“Microsoft Solitaire” was originally intended to teach new computer owners how to work a mouse. (Museum of Play Photo) “Microsoft Solitaire,” a computer game played by more than 500 million people ...

Jimison and Pavel added a monitoring program to a solitaire-like computer card game called FreeCell. The researchers studied nine older adults (average age: 80 years) who had used computers before and ...

The city worker fired for playing solitaire on his office computer wasn’t dealt a bad hand, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday “I don’t think it was an overreaction at all,” the mayor said in the wake of ...

Microsoft's iconic Solitaire computer game is today celebrating its 30th birthday. The iconic card game was first digitised as part of Windows 3.0, which was released on May 22, 1990. According to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

If you haven't played Solitaire on a computer, you haven't lived. Remember IT class? You were meant to be making spreadsheets, but were instead wondering whether to move the eight of clubs or not? So ...

This was about the fourth first-person essay I’d read on the dangers of playing solitaire on the computer instead of doing what you are supposed to be doing. All of these pieces were confessions by ...

When I started doing this column again, one of the things I was encouraged to do was to look at life as a retired person, the retirement scene, so to speak. Unfortunately, the only scene I have to ...

"You don't win that often, but you have these incremental victories." So says Josh Levin, author of a Slate article on the bizarrely addicting computer game Solitaire. On today's show, Levin talks ...