What's with Spider Solitaire in Windows XP?

I think it was in ME that the easy mode was incorporated into Spider
Solitaire in Windows; that's all cards are the same suit. Maybe it
was in 98, too, but it started out in difficult.

Initially, easy was easy. You could win at least 4 out of 5 games.
And get down to the table before adding cards in 1 out of 10, if not 1
in 5.

Somewhere about service pack 2, the whole game changed. Now, I'm
lucky if I can win 1 in 5, or have more than two plays at start.

And it's not just built-in Windows games. There's a Las Vegas Casino
Pack, by Swift or one of those companies, that includes something like
8 solitaire games. One's called Friday the Thirteenth. Under Win98,
I may lose 1 in 10, and never more than two in a row. With XP, I've
had a bad luck streak of 5 out of 7.

(I used to dual boot XP and 98, so I have proved this to be true.)

There's also Gamehouse's Addiction solitaire. I used to be able to
get play twenty hands in. Now I'm lucky if I can get to three before
I lose.

One last thing. Tai-Pei. MicroSoft's own free Entertainment Pack
trail Mahjongg game (misspellings all over). Each game is numbered.
In 98, the numbers were zero to somewhere in the 30,000's. In XP, the
numbers went up. (I was trying to win all of them. It was taking me
years. Then everything changed.)

(You know where Bill Gates got the name MicroSoft? It was what the
girls called him in high school.)



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