The Enigma of Solitaire

A lot of things have been said about Solitaire, a single-player card game developed by the elite in Northern Europe in the late 1700s to pass the time, a method of divination and fortune telling, a game of logic, luck, and patience, and finally a digital board game played by computer devices as well as through the Internet. What’s more, the game has an aura of mystery to it as its gameplay depends on the value and the kind of the cards that reveal themselves throughout the game. By dealing with the hand or cards that have been dealt, the player has to use skill of thought, awareness, luck, and attention to detail to outsmart the cards and clear the board.

Also, the game gives a feeling of Enigma when playing with real cards as the player is playing against no one but the cards themselves, and perhaps an invisible supernatural opponent. With digital versions, one can safely assume that the computer is the one playing against you, but regardless, the thrill and intrigue in having to deal with the random properties of the gameplay is more than enough to get players sitting for hours and sorting the enigmatic cards from random chaos to order.

The HTML5 Standard

With the game being ported to computers then the WWW, digital Solitaire rose the more in popularity and playability. Unlike the enigmatic physical playing cards, playing solitaire online is the ultimate in convenience for obvious reasons. No need for a game table for the cards, no need to carry a deck around with you, just switch on your computing device, go online, go to the Solitaire site, and play. To play again, just restart, no need to shift the physical cards and lay them out face down, and so on and so forth.

Digital Solitaire also offers game features not present or possible with a deck of real cards. You have “Undo” to immediately undo your mistakes and start again from there. You have “Hint Options” that point to the next best move, and you have “Solvable Deck” options where you won’t get stuck. Note however that as not to be accused of cheating and ruining the essence of the game, these helpful options are usually used as learning tools in the mastery of Solitaire.

What’s more is the variety of the game. With an online site or a digital Solitaire collection, one can peruse, engage in, and enjoy the different styles of Solitaire from the classic 1800s Klondike to the 1978 FreeCell. The variety of Solitaire games will keep a solo-playing card enthusiast gaming for hours on end.

In 2014. The WWW adapted the HTML5 standard. Web pages where ported to, and from thence, written in the HTML5 Web format, moving away from the then deteriorating HTML4. This enabled Web users to do things more efficiently and faster, like play videos, and run interactive games and web-based applications that now run directly inside the HTML code, without the need for extra downloads and plugins. This enhanced accessing websites making them more responsive, and safer from malicious loopholes that web hackers took advantage of.

Solitaire by HTML5

With everything facilitated through the HTML code, current-day WWW allows Solitaire and other Web-based games to load instantly on any platform connected to the Web, eliminating downloads or installations of any kind. It changed the world of Casual Gaming by providing developers with an open-source and powerful tool to build games that practically worked on any platform connected to the WWW.

The advantage of security and efficiency also made Solitaire far easier to access, notwithstanding quicker web load times as Solitaire isn’t that much of a graphics intensive game. The HTML5 provides cross-platform format as well, so whether it’s a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, or a desktop, as long as the Web is accessible, Solitaire will display and run on it.

HTML5 has certain advanced features compared to the prior version. A very useful one is “Local Storage” allowing the Web Browser to remember exactly where you left in the game that even if you close the window or refresh the page, the browser will remember it like a saved game. With HTML5 consuming minimal resources, and access to Solitaire and game performance optimized, all of these provide the perfect environment for Solitaire to thrive in the age of HTML5.