WWAKE Solitaire Ring, $1,650; WWAKE Double Sapphire Solitaire Ring, $1,320; WWAKE Two Step Ring, $313.
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Microsoft celebrated the 25th anniversary of solitaire with a special "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" released in 2015.
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"Churchill Solitaire" is nothing more than a nice Solitaire card game, and I'm sure there are dozens of similar apps available.
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For Churchill Solitaire, Rumsfeld used the memos to communicate with his developers at WSC Solitaire LLC as the game came together.
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Launched and funded last week on Kickstarter, SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE is a throwback to vintage computing's favorite time-wasters like Microsoft Solitaire and FreeCell.
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So two years ago he developed Sage Solitaire, an experience explicitly designed with a smartphone in mind, that fused Solitaire with Poker to add new elements of strategy.
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While there are lots of Solitaire games already available on iOS and Android, Microsoft counts its version as the "world's number 1 Solitaire game" thanks to its loyal following on Windows.
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I recently got an ad for Solitaire 95 on Instagram.
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You can now play Solitaire inside of a Google search.
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When you're done, maybe play a few games of solitaire?
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Idle butlers will be forced to play solitaire ad infinitum.
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And yeah, I play solitaire while waiting for the dentist.
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Others were given five minutes to first play Minesweeper or Solitaire.
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Couttigane noted that there's still a market for solitaire diamond rings.
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"Live and Let Die" (1973): Jane Seymour played tarot expert Solitaire.
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His new game Flip Flop Solitaire is based on Spider Solitaire, a variant that involves placing cards in 10 stacks, with the goal of converting them into four neat piles, with each card placed in sequential order.
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Looking to waste time with a round of solitaire on your phone?
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The diamond, the solitaire setting, the antique pedigree...you know the drill.
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Solebon Solitaire, for those quiet moments when you want a simple game.
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She also plays her favorite games, solitaire and blackjack, on the grandPad.
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I want Instagram and this dumb solitaire game that I've been playing.
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The simple band with a sparkly, round solitaire checked all her boxes.
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Microsoft is bringing its popular version of Solitaire to iOS and Android today.
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It's a 2-karat diamond solitaire on (what else) a rose-gold band.
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Solitaire Diamond Bracelet, $290, available in 14-karat yellow, white, and rose gold
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In "Le Solitaire," for instance, you can see how lonely his path was.
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Infamously, Bloomberg once fired a city worker for playing solitaire on the job.
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These include everything from built-in games of Solitaire to games from prior Doodles.
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So what I ended up left with on my phone was a solitaire game.
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If the name didn't tip you off, it's a Winston Churchill-themed Solitaire game.
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Typing "solitaire" into Google gives you a web version of the classic card game.
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Taipei - A game that should be as well known as Solitaire and FreeCell. 8.
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Time that could be devoted to reading, or healthy exercise or, um, online solitaire.
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Hell, you can even waste a bunch of time playing solitaire if you want.
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Prospects for a win: Mr. Trump is not playing poker here — he's playing solitaire.
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While solitaire existed long before video games, its presence in Windows made it readily accessible to anyone with a PC. Microsoft's Solitaire has a lasting legacy, if only because tens of millions of people ended up playing the game and sharing the experience.
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Was it really a relationship, or were they just playing solitaire and typing cute things?
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By playing Solitaire, users honed more than their card skills: a win-win for all.
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Working with an LA-based jeweler, the star chose a 2.75-carat, pear-shaped solitaire.
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Meanwhile, gaming will initially leverage existing Microsoft assets like Minecraft, Solitaire, Mah Jongg and others.
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Options include solitaire, tic-tac-toe, quiz games, drawing games, and games based around chat.
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Since then, a slew of games like Basketball FRVR, Bingo and Solitaire have been added.
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The solitaire is the crown jewel (pun intended) of Conrad's first foray into fine jewelry.
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The most popular engagement ring on Pinterest right now is a simple rose gold solitaire.
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The company believes tablets can be used for more than watching Netflix and playing Solitaire.
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From "Solitaire" (217) to "Different Drummer" (222), he presented many of his protagonists as outsiders.
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"We are bringing old-school Hollywood back—but in the most inclusive way," Solitaire noted.
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Windows 3 was also the first Windows OS to include the now legendary Solitaire game.
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Days later, Charlotte silently wore her pink diamond solitaire to the annual Bal de la Rose.
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While it's certainly not as insanely flashy as Mariah's iceberg-sized solitaire, it's no slouch either.
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Once my device was deemed safe, the app immediately presented an ad for a solitaire app.
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Churchill Solitaire is a free download on iOS devices (there's no mention of an Android release).
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The Solitaire Pavé, from $4,394, available in platinum and 14-karat yellow, white, and rose gold
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Skimping on sleep or sleeping too long is like cheating at solitaire: it only hurts you.
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For example, with solitaire, you can calculate how often someone playing perfectly is likely to win.
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"It doesn't differentiate between someone opening a document to take notes or playing Solitaire," she said.
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"Was there room in one self for author, parent, lesbian, mistress, wife, companion, solitaire?" she contemplates.
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She chooses a traditional round 2.17-carat diamond solitaire in the signature six-prong Tiffany setting.
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Photo: World Video Game Hall of FameAs for Windows Solitaire, Microsoft claims that some 35 billion solitaire hands are dealt each year through the operating system (Microsoft tracks our procrastination?) but numbers on how many players actually get to enjoy that hypnotic game-winning animation are unknown.
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"I came up with the idea to write Solitaire for Windows out of boredom, really," Cherry said.
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Rolling solo doesn't mean you have to resort to Solitaire or Shut the Box for some entertainment.
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Rolling solo doesn't mean you have to resort to Solitaire or Shut the Box for some entertainment.
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The cast and crew were great at FreeCell Solitaire, which Pam is seen playing in the episode.
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The one-minute commercial is mostly designed to push Xbox Live, but with Solitaire as the focus.
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I used it on my grandma's ancient computer, which had only two other games: Minesweeper and Solitaire.
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With that addition, shoppers are getting the chance to snag a replica of LC's solitaire engagement ring.
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Award-winning, profitable, beautiful games like Invisible Inc, Don't Starve, Canabalt, Hundreds, Regency Solitaire, Monster Loves You!
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Last week, Sage Solitaire, an addictive digital reinvention of the classic card game, made the same jump.
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"I decided I wanted something simple, a solitaire and dainty band," Bushnell says of her engagement ring.
