Starting a game of Klondike directly next to someone is sending out the message “I don’t want to talk to you. Perhaps I am being unreasonable, but I still see it as a rude act. Within minutes someone will find you, just to hiss “Put the black 7 on the red 8!”īy the time I reached adolescence, I started to get a chip on my shoulder about people starting to play the game near me. I subscribed to the old theory that it was a safety device for travellers – if you ever get totally lost in the desert, pull out a pack of cards and start to play Klondike. Don’t play Klondike with anyone near you, or you will both get frustrated. Klondike, as I now call it – I can afford the ten dollar name now – is a solitaire game it is only made for one player, and it only works with one player. Either you won, or you lost – it was that simple. There were no stinkin’ points or pesky time-limits. You turned over three cards at a time, as often as you like until you got stuck. We didn’t play no fandangled casino version of the game, either. We didn’t even know it by the name by which it is now famous – “Microsoft Solitaire”. We couldn’t even afford to give a ten-dollar name, like “Klondike”, “Canfield” or “Fascination”. We only knew one single-player gard game. When I was a kid we couldn’t afford all of these fancy-pants solitaire games. If Casey can write about his relationship with Tetris, I can write about my relationship with Klondike
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