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Are you stuck in your favorite past time games? Just follow the instruction and never lose again with these cheats!

Solitaire

You can actually turn only one card at a time in 3 cards over mode. Just hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click and the card! This will turn only one card instead of 3.

Free Cell

Can't win? Hold down Ctrl+Shift+F10. A pop-up menu can let you choose whether you want to win, lose or restart.

Minesweeper

  • Hold down the Shift key and type XYZZY. Release Shift and then press it again. Now whenever your cursor is over the top of a mine, the top left pixel on your screen shows as a black dot.
  • This is more towards an undocumented feature than an egg. Open up winmine.ini. At the end of the file, add the line Sound=3. Run the game. If you have your PC speaker on, you will hear something the next time you hit a mine.

Hearts

This Egg works only with the Windows 95 release of Hearts. Run Regedit.exe (the Win95 Registry editor, located in your Win95 folder) and go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Hearts. Now, you might be wondering why this teeny game needs its own registry entry (??). In the right hand pane add a new key (string) and name it zb (no quotes). Give it a value of 42. Now run Mshearts.exe and during gameplay press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F12 the same time.

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