Windows comes with a small number of games you can play whenever you're in the mood for a little fun. This article gives a brief overview of each party. For more specific instructions, click View help on the game's Help menu.
The games that come with Windows are in the Games, the central location for games on your computer.
To open the Games folder, click Start, click Programs, click Games, then click Games. To open one of the games in the folder, double-click its icon.
Note
Windows games are not installed by default in Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Enterprise. To install, click the Start button, click Settings, click Control Panel, click Programs, then click Turn Windows features or not. Windows Characteristics in the dialog box, select the Games, then click OK. If you are prompted to enter an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Chess Titans
Chess Titans brings the classic strategy game of chess to life in three dimensions and motion graphics. Highlighted squares show where you can move your pieces. Choose a porcelain, marble, wood or cardboard, to rotate freely and the Board of Directors of the section you want.
Number of players: 1 or 2
Level of difficulty: 1 (beginner) to 10 (expert)
Typical playing time: 10 to 60 minutes
Note
Chess Titans is not included in Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Starter.
Mahjong Titans
Mahjong Titans is a solitaire game with tiles. Remove pairs of tiles from the board, if you can remove all the tiles, you win! Choose from four different models of tiles, six different configurations of tiles and different backgrounds. This game is different from the old game of mahjong, even if it uses tiles.
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: Varies according to the provision of tiles
Typical playing time: 10 to 30 minutes
Note
Mahjong Titans is not included in Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Starter.
InkBall
In InkBall, your goal is to bounce balls into the holes of the same color. Direct balls deflect the blows with ink that you write with your mouse or tablet pen. Do not let any balls go in the wrong hole, or the game is over!
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: beginner, novice, intermediate, advanced, expert
Typical playing time: one to ten minutes
Note
InkBall is not included in Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Starter.
Minesweeper
In Minesweeper, you must locate all mines hidden under a playground of squares. Click on a square to reveal what it contains. Some squares contain numbers that will help you find nearby mines. But beware, if you click a square with a mine, all mine on the edge of the explosion and the game is over!
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
Typical playing time: one to ten minutes
Purble Place
Purble Place is actually three games in one: Comfy Cakes, Purble Shop, and Purble pairs. At the beginner level, these whimsical games are particularly suited for children, help teach skills in memory, pattern recognition and reasoning. The levels of difficulty higher to challenge players of all ages.
Comfy Cakes. This game puts you in the kitchen Purble bakery, where you must fill out an order from a batch of cakes. The bakery customers are very particular, you will need to make cakes exactly the order, with the right combination of shapes, batters, fillings, icings and the decorations. Working quickly because the cakes keep coming!
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
Typical playing time: one to five minutes
Purble Shop. This game tests your skills of deduction. Your goal is to make your game face Purble Purble the mystery behind the curtain. Choose hair, eyes, nose, lips and on the shelves, then learn how-but-not characteristics that you are right!
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
Typical playing time: one to five minutes
Purble pairs. In this game, your goal is to find all the pairs of images on the edge of time. Flip on a tile to reveal an image, and then try to find her match. Use a "preview" token to get an overview of all the tiles on the board.
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
Typical playing time: one to ten minutes
Card Games
Windows comes with four card games: Hearts, and three variations of Solitaire (a family of single-player card game). For each game, you can choose from a variety of models of bridge and circles.
FreeCell
FreeCell is a variant of solitaire. To win, you must make four piles of cards, one for each color, in ascending order (As the King). To build these batteries, you draw seven columns of cards that you build in descending order, alternating red and black. Use the "free cells" to hold cards temporarily.
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: a level
Typical playing time: 10 to 20 minutes
Hearts
Hearts is a card game that you play in the series against three opponents. Avoid adverse cards all hearts and Queen of Spades-unless you plan to turn the moon! The player with the lowest score wins.
Number of players: 1 (against 3 opponents)
Level of difficulty: a level
Typical playing time: 10 to 20 minutes
Solitaire
Solitaire is based on the most popular variant of Solitaire, Klondike. To win, you must build four stacks of cards, one for each combination, in ascending order (as the King). To build these batteries, you draw seven columns of cards that you build in descending order, alternating red and black.
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: a level
Typical playing time: 5 to 15 minutes
Spider Solitaire
Spider Solitaire is a solitaire variant that uses two decks' worth of cards (104 cards). The goal is to remove all cards of ten cells at the top of the window in the fewest strokes. Remove cards by a stack full in descending order (king to ACE).
Number of players: 1
Level of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
Typical playing time: 5 to 15 minutes
Other games
When you're ready for more entertainment, there are thousands of games available for Windows, either for purchase or for free. Categories include puzzle and word games, action games, adventure games, sports games, card games, simulation games and strategy games.
To learn more about the games available for Windows, go to the Microsoft Windows Gaming website.
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