Microsoft® Windows® XP Unleashed

Playing Games

Windows includes a number of games, from the classic Solitaire that has been included with almost every version of Windows ever shipped to Internet versions of Checkers, Spades, and Backgammon that automatically find a player of your skill level and set up a game for you. Since there are numerous games included with Windows XP, each with its own rules and strategies, and because games are really outside the scope of this book, this section presents only a brief description of the games available. These include the following:

• FreeCell—A Solitaire game, in which you must move all cards to their home cells (stacks), using free cells as placeholders. To win, you must create a stack for each suit in its home cell, stacked in order of ...