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The full list of games include PEOPLE Puzzler, Spellbound, PEOPLE Style Mahjongg, Royal Family Jigsaw and Solitaire.
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Solitaire may be a video game for the ages, but its inclusion in Windows had a higher purpose.
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In the modern era, Microsoft has been forced to bring Solitaire to iOS and Android, alongside Windows 10.
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" Male baby boomers aged 55 to 64 like "Solitaire" and "Scrabble", while women lean towards "Mahjong" and "Monopoly.
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One of the reasons I enjoy Solitaire is because it's so satisfying to make neat, nicely ordered piles.
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If you have any idea who the SoHo solitaire master may be, please send me an email immediately.
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Sometimes I ask the tarot deck to answer huge life questions for me and sometimes I play solitaire.
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When you search for solitaire or tic-tac-toe, it will return a playable game as a result.
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The company said in February, it paid $42.5 million for four Solitaire smartphone games created by Harpan LLC.
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You can now play Solitaire and Tic-Tac-Toe minigames directly in Google's app and web search results.
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Tebow proposed to Nel-Peters, who he has been dating since July, with a 7.25-carat solitaire ring.
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He proposed with an emerald solitaire bought online at Ritani, a site for ethically sourced diamonds, on Oct.
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Card of Darkness is sort of like a game of solitaire mashed up with a dungeon-crawling RPG.
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How's this for attention to detail ... St. Michael's halo features a pear-shaped solitaire of VVS clarity diamonds.
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Solitaire has been a staple for office distraction since Microsoft first included the game in Windows 3.0 in 1990.
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With or without Premium, Xbox users have the ability to connect Microsoft Solitaire Collection to their Xbox Live Gamertags.
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I showed him my choices, and told him about wanting to use the solitaire from my grandmother's engagement ring.
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In an oddly timed YouTube ad, Microsoft has started advertising its modern Solitaire app that works with Xbox Live.
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Although most of us would probably have preferred a Harman/Microsoft announcement involving Solitaire coming to your steering wheel.
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She recently posted a video showing what her Sundays have become ... playing solitaire while playing music to the baby.
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The ring is a 1.2 carat brilliant round-cut solitaire placed in swirl-like setting, designed especially for Phan.
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Mr. Wallace got down on one knee and pulled the solitaire from one of his custom Michigan State socks.
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Donald Rumsfeld helped create an iPhone game app for a difficult version of solitaire handed down from Winston Churchill.
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In Arches, that meant listening to Edward Abbey's tales in "Desert Solitaire" about his seasons working in the park.
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As always, his beautiful touch—as patient as solitaire, as unpredictable as roulette—simultaneously establishes and etherealizes the image.
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He spends his days playing dominoes, solitaire and bingo, and he enjoys going to the movies with his daughters.
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" Abbey's detailed journals and notes from his time in the unfenced Utah backcountry formed the basis of "Desert Solitaire.
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Solitaire was first bundled with Windows 3.0 and appeared in every subsequent version of the software up until Windows 8.1.
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At around 230, I head home to talk to my sister and play Solitaire on my phone for an hour.
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Thanks to the ubiquitous version that's bundled with Windows, pretty much everyone has played a few rounds of digital Solitaire.
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Ferragni's Italian rapper fiancé, Fedez, purposed with a gorgeous solitaire diamond that is best to look at while wearing sunglasses.
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Live healthier, be kinder, quit smoking or e-solitaire, learn Spanish, go to the museum more than twice a year?
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In a romantic shot of the couple kissing, Pulliam enthuses that she's "#BlessedBeyondMeasure," while flaunting her mega-watt, sparkling solitaire.
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It will have a round cut, weigh one carat, and be set in a gold ring with a solitaire setting.
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Cherry developed Solitaire in the few hours of free time that he had as an intern for Microsoft in 1988.
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It's called Pocket Card Jockey, and it blends elements of solitaire and horse racing into a strange and addicting whole.
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So, you know, definitely don't feel pressured to get yourself a rose gold solitaire unless you really, really want to.
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Back on the street, the late-afternoon sun caught a glint of the Cartier solitaire on Ms. Deyn's left hand.
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And Donald Rumsfeld helped create an iPhone game app for a difficult version of solitaire handed down from Winston Churchill.
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Campbell had been a superstitious man who was afraid of the color green and played solitaire to pass the time.
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For those interested in wearable diamonds, Reeds sells round diamond solitaire earrings mounted in 14k white gold, currently for $1,599.95.
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You'll find classics like a solitaire diamond bracelet ($240) made from 14-karat gold and lab-produced Diamond Foundry stones.
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An older man taught three children how to play chess, while another used a deck of cards to play solitaire.
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In a blog post, Microsoft's Paul Jensen, studio manager for Microsoft Casual Games, said the induction of Microsoft Solitaire was historic.
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It was designed by Rob's childhood friend, Ben Baller, and features a giant round solitaire diamond on a diamond-studded band.
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A popular 1 carat solitaire engagement ring can cost around 5,000 pounds ($6,350), while a 3.5 carat sells for 55,000 pounds.
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It's the latest in Gage's growing line of mobile reimaginings of analog classics; so far he's tackled chess and solitaire (twice).
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Microsoft is integrating Xbox Live into the game so you can sign into Solitaire and play with friends or earn achievements.
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It's been quite a journey, beginning in the early 1900s with smaller solitaire diamonds dazzling on plain, 14-karat gold bands.
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So I was surprised to learn that Abbey considered "Desert Solitaire" — his most famous and lucrative work — to be a curse.
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Mr. Pantaleo planned to propose and had armed himself with a 1.8 carat diamond solitaire bought at a Lansing jewelry shop.
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Setting-wise, the halo is out, and the classic solitaire with a hidden halo and three stone rings are requested more.
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And don't even try to play Solitaire or Minesweeper; it's just a lot of wasted space: Now, this is real gaming.
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A stately looking man with a snow-white coif sat quietly at a table playing a game of mah-jongg solitaire.
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The model's ring appeared to be a high-carat cushion cut diamond in a platinum solitaire setting with a diamond pavé band.
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Bond and Solitaire (Jane Seymour) commandeer the vehicle as they struggle to evade police, who are in the pocket of Dr. Kananga.
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The malware, known as BankBot, was concealed inside various flashlight and Solitaire apps, and was first detected by researchers on October 13th.
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For example, type in "solitaire" into the search box, and the game will pop up as a card in the search results.
