Leave it to the Spy to bury the headline lead that the designer is none other than former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld who periodically lives outside the town of St. Michaels. And the app is called Churchill Solidare.
According to Forbes contributor Erik Kain:
Rumsfeld, along with Churchill Heritage Ltd, and digital agency Javelin, has just released a new mobile game, Churchill Solitaire, “the most diabolical version of Solitaire ever devised” according to the developers.
“With two decks of cards, a “Devil’s Six” row of cards, and timed scoring, there is no more strategic or addicting solitaire game on the market,” the developers claim. “Within each game, there are thousands of different paths. Only a few of them lead to victory.”
You can also level up through the ranks until finally becoming Prime Minster yourself, though only if you’re good. The app is free-to-play, but you can unlock hints for cash money.
Rumsfeld apparently learned the game while serving as Nixon’s NATO ambassador in Belgium, where he met Belgian politician and writer Andre de Staercke who had learned this version of Solitaire from Churchill himself and taught it to Rumsfeld.
“When I learned the game from my colleague at NATO, Andre de Staercke, I found it to be one of the most entertaining and strategic card games I’d ever played,” Rumsfeld said in a statement.
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