"Hey, Bob, did you play your hundred games yet?" "Oh, shit! I played one more! That counts as cheating on this weird world epidemic! What will we do?! We're screwed!" lol
Hey fella, I learned this game when I was like 6. My mom was a semi pro at solitaire. Since we couldn't afford a computer in the late 90's, she would hop in the cab to a friend's office who had this game on his computer and play as long as she could. I actually have a picture of her sitting in front of those old ass computer screens back in 1999 in reach as I type this in :D . Today she still finishes a game in less than 1 min. Having not less than 12k ish She said solitaire is pretty much like poker...the key is not to win every hand, but to analyse a potentially great game and to finish strong using a sharp mind that one must train over and over again. Love this review, thank you for posting it. -Decimus
I feel sorry for this man, Wes Cherry. Creating such an influential game and no credit. His name isn't even the first to come up when you look up the game!
#8: mathematicians and theorists actually struggle to calculate the probability to win a game of Solitaire. #7: apparently 79% of the games are theoretically winnable. Well, they don't have to struggle anymore, since gameranx knows the exact probability!
When i was a kid back in the 90's, Solitaire once crashed my computer during the winning card stream thing... And now i am forever fearful of it. True story.
"its not like you get trophies or achievements or theres leader boards or anything" on my windows phone the worst phone out there i can unlock achievements for Klondike and theres leader boards that are linked to my gamertag ._.
At school, they removed all traces of the windows games from the start menu and the desktop (but not the actual harddrive, for whatever reason) once, because shit did very decidedly not get done in computer class otherwise. Taught me a lot about the folder and/or file structure of Win XP, and about how to handle programming and playing Solitair at the same time, but I have to hand it to my teacher - hiding Solitaire was fairly effective for the five minutes that it lasted.
Number 3 is definitely true. I used to teach new computer users back in the late 90's at my game center and solitaire was the program I would tell them to go home and practice using a mouse on.
Wow. Gameranx, I gotta say, bravo. Very well researched and you made an amazingly informative video on solitaire. Flippin' solitaire. I liked this video a lot. Can't wait for the next video. Keep er' going with the amazing content. :]
Despite all the video games and board games I play all the time, Solitaire is still probably one of my most played games ever, especially if I include variants like Spider Solitaire or the Churchill Solitaire mobile app that Donald Rumsfeld produced (which is surprisingly fun!) So yeah, you won't see me making fun of this top 10 list, solitaire is great. :)
Lothar Meyer was developing the periodic table at the same time as Dmitri Mendeleev and created a scheme nearly identical to Dmitri's. The periodic table was constructed from similar chemical and physical properties in elements and in an order of atomic weight, also there were elements that hadn't been found yet but fit into the scheme as the scheme accounted for atomic weight and could accommodate this and it was even expected that these gaps existed in specific places. So saying solitaire had some influence is more anecdotal than anything else.
A relative once kicked me off the computer for "always playing pointless video games"...she then began playing Solitaire. I told her that Solitaire is technically a video game because it uses a video component and is, in essence, a game...she then kicked me out of the house.
That last comparison does make sense if you think about it. How many internet browsers do most people use mainly? Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. How many Windows solitaire versions to people play? Windows solitaire. (not including copies or clones) Side question, who remembers Netscape Navigator?
I heard somewhere that if you shuffled a deck of cards once every 3 seconds, took a step forward once every million years, and take a teaspoon out of the ocean with every step, you'd drain the ocean, and walk around the earth once and you'd only be 1/3rd of the way of shuffling the deck every possible way
Fact three was the most interesting, I didn't know that the people of the past, had problems with drag and drop, but now I know why this game exist, and why I am doinig the daly challenge every day :D
10 facts about Solitaire. Doesn't mention that there are so many solitaire games, or the fact that the name basically means a game that you play solitarily (alone).
+the truth The sad part is a lot of people don't actually know that that is the reason it is called solitaire. You overestimate the intelligence of the average American, especially the younger ones.
QuickNET Tech Most of my fellow US citizens aren't stupid, and it would ignorant if you were to think so. The reason why everyone thinks we're highly unintelligent is because the stupid ones here are louder. As the saying goes, "A few bad apples spoil the bunch.".