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Now he's taking a second shot at making the ideal mobile Solitaire by looking at the game from a slightly different angle.
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Seymour was one of many Bond girls during Moore's tenure as 007, starring as Solitaire in 1973's Live and Let Die.
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The Microsoft Solitaire Collection for iOS and Android includes Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid,and Tripeaks game types, alongside daily challenges for players.
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Rumsfeld says the money made from the app will go to charity, but that doesn't mean Churchill Solitaire will offer you mercy.
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As part of the acquisition, Israel-based Playtika will add the Solitaire Grand Harvest app to its growing portfolio of casual games.
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Birthstone Solitaire Ring, $220Made for stacking, this Birthstone ring is designed to break up a gold stack with a bit of personalization.
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Bryan spends a day or two in "Siberia," as he puts it, playing solitaire in an empty office with no internet connection.
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Tiffany sued after it discovered that salespeople at Costco were responding to customer inquiries by calling certain solitaire diamond rings "Tiffany" rings.
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The game designer, who most recently crafted fascinating new spins on chess and solitaire, just released a word game called TypeShift on iOS.
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I had never heard of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire until I saw this post, which sums it up better than I can here.
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The 25-year-old model's ring appeared to be a cushion cut diamond in a platinum solitaire setting with a diamond pavé band.
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Moore's ring is a "brilliant cut solitaire set in a simple rose gold band embedded with a few more diamonds," according to People.
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I expected explosions and bald eagles In fact, there's almost nothing to tie Churchill Solitaire to the former secretary of defense at all.
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She then gave fans an up-close look at her vintage-inspired solitaire on a gold band at the Ghostbusters premiere in July.
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The cards were needed as props for the character of Solitaire, played by Seymour, a psychic who works for a menacing drug lord.
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What's more, one study he highlights used playing the 1990s video games Minesweeper or Solitaire as examples of time wasting that fostered creativity.
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Solitaire Round Diamond Necklace, available at Vrai & Oro, from $650Like diamond earrings, a diamond necklace is a timeless addition to any woman's wardrobe.
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Random Salad Games, the creator of casual titles like "Simple Solitaire" and "Hearts Deluxe," has seen downloads triple since the launch of Windows 210.
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San Francisco-based Skillz runs about 2 million tournaments a day that feature online games such as solitaire, mahjong, and sports-related mobile titles.
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Solitaire bloomed on the horizon just when we needed it, and we lingered over a slab of Moose McGregor's Desert Bakery's famous apple crumble.
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And I've come across more than one infant who looks like they'd rather play solitaire on the computer than make dumb faces at millennials.
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So over time, those of us who read cycled through a unified curriculum of Desert Solitaire, Ishmael, The Prophet, and the Tao Te Ching.
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Price: $4.99 Miracle Merchant is a truly unique solitaire-style card game that sees the player serve as the apprentice to a master alchemist.
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There also happens to be an insane 5-carat diamond solitaire with a platinum band from Elite Time jeweler resting on the sponge cake.
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Type in solitaire or tic-tac-toe to Google, and it will display the game for you to play, right in the search results.
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Free: Android, $1.99: iOS From game developer Zach Gage, Sage Solitaire is a fun and addictive twist to the classic time-wasting card game.
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These days, she uses her iPhone to check Facebook and Instagram, talk with her friends and relatives, and play solitaire and Words With Friends.
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Ms. Chang didn't know he had settled on the solitaire, or that he had stashed it in his backpack when they left New York.
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After he dropped to one knee and tearfully presented the solitaire, and after Ms. Chang also cried before saying yes, he made a discovery.
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There are 354 diamond rings listed on Costco's online site, ranging from $250 up to $365,000 for a 7.45-carat diamond platinum solitaire ring.
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The final duet in "Solitaire" was better yet, attuned to the dissonant undercurrents in a Schnittke score — hints of impulses more potent than prowess.
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In November, he secured a white-gold diamond solitaire ring his grandmother, who died in 2004, had given an aunt to keep for him.
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Dust off your giant noisy keyboard and fire up your VGA because a new version of solitaire is about to drop for MS-DOS.
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In the images, the couple's wedding bands are on full display, with Lambert also wearing what looks to be a stunning solitaire diamond engagement ring.
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I'm talking about the late 2000s, post Snake and Solitaire, but before in-app purchases, free-to-play consultancy firms, and app-to-movie adaptations.
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The best phone games to pass the time in line can be played one handed, and games like Solitaire, Basketmania, or 2048 are also perfect.
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He made a name for himself with twists on existing games like Sage Solitaire and Really Bad Chess, but he also typically developed games solo.
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Solitaire has been a staple of Windows operating systems since the 3.0 edition was released in 1990, but now it's bound to Windows no more.
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Civilization VI (iOS) Designer Zach Gage has a knack for reinventing classic games like chess and solitaire, and now he's done the same for pool.
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Waterdeep, like a lot of worker placement games, can feel like "multiplayer solitaire" where other player's choices are only rarely interacting with your own plans.
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Last year, he released Sage Solitaire, which turned the ubiquitous card game into something faster, more strategic, and better suited for playing on your phone.
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Just in the past few months, Google has outfitted search with solitaire and tic-tac-toe games and a symptom search system for self-diagnosis.
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JOMOs deeply resent the video element, which prevents them from checking their emails or playing solitaire while Ted drones on about budgets for 20 minutes.
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She was wearing a kaleidoscopic Mary Katrantzou shift dress, hair in tight braids and diamond solitaire studs the size of quarters glistening in her ears.
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And then, of course, there's Kim Kardashian's 15-carat Lorraine Schwartz solitaire so big it barely fit into a six-month-old North West's fist.
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The solitaire is at the center, but there are also rectangular diamonds on both side of it and smaller, square diamonds lining the lower band.
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If you select a very simple setting, like a basic solitaire, you could get a ring with a nearly one-carat diamond for under $3,100.
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Oh and check out the matching wedding bands ... they're covered with over 48 carats of invisible set baguette diamonds surrounded by solitaire brilliant round diamonds.
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For Gage — whose past work includes reimaginings of games like chess, pool, and solitaire — the idea was to turn SpellTower into a more evergreen experience.
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When "Desert Solitaire" first appeared in 1968, its prose galvanized environmentalists toward bold action to save the American Southwest from the maw of hyper-industrialism.
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That jail had PCs in the law library, and Pokora got to use his hacker skills to find and play a hidden version of Microsoft Solitaire.
