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Solitaire Games
Solitaire is a game most of us have played at some time and it still remains a popular favourite - here we have versions of this game made with beautiful wooden boards and eye-catching pieces.
Solitaire isn't a game at all really - it's a puzzle which has baffled the best of minds for centuries. It was first invented by a French nobleman in the Bastille to while away the hours.
French Solitaire
The French have a different layout of Solitaire board to the English style with four extra holes making a more circular pattern. If you've mastered the cross-style board, why not give a French Solitaire game a try...
£39.90
£38.90
£35.90
£32.90
Standard Solitaire
We try to find Solitaire boards that are a bit special or unusual.
From £39.90
£28.99
£21.49
Luxury Solitaire
Some deluxe Solitaire boards that are extremely high quality.
£99.90
£469.90
Suggested Products
Jaques 9 inch Black Walnut Solitaire
Featuring a solid Black American Walnut playing board with fantastic laser-etched crystal marbles that have the Jaques logo inside!
Jaques Master 9 inch Mahogany Solitaire
Featuring a beautiful hand-turned solid Mahogany Solitaire board finished with clear lacquer and individually drop-coloured marbles.
Octagonal 22cm French Solitaire with boxwood balls
Octagonal French Solitaire with 37 boxwood balls
Round 25cm French Solitaire with steel balls
This is an elegant looking dark wooden Solitaire game with solid steel marbles. Made in the French style of Solitaire with 37 holes, presents a great logical challenge for young and old alike. Set includes 37 steel balls. Solitaire Marbles represe...
Round 27cm French 27cm Solitaire with colourful boxwod balls
Round French Solitaire with 37 colourful boxwod balls
House of Marbles 9 inch standard Solitaire
This is a very nice, wooden Solitaire game with cool blue marbles.
House of Marbles 12 inch Solitaire
This is a beautiful, wooden Solitaire game with interestingly coloured, hand-made marbles
Round 30cm French Solitaire with boxwood balls
French Solitaire with 37 boxwood balls
House of Marbles Duke of York Solitaire (17 inch - hand-made marbles)
We present this beautiful, wooden Solitaire game with exquisitely coloured marbles which is, we believe, the best Solitaire game that money can buy, world-wide.
History of Solitaire
The popular modern game of Solitaire is played on a Fox and Geese board. The game was supposedly invented by a French count who was incarcerated in prison (there are references in French sources back to 1697) and is really a puzzle more than a game.
Solitaire was brought to England in the eighteenth century. You start with all the pegs (or balls) in the holes except the middle hole. Then each turn you hop one peg over another orthogonally but not diagonally. The piece hopped over is taken and removed from the board. The objective is to be left with a single peg in the middle.
Similar games to Solitaire are found in Southern Asia but these are not of the Tafl group being descended from a separate source. Two examples are Cows and Leopards from Ceylon and Tigers and Goats, the National Game of Nepal.
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