Sometimes the traditional games are the best and a lovely wooden solitaire set would be a good buy.
I remember receiving a red and blue plastic solitaire set one Christmas in the stocking at the end of my bed. Plastic - well, it was the seventies, and what other colour combination would be suitable for a Crystal Palace supporter? I'm not sure what happened to it, but I do remember being mesmerised by it and determined to end up with a single peg in the central hole. Or at times not ending up with an isolated peg in one of the corners would have done...
I didn't realise there are two layouts of the solitaire board, although I'm pretty sure I've seen both types. There's a cross shape which is the English version and a more rounded shape which is the European version. Plus the first evidence of the game can be traced back to the court of Louis XIV and specifically 1697 where a description of the board, rules and sample problems appeared in the French literary magazine Mercure galant.