When I was a kid, we had a game at our house that was a solitaire game. It came in a brown case that folded in half, and if I recall correctly (this is circa 1975-1980) you opened up the gameboard, dealt out your playing cards, and played a solitare type game. It was a plastic board that had slots in it to hold the cards in the positions you wanted them in.
My memory is really vague, but I really liked this game and the way it held the cards was super handy. I’ve been thinking of trying to find it for my mother in law, as I think she would enjoy it.
Anyone recall the exact name of this game and/or the company that made it?
We had something like this in the same time frame. There were 25 slots arranged in a 5x5 grid. Five cards were placed face-down, diagonally from upper left to lower right corner. Cards from the deck were turned up one at a time and put in an empty slot, the goal being to make the best possible poker hand in each row and each column. Any time you made a pair in a row or colmun you turned up one of the face-down cards.
Don’t know the name of it off the top of my head, other than calling it “Poker Solitaire.”
I don’t know why Lucy, but I still have my Solotaire board tucked away in a drawer next to my bed and still play it, it is an amazingly simple, yet fun exercise in probability.
I’ve always wanted someone to port it to the computer – but I’d still keep the old one with me.
Would you be so kind as to post the scoring list? I sometimes deal out a game of this sans board and would like to be able to figure out my actual score.
I’ll bump this to request the scoring also. It’s been so long since I’ve played that now I’ve forgotten how! I am so getting this game from E-bay. Excellent!