+Classy Lizard Man Is Classy True, but most of the people I know (knew actually, I don't socialize much anymore. Been going through a metric shit tonne recently.) were to busy getting drunk and high and the women getting knocked up (3 in the laat 6 months actually). I guess most of that is my fault. The few people I do hang with now could care less about little pieces of random knowledge like that. I guess life clouds my perception a little too easy.
QuickNET Tech Yeah I understand. I grew up in a small town and most of my piers ended up getting someone kocked up, or getting kocked up themselves, and a lot of them did meth. Yeah, for awhile there my surroundings blinded my perception of other people for awhile until I moved somewhere else
gameranx,please,I love you guys, you are up there with my top 3 channels which includes PlayStation access,outsidexbox,and u guys. but your latest videos has me worried you are turning into the next watchmojo
Mendeleev didnt create the Modern Periodic Table. It was Henry Mosely who did. Mendeleev made a more sensible periodic table than Dobreiner and the others did. Mendeleev took atomic mass as the basis + Hydrides and oxides made by elements as the main criteria. Henry Mosely took atomic number as the criteria for Modern periodic table. :P
I once spent an entire swimming carnival on solitaire as I wasn't swimming. Kept breaking my own PB and got under a minute completion time. It was so fun
Fun fact: When you shuffle a deck of playing cards, there is very little chance that anyone in history has ever had that exact same combination of cards.
Guess I was lied to? I had a math teacher in highschool who blamed his streak being broken by a janitor losing a game on his computer. Otherwise, he had a ZERO loss streak and he said every game was winnable. Something must be up.
You make one video about an old and unorthodox game and everyone is like "sellout","you're out of ideas","you're the watchmojo of video games. It's variety and originality, not bland.
The average age of gamers in the US are 30-35. I haven't played Solitaire for 20 years; I'm 32. So what generation is playing the 'most used application' in windows? I think the stats are messed up.
Oh no! Gameranx contrapted the watchmojo syndrome: making videos on weird subjects that no one cares about because they ran out of ideas. Guys, you can still save yourselves, HOLD ON!
1:20 Wait Wait Wait you dont think you will make 250k in your life? If work for 50 years , you would have only had to make $5000 a year. thats like 14$ a day :/
"How much did they pay you guys to give Solitaire a good review?"
And no, we haven't ran out of ideas.
+gameranx I never understood Solitaire xD
Yeah how much
This channel has lost it
+gameranx Seven billion dollars. :)
Yeah, How much!? you sellouts...
This is like the watchmojo of video games
+Julian Klingbiel and that is good.
+Julian Klingbiel No watchmojo is terrible
+ryan rhino *terrible
Rollie Weatherly thanks
nope¡.
"Hey, Bob, did you play your hundred games yet?"
"Oh, shit! I played one more! That counts as cheating on this weird world epidemic! What will we do?! We're screwed!"
lol
funny.
+dovekin teh spoder HAHAHAH
+dovekin teh spoder funny, however a 'world epidemic' is called a 'Pandemic'still funny tho
+XxVainFloxX Funny? It's HILARIOUS, I'm fucking dying over here! What a well-crafted and thought-out joke I tell ya.
I was sceptical on the video choice I won't lie. almost thought you guys where running out of ideas but this thoroughly amazed me.
solitare on windows 2000 is fucking hard
+Katti The Kitten git gud
Get LMAOBOX
Get LMAOBOX
+Katti The Kitten
don't sweat it
i tried playing 20 games and every one of them i got screwed
gameranx try it m98 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I should show this video to my mum. She plays it all the time
+Lovely Parasite It's rated "P" for Parent friendly.
British fuck head
+Brady huff No idea if you called me a "british fuck head" because I spelled it "mum" but I'm actually Swiss and just prefer this way of writing it.
+Lovely Parasite
I was thinking the same.
How has this got 8 likes?
XD
Hey fella, I learned this game when I was like 6. My mom was a semi pro at solitaire. Since we couldn't afford a computer in the late 90's, she would hop in the cab to a friend's office who had this game on his computer and play as long as she could. I actually have a picture of her sitting in front of those old ass computer screens back in 1999 in reach as I type this in :D . Today she still finishes a game in less than 1 min. Having not less than 12k ish She said solitaire is pretty much like poker...the key is not to win every hand, but to analyse a potentially great game and to finish strong using a sharp mind that one must train over and over again. Love this review, thank you for posting it.
