

Under the strictest rules, the odds of winning are around 1 in 50. When using the standard 52-card deck, Jacks are valued at 11, Queens at 12, and Kings at 13. The object of the game is to remove pairs of cards that add up to a total of 13, the equivalent of the highest valued card in the deck, from a pyramid arrangement of 28 cards. Pyramid is a patience or solitaire game of the Simple Addition family, where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation.

I advised the owners to use IE, and made sure that it contained their most important favourites in plain view on the Links bar.Īnd BTW, scanning with several antipestware apps revealed nothing.įrom all of that, I can only wonder whether this anomaly experienced by the OP with Solitaire on Win 7 is just another antic to get $$ out of more folks, and/or to get them to CHOOSE Win 10. When I created and saved desktop shortcuts from IE favourites, only THEN could I make Edge open. One game not in that pack was Tri-Peaks Solitaire, which I was able to get from the M$ 'store' for free - THIS time.Īnother side effect of that Win update was the orphaning of the Edge browser and deletion of its desktop and Start menu icons, and partial unregistering of the program, though IE11 was untouched and still worked. I also found a game pack which had been extracted from XP and was supposed to work on 10, installed it, and it did.

While web searching for wassup, I read that this may have been a deliberate action on the part of M$. Recently, I had to service a Win 10 laptop where 10 had crept in and replaced Win 7 last year, and best as I could tell, a recent update of Win 10 did some odd things, including deleting the files of all of the original Windows games, but leaving their empty folders. Word has been circulating that M$ wants users to PAY for the games which they used to include, at least for Win 10.

I think there is something else at play here.