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The two became became engaged in 2014 when Kutcher presented the actress with an understated (if you can call a five-carat diamond understated) round solitaire.
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That said, even though his next game probably won't be yet another modern Solitaire variant, it'll likely be influenced by the card game in some way.
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Rose Leslie was spotted out on Sunday at London's Heathrow Airport wearing a large, solitaire oval-shaped diamond ring set on a slender yellow-gold band.
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There were games available for the Visor, including staples like Solitaire, but it was never an entertainment device, and, as a result, never really a distraction.
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Wes Cherry is a name you're probably not familiar with, but you're definitely familiar with the addicting game he gifted to the world: Solitaire for Microsoft.
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Even if it's a more delicate stone, like a pearl, they are choosing it because it speaks to them, versus saying, 'I need a diamond solitaire.
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The Vantage 2, for two watches, has a retail price of $3,480, up to the Grande Private Museum for $234,1043, or the Solitaire Vision for $265,700.
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In the images, Lambert and McLoughlin's wedding bands are on full display with the singer also wearing what looks to be a stunning solitaire diamond engagement ring.
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And though she'll be down to business soon enough, the star was all smiles in her cutoffs, long coat and solitaire sparkler flashing from her left hand.
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Microsoft Solitaire, bundled with the Windows operating system since 1990, might seem like a modest example of video gaming culture, but it easily meets the above benchmarks.
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The jeweler behind the giant round solitaire diamond on a diamond-studded band is none other than Ben Baller, a friend of Rob's since they were teens.
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I mean in addition to Minecraft, some people kind of laugh at this, but Solitaire is one of our huge Live drivers on Windows 10 right now.
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In traditional Spider Solitaire, you can place cards on each other in descending order, so a 6 can be placed on a 7, but not vice versa.
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A Gizmodo tipster has sent us exclusive photographs that reveal a man working (?) out of an office in Manhattan's SoHo district who just can't stop playing solitaire.
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The new Safe Browsing feature should go into effect immediately, so expect to field confused calls from parents trying to download Solitaire within the next few hours.
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While the game as existed on Windows for more than 25 years, the modern Solitaire Collection will now be available outside of Windows for the first time.
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Microsoft is bringing back the popular card game Solitaire to Windows 10 after pulling it, along with Hearts and Minesweeper, from its ill-fated Windows 8 edition.
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If all of that wasn't enough to induce a major wave of solitaire envy, just wait until you hear how this ring came into the actress's possession.
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He sealed the deal with a 7.25-carat solitaire ring and secretly flew Nel-Peters' family and closest friends from South Africa to witness the intimate engagement.
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Similarly, the clue "Double take?" is paired with SNATCH AND GRAB, "Double solitaire?" goes with ONE AND ONLY and "Double back?" is matched with AID AND ABET.
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Whether you're a lover of classic solitaire diamonds, colored gemstones, plain metals, or something else, we have 50 stunning options to suit every bride-to-be, ahead.
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Nuvola, conceived as Pomellato's alternative to a white solitaire, is introducing the brown gems as the main attraction: a central stone surrounded by smaller brilliant-cut stones.
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Mr. Bloomberg is known for occasionally indulging in fits of peevishness, once firing a city employee after spotting a game of solitaire open on his work computer.
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And just outside the temple doors on Fifth Avenue, there were 1,400 white wedding cupcakes waiting, each with a tiny plastic solitaire ring atop the shiny frosting.
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Other goodies for the crew included a buss down Rolex for Oliver ($75k) and other players got a baguette diamond bracelet ($18k), and diamond solitaire earrings ($25k).
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Only Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" equal "Desert Solitaire" in transforming the genre of naturalist studies into manifestoes for social change.
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"Microsoft officially said that Solitaire was there to teach people how to use the mouse, but in reality it was just something to have fun with," he said.
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Jeremy Saucier with The Strong museum in Rochester, New York, which runs the hall of fame, said Solitaire helped paved the way for today's huge casual gaming market.
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Ironically, even his early posthumous biographer, Emile Szyttia, maintained in 1956 that "the biography of Soutine will never be written with certainty" ("Soutine le Solitaire," Les Lettres Françaises).
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It's making two of the most popular, classic games of all time – solitaire and tic-tac-toe – available both on the desktop web and in its search app.
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People reported that Goldsmith picked out a "brilliant cut solitaire set in a simple rose gold band embedded with a few more diamonds" for his bride-to-be.
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One of the designs is inspired by my own wedding ring: it's a simple solitaire in rose gold instead of yellow gold, because I love rose gold, too.
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Skillz is a mobile multiplayer gaming platform that runs about 2 million tournaments daily featuring online games of solitaire, mahjong and a number of sports-related mobile titles.
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But unlike life, Churchill Solitaire comes with undos — a limited chance to roll back bad moves — and a hints system that will point you to any possible actions.
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Casiraghi quietly signaled their engagement by wearing a diamond solitaire when the couple attended their first official Monaco event together, the annual Bal de la Rose, last spring.
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Her stunning engagement ring is a sight to behold, consisting of 14 solitaire diamonds surrounding a 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-karat white gold.
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Like Ulam's solitaire games and neutron reactions, many modern executive compensation packages involve several variables interacting with each other to determine what a CEO eventually actually gets paid.
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The service can tell a host whether you're showing the main window — a feature designed to help managers make sure you're not playing Solitaire instead of paying attention.
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When he got down on one knee and presented her with a diamond solitaire ring, then asked in Spanish if she would marry him, she couldn't stop smiling.
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He sealed the deal with a 7.25-carat solitaire ring and secretly flew Nel-Peters' family and closest friends from South Africa to Florida to witness the intimate engagement.
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"This ring is internally flawless — just like you," Tebow, 31, said as he slipped the jaw-dropping 7.25-carat solitaire ring on Nel-Peters' finger as she said yes.
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The company, known for its solitaire engagement rings, posted better-than-expected sales and profit in the latest reported quarter helped by demand for bracelets, necklaces and branded jewelry.
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I feed our girl-cat, since she got shorted during breakfast this morning, and then climb into bed to play Solitaire on my phone and rest for a while.
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While the couple has never formally announced their engagement, Casiraghi, 34, accompanied film producer Rassam, 37, to Monaco's Bal de la Rose last March wearing a large diamond solitaire.
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Put together by Slack dev Felix Rieseberg, the 129mb file downloadable from GitHub allows you to reminisce on the old days of MS Paint and wasting time on Solitaire.
