klondike_01A POST I PUBLISHED at the end of December 2014 has (surprisingly) been my most viewed in 2015 – Why Dating is like Minesweeper.

Following in the same vein I decided to compare the bane of most single people’s lives to another ageless game that dominated my teenage years – Solitaire.

The game came pre-installed with the Reid families first PC (around 1998). The four pillars that were to support my nocturnal gaming marathon sessions were Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts and FreeCell.

I couldn’t make head nor tail of the last two and Minesweeper made me angry (damn mines!), so Solitaire sucked up my gaming hours especially when the Final Fantasy games couldn’t be read because of a hairline scratch.

I was bloody awful at dating back then. I was terrified of women. I’m probably only slightly better now one and a half decades on.

But back then?…Christ. Is it any wonder I got into the ‘Game’ and became a fan-boy for the PUA (Pick-Up Artist) movement bleaching my hair blonde and piercing an eyebrow in the process (‘peacocking’ as it was known in the community).

I wish I had used the skills learned from Solitaire to better educate myself on dating. A dose of reality when it was needed to tame the wild buck in me. Nevertheless, here are the similarities I found between Dating and Solitaire:

And finally, the most important lesson to be learnt from Solitaire that could be adapted to dating:

image attribution iversoftgames.com

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  1. I used to play Solitaire with Vegas scoring switched on so there was a target there to break even…and preferably come out on top. I am sure there are euphemisms in there somewhere. And on a more serious note I was fantastic at minesweeper although I can’t recall my record.

    1. Not great Tric! Though it’s mainly due to me flitting around too much. If I had stayed in Ireland in the decade that was my twenties I probably would have been a lot further along, but you know what they say – a rolling stone gathers no girlfriend. Or words to that effect! 🙂