You know Solitaire, right? Did you know it’s really the name for a family of over 100 different games? If you use Windows, maybe not. What Windows calls Solitaire is actually called Klondike.
* Anyway, how many people have tried PySol? (It’s a collection of pretty much every solitaire game in existence)
* How many have tried the Hex a Deck games in the Special category?
* How many have played Bits n Bytes?
OK, now that nobody has their hands up, let the fun begin. (Note, if you’re not a geek, you will probably get lost)
Hex a Deck games are games which use a special card deck that uses hexadecimal and binary on the cards as opposed to decimals. PySol supports two Hex-a-Deck games. Hex a Klon (A variant of Klondike) and Bits n Bytes.
I really can’t explain how to play it without copying the PySol help file so I’ll simply say that it involves sorting your cards based on their suit and least significant bit. Anyone who knows enough about computers to play it will find it immensely addictive.
PySol is written in Python and I have played it on Linux and Windows. It should work on any OS that supports Python with Tkinter. (I’m almost positive that includes MacOS X) There is also a special version called PySolitaire to make Windows use easier.
*Addendum:* Special Games –> Tarock Type –> Imperal Trumps is another fun special variant of Klondike. (Goes with the mention of Hex a Klon)
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