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However I wanted to design a ring that still had a little style so I incorporated a four-prong swirl solitaire mount for the 14-karat white gold ring.
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PEOPLE Games is finally here, introducing fans to new-and-improved takes on classic games, such as mahjongg, solitaire and word search, among others – all with a celebrity component.
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Sure, they probably left the arena pissed about missing out on hockey, but at least they were treated to some quality Solitaire action on the jumbotron: [Detroit Free Press]
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"Do you want a plain solitaire, like a plain metal one, or diamonds on the shoulders?" the saleswoman asks as I peer over a shelf of identical looking rings.
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Outside, on the hill above the gallery, gendered stereotypes come together in "Solitário [Solitaire]" (2018), an enormous engagement ring made of out golden car wheels and crystal whisky glasses.
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So he described their relationship, including the age difference, to salespeople and came away with a 2.6-carat solitaire — a nod to Ms. Zhou's age at the time, 26.
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But twirling pens on your fingers or mastering Solitaire aren't nearly as impressive as driving an 18-ton front-end loader on two wheels while making the gigantic machine twerk.
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Rob posted a photo of his girlfriend to Instagram on Monday night showing off a fat stack of dollar bills and a very suspicious-looking solitaire on her left hand.
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"You guys are gonna put me in my grave," he told Rick while playing Spider Solitaire after hearing the news about a dismantled helicopter bought for a $100,000 restoration project.
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But Tristan wasn't doing too shabby in the solitaire department himself, wearing his 2016 Cavaliers championship ring that was bestowed upon him Tuesday night, and is completely covered in diamonds.
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Their wedding bands were traditional: a pavé band for her, that perfectly matched her engagement ring (itself a round cut, pink solitaire diamond) and a simple silver band for him.
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The likes of ClamWin and Eraser can look after the security of your portable system and there are even some basic games you can play, including solitaire, chess and 2048.
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Blankness is broken only by the "plume solitaire éperdue" ("solitary wandering feather") in tiny italics and then, just toward the center of the book's spine, the lonely word "sauf" ("except").
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While it's tempting to be fooled by the rocks that she's got, she's still just Jenny from the block, even when covered in handfuls of diamond rings and solitaire earrings.
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Tebow, 31, sealed the deal with a 7.25-carat solitaire ring and secretly flew Nel-Peters' family and closest friends from South Africa to Florida to witness the intimate engagement.
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However, each card features interesting typography history, essential fonts, or tips for improving your composition so you can learn about typeface as you crush a game of solitaire or poker.
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I spent about 30 minutes riffling through a sea of sparkly prom barrettes, glittery headbands, and BFF necklaces before I settled on decent-looking cubic zirconia solitaire for $5.50. Sold!
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Looking at his posts, I used to marvel at his bullheadedness, but the whole thing seemed to me like playing a game of solitaire; the posts appeared to go unnoticed.
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But instead of presenting a traditional diamond solitaire, he held out a "smog free ring," a piece of designer jewelry that has come to symbolize the fight against urban pollution.
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The analyst noted weakness in Tiffany's higher-priced categories, including engagement, wedding, high, fine and solitaire jewelry even though it has improved results in lower-priced designer and fashion categories.
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Cherry's game got an official blessing from Bill Gates himself (though Gates' "biggest complaint was that Solitaire was too hard to win"), and it became a staple of Microsoft's operating system.
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To be clear: this isn't the first time the game of Solitaire is available for Android and iOS; a quick look at either one's app marketplace reveals that's not the case.
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It hosts about 2 million tournaments, featuring online games of solitaire, mahjong and a number of sports-related mobile titles for amateur gamers who earn cash prizes based on their performance.
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THE FIERCEST dispute in the world of literary translation, where knuckles may be bared over the precise nuance of solitaire or Gestalt, concerns whether the translator should be visible or not.
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Microsoft first introduced Solitaire in 1990 with Windows 3.0, and it was used widely as a great way to avoid doing real work on a computer or to cure office boredom.
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And nearly a decade later, at this year's Grammy Awards, she chose a one-of-a-kind pair of floral inspired multi-colored chandelier earrings and marquise-cut diamond solitaire ring.
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Janney sports solitaire round diamond earrings, a diamond choker that totals over 55 carats, a dazzling diamond bracelet and an 18-carat ring, which was the biggest diamond in her ensemble.
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Nonetheless, there is a great big world outside of solitaire, Sudoku and brain games for older players to explore, and it arguably has a lot more to offer them as well.
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It is branded as the "most diabolical version of solitaire ever devised" and already has a 4.5 star rating in the app store with nearly 600 reviews after debuting last week.
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Joshua Caleb Weibley played solitaire on a Windows 98 laptop for the entire trip, in order to highlight the legacy of the electronic card game as a form of isolated entertainment.
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For Barth, porting SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE, a mini-game from his programming game SHENZHEN I/O, to archaic computer architecture was a source of artistic inspiration—a spiritual journey, if you will.
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Last month a number of misleading stories once again claimed Windows 10 has a keylogger built in, and there have been similar unfounded concerns about gaming and ad-supported versions of Solitaire.
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To call Solitaire a town would be generous; its popularity stems significantly from the very fact that it exists, since gas-station sightings are less common than a mirage in Namibia's hinterland.
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Gage takes the most familiar and played-out genres (a remake of Space Invaders, an update to Solitaire, a Milton Bradley board game, word puzzles) and contorts them into commentaries of themselves.
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Idenfors says that taking a chance on that strange ad has helped her improve at some of her other hobbies, her training allowed her to develop new strategies for solitaire and mahjong.
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Like many traditional retailers, Tiffany has struggled to appeal to younger shoppers, many of whom have shunned the type of traditional jewelry, such as solitaire engagement rings, that is the brand's mainstay.
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I wasn't sure what I expected from Donald Rumsfeld's first iOS game — as if I expected the phrase "Donald Rumsfeld's first iOS game" to exist at all — but it wasn't Churchill Solitaire.
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Overall, if you want to impress at your next family or friends game night or you are just tired of playing solitaire and want a new challenge, pick up Beasts of Balance.
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Playtika, which operates apps including poker and solitaire, launched a US$2.5bn term loan to refinance an existing bridge loan on November 13, according to four people with knowledge of the transaction.
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His death in 1989 silenced his outraged voice, but no one will ever be able to silence the power of "Desert Solitaire," his wild-goat cry to leave it as it was.
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Cut The Rope is one of the best known offline-ready titles, while there are several versions of Solitaire available, and an awesome Free Rider HD Offline Editor to play around with too.
