When Josh Levin set out to detail the history of computer solitaire for a Slate article, he first had to stop himself from playing it. "I'm happy I got around to writing the piece," Levin says. "It ...

I'm a complete sucker for the solitaire games of Grey Alien Games — a.k.a. Jake Birkett, a solo developer from the pleasant English county of Dorset, assisted by his partner Helen Carmichael, who ...

Solitaire refers to any game played on a tabletop with cards and dominoes played by one person traditionally. These games include peg solitaire and mahjong solitaire. However, there are dozens of ...

"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 ...