Either way, these are unquestionably all popular classics in their own right, and can be highly recommended. Others don't really fit in any of the above-mentioned families. Some of these do fit loosely in one of the above categories, but deserve special mention. While these ten games represent the most popular families of builder games, there are some other very popular builder games in the world of solitaire that you really should know about as well. Besides these three, there are a number of other popular builder games, each of which represents its own family of games: Baker's Dozen, Canfield, La Belle Lucie (Fan games), Beleaguered Castle (Castle games), Sir Tommy, Yukon, and the popular two-deck game Forty Thieves, which has inspired many variants. The three most popular solitaire games in the world - Klondike, Spider, and FreeCell - and the many games closely related to them, all belong in this category. It's a popular archetype, and means that in these games players are trying to arrange all the cards in ascending order from Ace through to King, for each of the four separate suits.
Most solitaire card games with a standard deck of playing cards classify as 'builder' games.