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Kaley Cuoco has stopped crying since her fiancé, Karl Cook, proposed with a pear-shaped solitaire diamond, flanked with a dainty diamond band, from Nadis Diamonds – but she hasn't stopped showing it off.
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In one case, the Justice Department alleged Covidien paid kickbacks to hospitals to induce them to use its Solitaire mechanical thrombectomy device, which is intended to restore blood flow in certain stroke patients.
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But instead of America, Churchill Solitaire focuses on one of Britain's most notable figures — Winston Churchill — and opens with archive footage of the wartime prime minister touring bombed-out cities and visiting troops.
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The "losers" — Final Fantasy VII, Wii Sports, Windows Solitaire, Mortal Kombat, Portal, Resident Evil, Myst, and Tomb Raider — all still have a real shot to be inducted with future Hall of Fame classes.
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I'll cut to the chase—it's made me reconsider Solitaire as a diversion worth my time in this age of blockbuster games and social media, and I don't think that's the scotch talking.
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Mr. Smith told me that many readers, for instance, seemed to breeze past whole sections of "Desert Solitaire," including an early chapter in which Abbey strikes a shamefully condescending tone toward the Navajo.
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The good news is that a solitaire setting is the most popular setting, as well as a truly timeless option, Oded Edelman president and founder of the parent company of online jeweler JamesAllen.
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He shut down Grindr in favor of shoulder-friendly solitaire, but most of his attention, particularly during the initial lurch forward, was focussed on whether any of his fellow-passengers were hidden threats.
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" Perhaps the most surprising name on the list is "Microsoft Windows Solitaire," which isn't traditionally mentioned as an iconic video game, at least not in the same breath as "Donkey Kong" and "Pokemon.
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Google's take on Solitaire appears to be a pretty basic version of the classic, though it could prove to be a good source of easy entertainment for those looking to kill a little time.
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It's not a game that's likely to hit the top of Twitch streams anytime soon, but it's a fun Easter egg for when you're stuck without an internet connection, and Solitaire isn't your thing.
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On a recent day, she wore a sizable old-cut diamond solitaire set in onyx caged with a thin gold line, a piece she designed when the first of her four sons was born.
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According to the diamond experts at Shane Co., between the emerald cut, the solitaire band and the 15 carat diamond (!), Lopez's new engagement ring could have potentially cost her husband-to-be about $5 million.
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VW: That sounds very peaceful and like a good thing for a ten-year-old to do just like, just like playing endless games of Solitaire by themselves, safe from the dangers of the internet.
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Microsoft has addressed a number of complaints previously, but some misleading stories suggested Windows 10 has a built-in keylogger, while others have focused on unfounded concerns about gaming and ad-supported versions of Solitaire.
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Depending on when you peeked into the room, you might have found my dad playing Solitaire, my sister downloading songs from Napster, or me playing Wheel of Fortune or writing my name in Microsoft Paint.
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Chrissy Clarius, a customer in Maryland, brought in her engagement ring — a solitaire diamond on a white-gold band, purchased for $4,299.99 in 2010 — to a local Kay store for routine inspection, according to Buzzfeed.
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My nieces and nephews bought my 82-year-old sister a computer a couple years back — to this day, she's still too scared to learn how to get online, only using it to play Solitaire.
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Almost 5.5 million likes have lit up Instagram since Jennifer Lopez posted a photo of the engagement ring that Alex Rodriguez presented to her in March: an emerald-cut solitaire diamond on a platinum band.
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Extra points if you help her figure out some piece of technology, like getting her on Whatsapp to observe the group family chat (like she knows how to text!) or putting Solitaire on her iPad.
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"Microsoft Solitaire demonstrated that there existed a vast market for games that appeal to people of all types, paving the way for the growth of the casual game market," said the institute in a press statement.
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"I'm a one-man band, so the time requirement to issue fixes, deal with support emails, and test on devices is a serious impediment to getting my own work done," says Sage Solitaire developer Zach Gage.
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New York (CNN Business)A new Dell feature means iPhone users won't have to look away from their computer screens in the middle of work (or of a heated solitaire game) to answer a text message.
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Churchill Solitaire is a fairly simple tweak on the classic card game, a variant with two decks of cards instead of one that was reportedly played by the wartime prime minister when he was suffering from insomnia.
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Each race is broken down into multiple parts: you'll spend your time alternating between playing quick bouts of solitaire — the faster you play, the bigger speed boost you'll get — and strategically directing your horse around the track.
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A weekslong ring shopping expedition during which Mr. Mateo vacillated between buying what he called "an artistic, very Brooklyn" salt-and-pepper diamond or a simpler solitaire, in keeping with Ms. Chang's minimalist taste in jewelry, followed.
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Once seated, I promptly ordered both Peter and me L.I.T.s on Applebee's electronic menu, an iPad-like device that allows you to order alcohol and play games like slots and solitaire (except you can't actually win anything).
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As these conservation heroes go to bat for us all, they'd do well to keep "Desert Solitaire" in their back pockets, providing a call to action or, at the least, uplifting smelling salts to boost their resolve.
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And yet the network still developed a show around Candy Crush, a game that came out five years ago, has long since peaked, isn't known for its streaming community, and features gameplay that's barely more interesting than Solitaire.
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If you're just browsing the internet, playing solitaire and occasionally watching a grainy video on YouTube then you don't need to hold out on buying a new computer until the Kaby Lake processors start appearing later this fall.
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Peretti attended the Vanity Fair Young Hollywood Party in L.A. wearing a Tadashi Shoji slip dress, blue eyeshadow and a couple rings — including her new sparkler, which appeared to be a princess-cut solitaire on a slim band.
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Microsoft is offering its Solitaire Collection on iOS and Android free of charge, as the company hopes to gain more players to add to the 119 million who have played the game on Windows 8 and Windows 10.
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Instead of simply moving cards so that they fit back into single-suited piles from Ace to King, Churchill Solitaire includes an extra row of six cards — the Devil's Six — that a player has to liberate as well.
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"Microsoft's Solitaire" was mostly an afterthought when it was added to the company's influential Windows operating systems, but millions of people were introduced to the card game as a result of Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer market.
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While Gage was largely satisfied with how that game turned out — and it was also one of the most commercially successful games he's ever made — its combination of Solitaire and Poker proved a little too challenging for many players.
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On Android, instead of the Solitaire-style layout of stacked tabs currently in use, Chrome is switching to a grid-based tab layout so you can more easily see a preview of what's in a tab at a glance.
