008-06-18T00:38:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277/1 "2008-06-18T00:38:27Z")
A friend of mine is building a website and he is think about having visitors be able to play solitaire when they visit his site. My thinking is that solitaire games have been around forever and he should be able to pay to use one that already exists. Ideally, he’s love to change the skin of it, but that’s optional. Any idea where one goes to find such a thing? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277/2 "2008-06-18T00:45:23Z")
There are loads of flash solitaire games - and the creators of many such games are perfectly happy to let others either link them or locally cache and embed them in their own sites (usually because they contain a hyperlink back to the author’s site). Not all are like that though, but here’s one that is: > **[Best Websites to Play Flash Games - Owens World](https://www.owensworld.com/flashgames/#flash-not-supported)** > > Flash games are online games that use Adobe Flash Player technology to run in a web browser. These games were … ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277/3 "2008-06-18T00:52:48Z")
Can I just ask, why? Solitaire is already on every PC and I guess I’m just stumped why anyone would want to put it on their website thinking visitors would want to play it… ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277/4 "2008-06-18T01:14:08Z")
[QUOTE=BrandonR] Can I just ask, why? Solitaire is already on every PC and I guess I’m just stumped why anyone would want to put it on their website thinking visitors would want to play it… [/QUOTE] Good question. Unfortunately, I’m not at liberty to answer it. The friend is primarily a client. But we’re well aware of the point you bring up. Suffice to say, it will make sense. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277/5 "2008-06-18T14:18:22Z")
I was thinking that this might do better in The Game Room. Can a Mod please move it? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277/6 "2008-06-18T14:24:38Z")
Done. Moved from General Questions to The Game Room. **Gfactor** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-buy-a-solitaire-engine-to-put-on-a-website/453277/7 "2008-06-18T18:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=Gfactor] Done. Moved from General Questions to The Game Room. **Gfactor** General Questions Moderator [/QUOTE] Thank you.