I have ranked these in order of how many hours I have spent playing them. Some of them, Sim City and Civilization for example, I have spent many consecutive hours playing. Others, like the Solitaire games, have occupied my time for 20 minutes or so on numerous occasions. I have never owned a computer with greatly advanced video capabilities, so I have never really played some of the action or first person shooter games that most people seem to find enjoyable.

Interestingly, four card games, three of them solitaire games, made the list. If you had spent as much time as I had playing cards games, you would certainly appreciate that the computer handles the mundane details of shuffling and dealing so that you can spend more time actually playing.