-Decimus
1.41 "mathematicians and theorists" *shows chemistry formulas*
Also, you can play it without a mouse, space to pick up or drop, directional button to move the cursor, F2 for a new game
I feel sorry for this man, Wes Cherry. Creating such an influential game and no credit. His name isn't even the first to come up when you look up the game!
Agreed
+crimson2knight
Instead, you find a tropical fruit known as the West Cherry.
Also, are you sure you aren't looking it up on Bing? That's made by Microsoft.
Yup, I google my searches. And it was after my search that I realize his name is spelled Wes instead of West.
+crimson2knight heros don't do their things for personal gain, but for the greater good.
#8: mathematicians and theorists actually struggle to calculate the probability to win a game of Solitaire.
#7: apparently 79% of the games are theoretically winnable.
Well, they don't have to struggle anymore, since gameranx knows the exact probability!
When i was a kid back in the 90's, Solitaire once crashed my computer during the winning card stream thing... And now i am forever fearful of it. True story.
Damn dude that's ice cold
"its not like you get trophies or achievements or theres leader boards or anything"
on my windows phone the worst phone out there i can unlock achievements for Klondike and theres leader boards that are linked to my gamertag ._.
😂
+Space Face i love the windows phone...
+Dino Senpaii
OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE ACHIEVEMENTS ON A WINDOWS PHONE
BOTH ARE MICROSOFT PRODUCTS, RIGHT?
Right?
Joe?
Are you listening, Joe?
as an android user, windows phone is p good
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Can't wait for the 'Things you didn't know about Ms Paint' video guys...
+natshenkin shush, don't bait the homestucks
***10 Things you didnt care about SOLITAIRE
AND IT RHYMES😄
xd
+oCrazy
10 things you spent your entire idiotic life questioning about SOLITAIRE
Exactly
Jake gave me a rush of childhood memories with the men in black references
So am I the only one here that was genuniely impressed?
At school, they removed all traces of the windows games from the start menu and the desktop (but not the actual harddrive, for whatever reason) once, because shit did very decidedly not get done in computer class otherwise.
Taught me a lot about the folder and/or file structure of Win XP, and about how to handle programming and playing Solitair at the same time, but I have to hand it to my teacher - hiding Solitaire was fairly effective for the five minutes that it lasted.
how about "10 things I hope you dident know about gameranx"
*didn't
+Matthew McBurnett that's creative.
love u both tho Bryce Avret flamefox puffballs
+Matthew McBurnett 38 thumbs for a spelling mistake? Pfffffff..........
did you just call a girl the guys part and a guy the girls part?
10 Solitaire Facts I probably didn't want to know.
agreed
+dudeleo No...didn't want...
but needed.
I'm not the game Windows needs, I'm the game Windows deserves
+Haris Ditta Negative
I was not expecting this to be as interesting as it was. I had no idea solitaire had that much importance to Gaming and the Windows OS.
yall doing a great job ..this is one of the best gaming channels out there for real ..
I got the season pass for EA's solitaire 2K16 for only $50
wow no fair i had to pay $89.99 for the season pass when it first came out 😢
+ash64181WAIT, WHAT, ea made me pay £799.99, honestly im not surprised
+Donald Trump but you have a small loan of a million dollars...
Number 3 is definitely true. I used to teach new computer users back in the late 90's at my game center and solitaire was the program I would tell them to go home and practice using a mouse on.
Wow. Gameranx, I gotta say, bravo. Very well researched and you made an amazingly informative video on solitaire. Flippin' solitaire. I liked this video a lot. Can't wait for the next video. Keep er' going with the amazing content. :]
Despite all the video games and board games I play all the time, Solitaire is still probably one of my most played games ever, especially if I include variants like Spider Solitaire or the Churchill Solitaire mobile app that Donald Rumsfeld produced (which is surprisingly fun!) So yeah, you won't see me making fun of this top 10 list, solitaire is great. :)
Lothar Meyer was developing the periodic table at the same time as Dmitri Mendeleev and created a scheme nearly identical to Dmitri's. The periodic table was constructed from similar chemical and physical properties in elements and in an order of atomic weight, also there were elements that hadn't been found yet but fit into the scheme as the scheme accounted for atomic weight and could accommodate this and it was even expected that these gaps existed in specific places. So saying solitaire had some influence is more anecdotal than anything else.
Ah the good old days of playing pinball on Xp. oh. wrong game.
That be pretty cool
This is the most fun I've gotten from both solitaire and gameranx in quite a while.
