Popular games for PC and tablet

Solitaire is a card game that you can play alone. The rules are simple: stack red and black cards alternately, starting with the highest value card and ending with the lowest. Unlock the four aces in this way and then sort the cards by suit (hearts of diamonds, clubs and spades), from lowest to highest. That can be quite difficult and the game does not always come out. A little more proficient at Solitaire? Then try one of the other variants of this game, such as Spider or FreeCell.

There is a wide range of free and paid solitaire apps. So if you don’t like the app below, there are plenty of others to choose from.

• Solitaire for android devices.
• Solitaire for iPhone or iPad.
• Solitaire on the mac.
• Solitaire on Windows 10 computer: The Microsoft Solitaire Collection comes by default on Windows computers. Click the Start button > Microsoft Solitaire Collection > Klondike. ‘Spider’, ‘FreeCell’, ‘Pyramid’ and ‘TriPeaks’ are other free card games from the Solitaire series. Some variants are more challenging than Klondike, the classic game.

Anyone who has ever seen the Flemish TV program Bloks knows roughly how Tetris works. Blocks of different colors and shapes fall down slowly. The player has to form horizontal rows of those blocks by rotating and sliding them to fit into each other. When all the squares of a row are filled, he disappears and the player gets points. The more rows are filled, the faster the blocks fall.

• Tetris on android devices.
• Tetris on iPhone and iPad.
• You can play Tetris on the computer online, for example via Tetrisgames.nl. Play with the arrows on the keyboard. Press the up arrow to rotate the block. With the other arrows you move the blocks to the left or right.

Rummikub is of course a party game. But online it is fine to play alone. Then you play against the computer whenever you want. You will receive a rack with stones, with numbers from one to thirteen, in different colors. Make rows of at least three stones with it every turn. A row can consist of consecutive numbers, but also of stones with the same number in a different color. If you are unable to make a row, you must take a stone. Whoever gets rid of all his stones first, wins the game.

• Rummikub on android devices.
• Rummikub on iPhone and iPad.
• Rummikub on the computer (Mac). For an explanation of this program, read the tip ‘App tip: Rummikub’.
• Rummikub on the Windows computer: Microsoft has created its own computer version of the game called ‘Rummi’. The menu is in English. Download the program from the Microsoft Store > To download > No thanks > Play.

Three times the word value or twice the letter value… You probably know it from the board game Scrabble, where you form words on a game board. Since 2010 there is a digital version under the name Wordfeud. In this language game you have to form words with seven random letters that are on your digital word board. All letters have a specific value. The game board has special spaces that double or triple this value. Play against friends or against random opponents and chat with each other during gameplay.

• Wordfeud on android devices.
• Wordfeud on iPad or iPhone.
  

Sudoku is a Japanese crossword puzzle that does not work with words, but with numbers. A Sodoku puzzle consists of nine blocks of nine squares. In each block, enter the numbers 1 through 9, but these numbers may only appear once in each row, column, and block. Solving Sudoku puzzles does not require mathematical knowledge, but logical insight.

• sudoku on android devices.
• sudoku on iPad and iPhone.
• You can play Sudoku on the computer online at sudokunet.nl.

Read the tip ‘Sudoku’ for an explanation of how the above apps work.

Besides Sudoku, many other types of puzzles are available digitally. Think of crossword puzzles and cryptograms. Read more about this in the article ‘Puzzling on the Internet’.