Are you Solitaire?

Congratulations, bob zea! You displayed admirable, um, forebearance and used 8 questions to discover the correct answer.

Patience (or Solitaire in the U.S.) is a genre of tabletop games, consisting of card games that can be played by a single player using a standard deck of 52 cards, although they can also be played in a multiplayer or competitive fashion. Both Solitaire and Patience are sometimes used to refer specifically to the Klondike form of the game. The purpose of the game generally involves manipulating a layout of cards with a goal of sorting them in some manner.

The game is most likely German or Scandinavian in origin. The earliest known recording occurred in 1783 in the German game anthology Das neue Königliche L'Hombre-Spiel. It became popular in France in the early 19th century, reaching England and America in the latter half.

Versions of the game have been available on virtually every computer platform, and now hand-held devices, since the early 1980s. In some casinos, variations of Patience/Solitaire (such as Canfield or Las Vegas Solitaire) are offered as a gambling option.

Wikipedia link

Comment: Question 8 ("Are you something the average person might use daily outside of their career/job?") had me tied up in knots for a while because of all its qualifying words. Does the average person play the game daily? Almost certainly not. But might they? In principle, yes. And I'm sure plenty play it while they're supposed to be concentrating on their job.




The Klondike version of Patience or Solitaire

I'M GLAD IT'S OVER!!!

A game?!! That was no where even close to the possibilities I was thinking of last night.

Thanks to everyone who built on the logic and provided clues. Especially the ones regarding games.

Now I won't have to dream about WAI's tonight.

[raindrops]

This round, bob zea discovered in 8 questions that we were looking for a card game, Solitaire or Patience, and receives 40 wrz$.
workerbee tortured you for 63 questions and receives 315 wrz$
Congrats, you two!

Now bob zea is invited to start the next round with the subject he sent me...

Round 44

Questions & Answers:

1. Are you a real or imaginary person? No
2. Are you an object, (i.e. with molecular mass)? No
3. Are you an animal? No
4. Are you man-made (as opposed to natural)? Yes
5. Are you a state of mind? No
6. Are you an abstract concept or idea? No
7. Are you a building? No
8. Are you an activity or event? No
9. Are you a liquid? No
10. Are you connected with computer? Yes
11. Are you a real or imaginary place? No
12. Are you an idea? No
13. Are you a computer program? No
14. Are you related to the internet? Yes
15. Are you a web page? No
16. are you mobilism? No
17. Are you a process such as a search engine? No
18. Are you a social media application ? No
19. Are you an internet protocol? No
20. Are you e-mail / related to e-mail? No
21. Are you antivirus? No
22. Are you to do with coding/protocol? EDIT: A simple Yes or No answer is debatable
23. Are you http://? No (....you forgot the rest of the website j/k)
24. Are you a markup or programming language? No
25. Are you some type of software? No
26. Are you HTML? No
27. Are you a standard (example: Web 2.0)? No
28. Are you used to create something? No
29. Are you an IP address? No
30. Are you a SOAP ?Simple Object Access Protocol? No
31. did you exist before 2005? Yes
32. Are you Java? No
33. Are you DNS? No
34. Are you a form of wireless communication? No
35. are you something the average internet user will see directly (as opposed to being part of the underlying structure such as, say, IP addresses or Java)? Yes
36. Are you form of communication? No
37. Are you the web browser Internet Explorer? No
38. Are you Wikipedia? No
39. Are you useful to the average internet user? A simple Yes or No answer is impossible.
40. Are you a game? I suppose it's environmentally conscious to recycle WAI rounds. ... but No.
41. are you commonly used on smartphones (as opposed to computers or tablets)? A simple Yes or No is impossible. EDIT: I had to change my initial response on this after doing a little more research...and in light of the way the question was worded
42. Are you an online chatroom ? No
43. Are you only related to the Internet? No
44. Are you a company or other form of collective organization? No
45. Are you email? No
46. does the answer involve a brand name? No
47. Are you a website? No (see #43)
48. are you the address bar? No
49. are you a new tab/browser window? No
50. Are you translator (e.g. Google translator)? No
51. Are you a unit of measurement? No
52. Are you type of data? Yes (Dayum, you're good )
53. Are you the Windows Desktop? No
54. Are you alphanumeric characters? No
55. Are you a bitcoin? No
56. Are you a branch of knowledge that employs statistical analysis? No
57. are you a bit, byte or some multiple of them (kilobyte, etc.)? No
58. If Firefox is on factory setting, could you be seen directly on screen when opening a new window? My provisional answer is No. (I'm trying to remember what a new default window on FF looks like and I think it is set to the Mozilla home page?)
59. Are you a cursor on the screen?
60. Are you UTC? No
61. Is your type of data primarily backwards looking / historical? No
62. are you a file type? Yesserrie
63. Are you PDF? No
64. Are you GIF? No
65. Are you an .ePub file? No, but good guess considering where we are
66. are you used mostly for encoding images? No
67. is the file type commonly created by ordinary users? No EDIT: I changed my answer because I realize this depends on the timeframe you're talking about, and these days, the answer would probably be No. This is based on my current understanding of the situation and I hope I'm correct.
68. Are you an archive file like .zip or .rar? No
69. Are you a FAT file? No
70. Are you an office type file, e.g doc, ppt, XML etc? No
71. Are you a .wav file? No
72. Are you an MP3? YES!!!
is smiling with good reason.

Note: I changed the answer to 22. The slash mark was confusing and I went with my first instinct, but I realize now that was not the best answer.

Are you a real or imaginary person?

[profprofessorson]

Are you an object, (i.e. with molecular mass)?

Are you an animal?

[coolcat59]

Are you man-made (as opposed to natural)?

[Pericles]

Are you a state of mind?

Are you an abstract concept or idea?

Are you a building?

[avoran]

Are you an activity or event?

Are you a liquid?

[agamal007]

Are you connected with computer?

Are you a real or imaginary place?