Solitaire in Windows 10 introduces a host of new features, including fullscreen video ads that cost US$10 a year to remove.

The long-standing stalwart of Windows gaming now has new visual themes, game types, achievements, and leaderboards, and plenty of opportunities to be advertised to.

Ads appear randomly between matches in the renamed Microsoft Solitaire Collection, and run for 15 to 30 seconds.

Removing the commercials requires payments of US$9.99 a year, or $1.49 for a single month.

Though Windows 8.1's Solitaire also included ads (and a paid premium version), it didn't come pre-installed, drastically reducing the likelihood of users ever playing it.

Windows 10 is available as a free upgrade from Windows 7 or 8, though apparently some features are more free-to-play than actually free.