Addiction solitaire3/25/2023 ![]() ![]() A form of stress control or pain management. Dampening - trying to make the mind not think about something painful.The polish which adds all of the game-feel qualities. Excitement - all of the sounds and effects when you play well.It is always there for you even if you are someone who won’t admit that you enjoy it. You know you enjoyed it before, you know you’ll enjoy it again. You didn’t win a challenging variation this time, but maybe next time? Or the next… or the next! And then you win - oh, merry be, what sublime joy! That is the fun of randomness. The catharsis from failing over and over and then finally winning.As the goal’s end is clear, you race to the finish line. Playing toward a fulfillment, a resolution, a closure. The key qualities of what makes solitaire fun are: ![]() But inevitably they do play solitaire again! What compels us to play more solitaire? They’ll never install solitaire again, they say. One common complaint I’ve seen is from professionals who install a version of solitaire, and then lament this decision for all of the time they spent playing the cards. Often I will research social media for the keyword “solitaire” (as one does) and beyond the spam of rings and so on it is often entertaining to find what people say about the game. Not to mention the number of plays from various traditional versions of solitaire one is able to play on their lonesome with a real deck of cards. The Klondike and Spider variations especially have no doubt clocked in many hundreds of billions of deals globally since it was first digitized. Solitaire may be the most used software ever made. Why solitaire is so fun that we can’t stop playing. ![]()
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