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It includes The Solitaire Fountain Pen with The Webster&aposs official Pantone pink color ink bottle and a calf-leather fine stationery notebook printed with The Webster&aposs Flamingo Logo — and it retails for $1,655 exclusively at The Webster.
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Reminiscent of the jumping stack of cards animation that plays after winning a game of Solitaire on Windows 2000, the forms emphasize "the ongoing battle between empiricists and those who depend on instinct," according to the exhibition press release.
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But also, a world without like Twitter and Instagram, but like lots of Solitaire also sounds like a Grandma's life... So it's kind of funny that like a ten-year-old probably also lives like a senior citizen on their phone.
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News. She debuted her new sparkler at the Now You See Me 2 premiere in early June, then gave fans an up-close look at her romantic, vintage-inspired solitaire on a gold band, at the Ghostbusters premiere in July.
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His first release, now available on iOS, is a very special game called Churchill Solitaire, which (as the story goes) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill played during World War II to keep his mind sharp and in the wartime mindset.
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Click here to view original GIFBesides killing a few hours at work, what keeps most people playing Windows Solitaire is the incredibly satisfying finale where all the cards fall and bounce across the bottom of the window when you win.
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That's because drawing a poker hand is a straightforward one-step process of picking up five cards, while evaluating a solitaire game generally involves looking at what happens to an entire card deck over a large number of steps or turns.
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Instead of simulating solitaire games or neutrons in a nuclear reaction, the company's future stock price is simulated thousands of times, following a standard random model for how stock prices evolve over time, using data on the stock's historical performance.
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But the presence of any emotion during a violent scene in a game feels like a step forward, towards addressing and perhaps moving past murder as a mere input, performed as casually and disinterestedly as drawing a card in Solitaire.
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Solitaire Diamond Necklace, available at Vrai & Oro, $335 - $340 Available in 14k yellow, white, and rose gold This singular diamond in a simple bezel setting is a classic, and all she needs to add a little sparkle to her everyday.
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The former NFL player proposed to Nel-Peters, who he has been dating since July, with a 7.25-carat solitaire ring and organized for South African singer Matthew Mole to perform "The Wedding Song" after he got down on one knee.
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According to one study that Young cites in her book, people who played a game of solitaire on a computer while eating ate faster, ate nearly twice as much and felt less full than people who were not distracted while eating.
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The mother, Lidia, a Milanese, is the opposite: immovably serene, playing solitaire and chatting with the seamstress when she is not journeying happily here and there to bring clean clothes to the men in the family who are in jail.
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Google's Android and iOS mobile apps will both include the new shortcuts, but the Android version will also include access to a currency converter, solitaire, tip calculator, roll a die, and all important animal sounds for when you need to goof around.
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I would read a few pages and then think about playing Spider Solitaire — not because the book was bad but because I had become unaccustomed to committing to one thing at a time without relying on my phone for small bursts of stimulation.
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It's a whirlwind job that took Perez from being feted at a donor conference at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington Thursday night to playing Solitaire on his iPhone in row 31 on a Delta flight to Detroit shortly after dawn the next morning.
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Normally a meditative exercise in time-wasting, Churchill's variation on Solitaire is already trickier than normal, and it's made even more stressful by a soundtrack that sounds like a cross between a military march and a battle theme from a Japanese RPG.
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" There is a fine set-piece in "Desert Solitaire" where Abbey tacks a scarlet bandanna to a ridgepole outside his government-issued trailer house, then hangs Chinese wind-bells to chime in the dry breeze — a ritual of "poetry and revolution before breakfast.
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From here, Android users will be able to do things like access Google Translate, look up nearby attractions, find flights or hotels, do an internet speed test, convert currency or even play games like tic-tac-toe, roll a die, animal sounds or solitaire.
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It's not entirely clear why Microsoft feels the need to suddenly advertise Solitaire for Xbox Live, or why there's a polar bear involved, but maybe it will all become clear on Sunday when the company outlines its plans for the future of its gaming platform.
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According to a retrospective article on the development of Monte Carlo methods in the journal Los Alamos Science, Stanislaw Ulam, one of the lead physicists working on the Manhattan Project to develop the first nuclear weapons, took inspiration from analyzing a solitaire card game.
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This one took the Pied Piper crew from joy at moving into lavish new offices — Dinesh could now play solitaire on six monitors at once — to the dawning realization that their utopian storage platform was being turned into a black box designed to hide information.
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As Ms. Cartwright ordered her second chocolate martini that night at Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, Mr. Nelson excused himself and went to his car, where he had left the princess-cut diamond solitaire ring that he and Mr. McKenzie had picked out.
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In the 1980s, as a succession of Reagan-era appointees sought to weaken protection of federal lands, "Desert Solitaire" became a must-read for environmentalists and Abbey found himself speaking to crowds of hundreds, denouncing money-grubbers who willy-nilly looted the public domain.
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While the ring finger placement and mega-carat solitaire seem to suggest things are getting courthouse official, it seems this is the same ring she flashed back in February when rumors about the couple's DTR status first started flying — and were almost just as quickly debunked.
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Jenner, 32, most recently starring in Sex with Brody, proposed to Carter, 27, on May 4, while the two were vacationing in Bali – and he popped the question with a huge four prong solitaire oval diamond, set on a classic silver band, from jeweler Adam Campbell.
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Laura arrived at the film premiere wearing a turquoise lace dress with a partially sheer skirt that hit just below her knee, as well as earrings, a necklace, and a bracelet from Forevermark Diamonds, and a large round solitaire on a thin pavé yellow gold band.
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Not only does solitaire continue to be developed for almost all contemporary devices (unlike, for instance, 3D Pinball), but, as Weibley noted, the dragging motion it requires is echoed today in touch-screen technology, making it an early development in the history of the drag-and-drop.
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And maybe one of those guys would start looking at the jewelry, but he'd realize that he had no clue about what a woman would like because he was just a dumb man, and so he would ask the woman what he should buy, maybe that solitaire?
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Rather than having to search for games in the Play Store and then download them to their device, users could immediately begin playing select titles like "Solitaire" or "Pac-Man" online from within the Play Store, saving them time as well as space on their phones.
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Heartbreak doesn't appear to be slowing down the singer one bit, as she's been going out every night eating dinner with friends and shading magazines that have done her wrong, all while wearing some barely-there, lingerie-inspired apparel with that 35-carat solitaire still firmly in place.