Excellent Vid!! You should do Pinball next.
"Edge, or whatever the fuck its called now."
definitely loled at this point
A relative once kicked me off the computer for "always playing pointless video games"...she then began playing Solitaire. I told her that Solitaire is technically a video game because it uses a video component and is, in essence, a game...she then kicked me out of the house.
Isn't living with neurotics fun? Don't worry, mate. It's all uphill from there...!
do 10 minesweeper Facts :D
I hope they do a video on Fraction Munchers and Oregon Trail.
That last comparison does make sense if you think about it. How many internet browsers do most people use mainly? Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. How many Windows solitaire versions to people play? Windows solitaire. (not including copies or clones) Side question, who remembers Netscape Navigator?
Is Solitaire your new sponsor, gameranx?
+Rayquazar42 lmao I'm glad you got the reference
I heard somewhere that if you shuffled a deck of cards once every 3 seconds, took a step forward once every million years, and take a teaspoon out of the ocean with every step, you'd drain the ocean, and walk around the earth once and you'd only be 1/3rd of the way of shuffling the deck every possible way
1:38 That's not math.... That's chemistry...
"seven thousand trillion"?
Soooo seven quadrillion then
Holy shit this channel is blowing up. I've been here since like 300k subs. great channel keep it up!
When is a video on Minesweeper and Pinball going to come out?
Fact three was the most interesting, I didn't know that the people of the past, had problems with drag and drop, but now I know why this game exist, and why I am doinig the daly challenge every day :D
$250,000 is probably more than you will ever make? Are you serious?
was about to ask
Ikr
that's 1 year...
In a year maybe
Ever make? Haha most people make a couple million dollars over the course of their life.
For a moment i saw Solaire instead of Solitaire ... Just praise the sun gameranx
Jake is easily my favourite UA-cam personality.
do you think you guys will do a before you buy on Rollercoaster tycoon world?
Who wrote this video? Watchmojo.com or buzzfeed?
10 facts about Solitaire.
Doesn't mention that there are so many solitaire games, or the fact that the name basically means a game that you play solitarily (alone).
+the truth The Truth laying truth bombs
+the truth The sad part is a lot of people don't actually know that that is the reason it is called solitaire. You overestimate the intelligence of the average American, especially the younger ones.
QuickNET Tech Most of my fellow US citizens aren't stupid, and it would ignorant if you were to think so. The reason why everyone thinks we're highly unintelligent is because the stupid ones here are louder. As the saying goes, "A few bad apples spoil the bunch.".
+Classy Lizard Man Is Classy True, but most of the people I know (knew actually, I don't socialize much anymore. Been going through a metric shit tonne recently.) were to busy getting drunk and high and the women getting knocked up (3 in the laat 6 months actually). I guess most of that is my fault. The few people I do hang with now could care less about little pieces of random knowledge like that. I guess life clouds my perception a little too easy.
QuickNET Tech Yeah I understand. I grew up in a small town and most of my piers ended up getting someone kocked up, or getting kocked up themselves, and a lot of them did meth. Yeah, for awhile there my surroundings blinded my perception of other people for awhile until I moved somewhere else
solitaire can be summed up as such, " organize these cards, WITH RULES"
+Zane Roberts Isnt that just every single card game?
Thank you for making videos had a fire this makes me feel better
You guys need to make a top 10 facts about Minesweeper +gameranx
"Or edge or whatever the fuck it's called now" hahaha that was too funny
gameranx,please,I love you guys, you are up there with my top 3 channels which includes PlayStation access,outsidexbox,and u guys. but your latest videos has me worried you are turning into the next watchmojo
I just came here 'cause crave gameranx
you needed really strong CPU for that win game card animation, far above the recommended specs for windows 3.
Now you can get the new deck only for 19.99€. Ace of Clubs now available for 3.95€.
I thought the modern periodic table s out together by Henry Moseley. Didn't Mendeleev make the older periodic table.
i freaking love solitaire man i was mad when my smart phone didn't come with it guess i'm just used to computers having it
OK Gameranx first a damn phone review and now solitaire?
Legit question: why are "10 things" videos in a countdown format? Is there a "top thing" we should know about or?
Wow... I didn't even thing solitaire had more use then just learning people about the drag and drop feature back in the day.
My record for Solitaire is 21 won games in a row. Man was I pissed to see that 5 of clubs get buried in the 22nd game...
