{"id":392,"date":"2008-06-15T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=392"},"modified":"2008-06-15T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T19:53:00","slug":"royal-solitaire-or-royal-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/06\/15\/royal-solitaire-or-royal-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Solitaire or Royal Waste of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/solitaire.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/store\/appstore.html\">iPod games<\/a> I&#8217;ve bought is Royal Solitaire. It is a collection of 10 versions of solitaire card games. FreeCell (one of my life goals is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaakistan.com\/list\/063.html\">Win 25 FreeCell Games in a Row)<\/a> and Klondike (the solitaire game that comes with Windows and also with the iPod) were familiar to me before, but the other eight were new.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aces Up<br \/>Beleaguered Castle<br \/>Canfield<br \/>Freecell<br \/>Golf<br \/>Klondike<br \/>Peaks<br \/>Pyramid<br \/>Scorpion<br \/>Yukon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I picked up the iPod last weekend and played Aces Up and won. This is a very rare occurrence because the game has very little to do with skill and all to do with the cards dealt. I decided to try Beleaguered Castle and won at that too. Beleaguered Castle is even harder because most games barely permit you the first move! I then got the idea to beat all 10 games in one day, which I did.<\/p>\n<p>My shame is that the game logs how much time I play and in the past 18 months, I&#8217;ve spent just over 80 hours playing the dumb games. Gotta interact more with people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the iPod games I&#8217;ve bought is Royal Solitaire. It is a collection of 10 versions of solitaire card games. FreeCell (one of my life goals is to Win 25 FreeCell Games in a Row) and Klondike (the solitaire game that comes with Windows and also with the iPod) were familiar to me before, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/06\/15\/royal-solitaire-or-royal-waste-of-time\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-392","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}