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It appears the Dawes frontman opted for a piece of jewelry as simple and classic as Moore's personal style, choosing what appears to be a good-sized round, brilliant cut solitaire set in a simple rose gold band embedded with a few more diamonds, just for good measure.
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He has been a success at every level and in all manner of yachts, beginning with France's Solitaire du Figaro, which he won at 24, and continuing when he won the 2011-12 edition of the grueling, prestigious round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race in his first attempt.
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When I was young, I felt a high-minded scorn for the whodunits my elders favored: mystery novels that inducted you into the specificities of British racecourses or Native American reservations while satisfying the same itch for neat solutions as my father's games of solitaire, my mother's crossword puzzles.
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IN THE BALTIC SEA, Sweden, Sept 7313 (Reuters) - With each 24-tonne steel pipe laid on the seabed of the Baltic Sea, the vessel Solitaire is edging closer to what could be a costly hold-up for the Russian-led gas pipline project which has divided the European Union.
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And while you were killing time trying to get to the blur of cards on screen after beating the Windows version of Solitaire, you probably weren't thinking about how that distraction was installed on more than one billion machines and was a turning point in how home computing is viewed.
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To answer these questions, I spoke with three of the most talented mobile game designers around: Zach Gage, creator of games like Sage Solitaire and Spelltower; Asher Vollmer, the designer behind Threes; and Rami Ismail, one half of Dutch studio Vlambeer, the team behind games like Ridiculous Fishing and Super Crate Box.
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I honestly probably haven't played a full game of Solitaire in any form since the days when AOL was still cramming mailboxes with those annoying CDs, but it didn't take long to slip back into the dance of matching alternating red and black cards in cascading rows ordered from Kings to Aces.
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" After proposing with a 1.75 carat round solitaire diamond, which he picked out and designed with a local jewelry maker, Dawson says the newly engaged pair "finished the moment off with her favorite rosé champagne, and I got to tell her about the ring and everything leading up to the best night of our lives.
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While many card games lend themselves nicely to straightforward direct calculations — calculating the odds of drawing particular poker hands, for example, is a classic exercise in basic probability theory — Ulam realized that trying to directly calculate the probability of a particular solitaire game being winnable in a similar fashion would be difficult or impossible.
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Ms. Hallenberg, on the other hand, made an unobtrusive American debut in the mid-1990s in Minnesota with "Solitaire," a new opera by Björn Hallman, and reappeared a few years later as Dejanira in Cavalli's "Ercole Amante" at the Boston Early Music Festival, her only appearances on this continent in staged opera to date.
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But while you may think buying a present for a woman with that level of solitaire bragging rights would be impossible, as she told Seth Meyers during her appearance on Thursday night, shopping for her is really quite simple, as long as you stick to something in the festive multi-million dollar bling family, that is.
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Wearing a low cut, high-slit, ankle-length black sequin dress with a long-sleeve cropped turtleneck sweater, Moore was all smiles at the event — posing with her left hand on her hip which accentuated her new bling (a round, brilliant cut solitaire set in a simple gold band surrounded by pave diamonds, just for good measure).
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Windows 103 launched back in July 2015, and almost immediately garnered criticism for the use of default settings to harvest large amounts of user-data, such as web browsing history and wi-fi network names and passwords — for purposes including displaying personalized adverts as users browse the web, and even for ads displayed within the built-in Solitaire game.
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Today, The Strong's National Museum of Play officially announced all the 2019 World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees, and this year Windows Solitaire is being joined by Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, and the deepest cut: a 1976 text-based title called Colossal Cave Adventure which paved the way for today's sprawling, fantasy-based games.
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It was only a couple of years ago when I'd first read "Desert Solitaire" and been floored by Abbey's barreling prose, his joy and petulance, his pre-Gonzo Gonzoness: "[F]or godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those [expletive] sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs, look around; throw away those goddamned idiotic cameras!" he wrote.
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But fear not, lovers of the Utah canyon country, for the ghost of free-spirited eco-warrior Edward Abbey once again gallops to the rescue via his eloquent and funny memoir "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness," first published 50 years ago this month and reviewed by The Times on this exact day in 1968.
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In "Desert Solitaire" he denounces the mere thought of large-scale uranium mining in Utah's howling salmon-pink tableland, and he reminds a cynical and distrustful public — both a half-century ago and today — that the mission of the Park Service, from its 1916 establishment onward, is to preserve our treasured landscapes in an "unimpaired" fashion.
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If Zinke would read "Desert Solitaire," hike Comb Ridge and the Grand Staircase–Escalante as Abbey regularly did, run the awesome San Juan River around Slickhorn Canyon, or camp under the lonely sky of Cedar Mesa, he might undergo a miraculous awakening and push Trump to rescind his reckless executive orders — but that, of course, is unlikely.
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I enjoyed the novelty of the classic Windows 95 tabs and the iconic pixelated palm tree cards for one game before I forgot about it, but the experience did get me thinking about when I moved to New York City three years ago from South Korea, and the first time I saw someone on the subway playing Solitaire on their phone.
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Mostly what we get is her: the Bum running and jumping; playing in the canyons; snuggling in a sleeping bag with a copy of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire (while Abbey, one of the great misanthropes of American literature, rolls sickened in his grave, as the secret places of his blessed solitudes now unspool in mass communications for all the world to find and invade).
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In it, the glowing abyss of cyberspace—a term the novel is perhaps now best remembered for popularizing—is itself a sort of afterlife, balkanized into looming echelons of mega corporations and military-industrial spook country, haunted by scheming artificial intelligences that Gibson casts as ghosts and demons summoned up from the archives of humankind's collective superstition into some final solitaire of global thanatos.
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J. Miller) kicking the shit out of one of those weird deer-like robots, the gang getting lost inside a subterranean server farm, the meek Jared (Zach Woods) being forced out of his own apartment by his Airbnb guest, Martin Starr's perpetually chilled-out coder, Bertram, being sent hoverboards and Oculus Rifts as gifts from job recruiters, Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) playing computer solitaire with a Keyglove and several linked monitors.
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These are not re-enacted, but almost everything he tells from grade school on is, by a cast of actors that includes Jeff Garlin as the blustery, vulgarian Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman; Dana Carvey as Johnny Carson; and the real-life Bond girl Jane Seymour (she played Solitaire in "Live and Let Die" (1973), Roger Moore's first turn as 007) as Lazenby's agent in 1960s Swinging London.
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