Mendeleev didnt create the Modern Periodic Table. It was Henry Mosely who did. Mendeleev made a more sensible periodic table than Dobreiner and the others did. Mendeleev took atomic mass as the basis + Hydrides and oxides made by elements as the main criteria. Henry Mosely took atomic number as the criteria for Modern periodic table. :P
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I bet Solitaire will be the Game of the Year - GOTY
Microsoft charges a subscription to play Solitaire in Windows 10.
no they don't, I played windows 10 solitaire this morning and I've never had to pay a fee
Just Download the game please,Solitaire
SnoopaVision is in beta and will be enabled on 10 SOLITAIRE Facts You Probably Didn't Know by 12/9/2165.
Back in the day when I got bored I would play draw one timed. I think my shortest game was a little under a minute with a really good hand.
I like how when he is talking about maths, the pic that comes up is a chemistry equation.
I once spent an entire swimming carnival on solitaire as I wasn't swimming. Kept breaking my own PB and got under a minute completion time. It was so fun
I busted out laughing when I saw the title
Fun fact: When you shuffle a deck of playing cards, there is very little chance that anyone in history has ever had that exact same combination of cards.
I for one enjoy this video because Solitaire is a game, no matter what you might think, and the facts are interesting.
Seven thousand trillion? You mean 7 quadrillion?
For some reason I expected this notification to have been from Uhohbro
+Paige Asomeone why
Gameranx, gameranx never changes... Never mind.
War, war never changes -"-
You should do a 10 things you didn't know on that pinball game they had on windows xp, I played the shit out of that when I was little lol
Edge is actually a really good browser, I like it and it's tough to decide between chrome and edge.
I'm surprised this wasn't uploaded on April fools day
Guess I was lied to? I had a math teacher in highschool who blamed his streak being broken by a janitor losing a game on his computer. Otherwise, he had a ZERO loss streak and he said every game was winnable. Something must be up.
You should do another video like this for Minesweeper because that game is awesome!
I play solitaire at school it's so satisfying to win a game and see what the cards do
"She made $250k"
"More money that I'll ever make in my life"
You should get a job!
?
+*NIILO* most people will make $250 thousand in their lifetime.
+Jay Swain that is like $5k a year, no way this is true
+Ben Bori I meant that most people make _at least_ $250,000.
+Jay Swain oh ok, sorry i do not speak english natively
solitaire has leaderboards and different modes on win 10. you showed a picture of it at around 8 minutes.
You make one video about an old and unorthodox game and everyone is like "sellout","you're out of ideas","you're the watchmojo of video games. It's variety and originality, not bland.
The average age of gamers in the US are 30-35. I haven't played Solitaire for 20 years; I'm 32. So what generation is playing the 'most used application' in windows? I think the stats are messed up.
Oh no! Gameranx contrapted the watchmojo syndrome: making videos on weird subjects that no one cares about because they ran out of ideas. Guys, you can still save yourselves, HOLD ON!
"Mathematicians and theorists calculated the probability of..." *shows photo of a chemistry equation*
There are more combinations of ways to arrange a deck of cards, than there are atoms on earth.
It's always the mundane shit that I don't expect which ends up having all of these ridiculously complex facts and stories attached to it.
thank you for teaching me about solitaire
I liked playing spider solitaire. Do a video on Minesweeper please.
This video made me want to play solitaire
"7 thousand trillion" So, y'know, seven quadrillion? That is a word y'know.
Don't know how the fuck I enjoyed this video so much. It's fucking solitaire
My grandma plays solitaire. She used to call me over to see the cards cascade at the end.
I used to love solitaire, played it for years with cards before we got a computer
At No. 8 the narrator speaks about maths, though there are chemical equations at one point on the blackboard which I find really disturbing :(
7000 trillion
sooooo... 7 quadrillion?
+the stalking biscuit thinking the same thing....
+the stalking biscuit Yes, this.
+the stalking biscuit i figured he said it that way so not to confuse the few people who never beat solitare
Is this the same as spider solitaire?
yup
+Dominic Bruce no
Yes or no?
Dominic Bruce spider solitaire is a version of solitaire that is completely different
+Dominic Bruce 7.
1:20 Wait Wait Wait you dont think you will make 250k in your life? If work for 50 years , you would have only had to make $5000 a year. thats like 14$ a day :/