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Solitaire: History, Types & Overview

Solitaire, patience, or card solitaire refer to a genre of card games whose common feature is that the aim is to arrange the cards in some systematic order or, in a few cases, to pair them off in order to discard them. Most are intended for play by a single player, but there are varieties for two or more players.

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Solitaire topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Types and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Solitaire.

Related topics
54
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
60
Extracted relationships
111
Concept neighborhoods
26
Bridge connections
60

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 19 topics
History · 14 topics
Types · 10 topics
Genre names · 6 topics
Computer games · 4 topics
Card size and format · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Genre names

History

Card size and format

Types

Computer games

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Solitaire connects Entity context

The extracted context around Solitaire shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Solitaire → Abbé Bellecour's Academie, America, An, Before, Books, Britain, Charles Cotton's The Compleat, Danish, Das, France, French, Gamester, German, Jeux, Königliche L'Hombre-Spiel, More, Norwegian, Patience, Russia, Scandinavian Another extracted example is Solitaire → American, British Constitution, Clans, Constitution, Czarina Patience, Duchess, English, European, Gateway Solitaire, Grand Duchess, Hill, However, Luynes, Missing Link Solitaire, The, The Baroness Patience, The Beleaguered Castle, The Blind Patience, The Clock, The Gathering. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Solitaire

Top relations

related to history · 24
Solitaire → Abbé Bellecour's Academie, America, An, Before, Books, Britain, Charles Cotton's The Compleat, Danish, Das, France, French, Gamester, German, Jeux, Königliche L'Hombre-Spiel, More, Norwegian, Patience, Russia, Scandinavian
related to Individual game names · 23
Solitaire → American, British Constitution, Clans, Constitution, Czarina Patience, Duchess, English, European, Gateway Solitaire, Grand Duchess, Hill, However, Luynes, Missing Link Solitaire, The, The Baroness Patience, The Beleaguered Castle, The Blind Patience, The Clock, The Gathering
related to overview · 14
Solitaire → Ace, Building, Cards, If, In, King, Occasionally, Pairing, Solitaires, Some, The, There, They, Totalling
related to Competitive solitaires · 11
Solitaire → Competitive, Conjugal Patience, Examples, Malice, Pirate, Progressive Patience, Racing Demon, Russian Bank, Spit, Spite, The
related to External links · 9
Solitaire → Adelaide Cadogan, Archive, Encyclopædia Britannica, Historic Card Games, Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games, Mary Whitmore Jones, Parlett, Patience, Project GutenbergGames
related to Genre names · 9
Solitaire → Although, American, British, David Parlett, Firstly, North America, Patience, Secondly, The
related to Card size and format · 5
Solitaire → Even, However, Patience, The, They
related to Types · 5
Solitaire → By, Klondike, Napoleon, Solitaires, St HelenaBy
related to Computer games · 4
Solitaire → Klondike, Mahjong, Microsoft Solitaire, Windows
related to Open games · 4
Solitaire → Games, In, Likewise, Open

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

cards games game patience card two sequences solitaires building suit family may sequence player builders aim players open also played

Solitaire relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 111 structured relationships around Solitaire. Examples in this analysis include Solitaire → is a → computer variant notable for using mahjong tiles instead of playing cards and Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester → instance of → there were no literary mentions of such games in large game compendia. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Solitaireis acomputer variant notable for using mahjong tiles instead of playing cards0.90text
Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamesterinstance ofthere were no literary mentions of such games in large game compendia0.80text
Solitairerelated to Card size and formatThe0.60section
Solitairerelated to Card size and formatHowever0.60section
Solitairerelated to Card size and formatPatience0.60section
Solitairerelated to Card size and formatEven0.60section
Solitairerelated to Card size and formatThey0.60section
Solitairerelated to Competitive solitairesCompetitive0.60section
Solitairerelated to Competitive solitairesThe0.60section
Solitairerelated to Competitive solitairesExamples0.60section
Solitairerelated to Competitive solitairesConjugal Patience0.60section
Solitairerelated to Competitive solitairesPirate0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Solitaire bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Two, Sometimes and Visible. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • card games
    • Patience
    • Solitaire
    • American
    • Game
    • Sometimes
    • Games
    • Cards
    • Closed
    • Built
    • Names
    • Order
    • Open
  • foundation card
    • Patience
    • American
    • Sometimes
    • Games
    • Solitaire
    • Built
    • Names
    • Order
    • Playing
    • Earliest
    • Name
    • Also
  • base card
    • Patience
    • American
    • Sometimes
    • Games
    • Solitaire
    • Built
    • Names
    • Order
    • Playing
    • Earliest
    • Name
    • Also
  • dick's games of patience
    • Solitaire
    • Games
    • Patience
    • Card
    • Players
    • Game
    • American
    • Order
    • Cards
    • Two
    • Earliest
    • Sometimes
  • standard cards
    • Game
    • Games
    • Visible
    • Sequence
    • Pack
    • Foundations
    • Play
    • Played
    • Player
    • Discard
    • Layout
    • Order
  • card size and format
    • Patience
    • American
    • Sometimes
    • Games
    • Solitaire
    • Built
    • Names
    • Order
    • Playing
    • Earliest
    • Name
    • Also
  • computer games
    • Patience
    • Solitaire
    • Game
    • Cards
    • American
    • Closed
    • Open
    • Names
    • Order
    • Name
    • Building
    • Played
  • american
    • Names
    • Earliest
    • Sometimes
    • Card
    • Name
    • Patience
    • Games
    • Closed
    • Order
    • Half-open
    • Playing
    • Play

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Solitaire, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Solitaire with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
SolitaireOverview · splits 41 ⟂ 20
SolitaireHistory · splits 46 ⟂ 15
SolitaireTypes · splits 50 ⟂ 11
SolitaireGenre names · splits 54 ⟂ 7
SolitaireComputer games · splits 56 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Solitaire

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples111
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Solitaire to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Types & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Solitaire · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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