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Solitaire (disambiguation)

tabletop game normally played alone using a set of cards, tiles, stones or other pieces

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ52670593 ↗
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Solitaire is a genre of single-player card games.

Solitaire may also refer to:

Games

Klondike (solitaire), a card game, also known as solitaire in North America

Microsoft Solitaire, a computer game

Mahjong solitaire, a tile game

Peg solitaire, a board game called "solitaire" outside of the U.S.

Solitaire, a non-player character from Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker

Film and television

Le Solitaire, a 1987 French film

Solitaire (1991 film), a Canadian drama film

Solitaire (2008 film), a drama film

Solitaire, 2016 Lebanese comedy film with Bassam Kousa

"Solitaire", a 1977 episode of Police Woman

"Solitaire", a 1996 episode of Dave's World

Solitaire (James Bond), a character in Live and Let Die

Solitaire Island, a fictional island in the 1995 "Watergate" episode of seaQuest DSV

Literature

Solitaire (comics), a 1993 superhero comic book series

Solitaire (Eskridge novel), a 2002 novel by Kelley Eskridge

Solitaire (audio drama), a 2010 Doctor Who audiobook

Solitaire (Oseman novel), a 2014 novel by Alice Oseman

Music

The Solitaires, an American doo wop group

Solitaire (musician) or James Callahan (born 1965), a 1980s synth pop performer

Solitair (born 1975), hip-hop MC and producer from Toronto

Solitaire, a dance music duo consisting of Dave Taylor and Pump Friction

Albums

Solitaire (Edenbridge album) (2010)

Solitaire (Neil Sedaka album) (1972)

Solitaire (Andy Williams album) (1973)

Solitaire (Uri Caine album) (2001)

Solitaire, a 2002 album by Doc Gynéco

Solitaire, a 2014 album by Shy'm

Songs

"The Way"/"Solitaire", a 2004 double A-side by Clay Aiken

"Solitaire" (Martine Clémenceau song) (1981), covered by Laura Branigan in 1983

"Solitaire" (Neil Sedaka song) (1972), covered by the Carpenters in 1975

"Solitaires", a 2020 song by Future

"Solitaire", a 1973 song and 1993 single by Tony Christie

"Solitaire", a 1993 song by Deep Purple from The Battle Rages On...

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The public source identifies “Solitaire (disambiguation)” as tabletop game normally played alone using a set of cards, tiles, stones or other pieces. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Solitaire, disambiguation and tabletop.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 1991, 2008, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Solitaire, disambiguation and tabletop providing the first useful test.
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