Accessible Solitaire

The Accessible Solitaire app has been designed to provide a fun experience for all players.

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Guy Barker – Technical Accessibility Enthusiast

For some background on me, visit All Good Things, Explorations into Assistive Technology, and Reflections on Twenty Years of Exploration.

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What new types of solitaire would you like me to consider later in the year for the Accessible Solitaire app?

All usable aspects of the Accessible Solitaire games have come about thanks to feedback from players. In fact the app only exists because someone asked if I’d be building a Klondike solitaire app. And since I built it, I was asked if I could add a Pyramid, Tri Peaks, and Baker’s Dozen game, so they’re all in the app now.

But when I added the new games, from a software development perspective, the games were rather squeezed into the app which had only really been designed to handle the Klondike game. So while the new games generally seem to work ok, the whole app is now not as robust as players need it to be. For example, when dealing cards or resuming an earlier game, it can take a while for the game to be ready to play, and sometimes dealt card piles might not appear at all and the app needs to be restarted. And I’ve yet to publish the Baker’s Dozen game for Android, as the game doesn’t work on that platform yet. All in all, I need to spend the next couple of months reworking the app’s code to make to more robust now and into the future.

During this time, if I add any new features, they’ll probably be very small ones which require few code changes.

But hopefully later this year the app will be ready for more significant updates, including potentially adding new types of solitaire games. And with that in mind, I’d be very interested in hearing from you as to which solitaire games you’d like me to add. I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to add the games, but I can at least try.

A couple of players have already suggested the following four solitaire games which I’ll consider:

  • Spider Solitaire.
  • FreeCell Solitaire.
  • Royal Parade Solitaire.
  • Leap Frog Solitaire.

If you’d also like me to look into adding any of these games, or would like me consider other types of solitaire, please do let me know.

Thanks!

Guy

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3 responses to “What new types of solitaire would you like me to consider later in the year for the Accessible Solitaire app?”

  1. Daniel Parker Avatar
    Daniel Parker

    Perhaps it’s too similar to Pyramid, but I especially like Baroness solitaire. It works similarly except that there are only five card dealt piles in the game total. Fourteen Out and Gay Gordon (adds up to 11) are also good. I’d also suggest looking into the Golf family of Solitaires, where you are trying to discard everything onto the waste pile by building one rank higher or lower than the top card. Overall though, I really enjoy this app and I salute all the hard work going into it! Thanks a lot!

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    1. Guy Barker Avatar
      Guy Barker

      Hi Daniel, thanks very much for all these ideas. I’ve currently just started working on adding another solitaire game called Royal Parade, suggested by another player. Before too long, I really do need to take a break from adding new games to the app, and try to fix some of the existing problems in the app. (I’ve listed some of those https://accessiblesolitaire.com/2026/02/18/accessible-solitaire-known-issues.) But your ideas do sound really interesting. Perhaps once I’ve finished Royal Parade (assuming I manage to get that to work), I could work on one of the games you’ve mentioned, and then after that start working on some of those know issues in the app. Given that you said you enjoyed Baroness Solitaire and Aces Up Solitaire, perhaps I should try to add one of those?

      Thanks also for letting me know that you enjoy playing the app. Typically if someone contacts me about the app, it’s because it’s not working right, so it’s nice to know the app’s behaving itself for you!

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    Daniel Parker

    A couple more: I used to enjoy playing aces up, where the objective is to finish the game with aces showing on the top of each card pile. I’ve also heard that Grandfather’s Clock (easier) and Clock (hard) are interesting, because they start with a random card, rather than the ace or king, to build foundation piles.

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