Microsoft’s Solitaire, the most boring game ever, tops 100 million users

We all know that solitaire is a game that you play only when there is nothing better to do. And Microsoft shared a number today that shows a lot of us are bored.

Microsoft said today that its Microsoft Solitaire Collection has reached more than 100 million unique users on Windows 10, Windows 8, and mobile devices. That’s not bad for a game that, considering all of its versions, is 26 years old. And the game suite will soon launch on iOS and Android and add events as well. I’m among the many people who have spent a lot of time with solitaire, going far back into the decades. I share “fond memories of winning a game and seeing cascading cards bouncing across the computer screen,” as Microsoft says, from those days when I had nothing better to do.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.