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HOYLE CLASSIC CARD GAMES
Hoyle Classic Card Games was a part of the Sierra game series licensed by playing card maker Hoyle. This was the 4th installment in the series, released in 1993 by Sierra.

In Hoyle Classic Card Games, you can pick from Crazy Eights, Gin Rummy, Old Maid, Cribbage, Bridge, Hearts, Euchre, and Klondike (Solitaire). In multiplayer games, such as Crazy Eights, Gin Rummy, or Old Maid, you could play against up to four friends, or you could pick from a cast of Sierra computer game characters complete with voice acting to play against such as: Mother Goose (Mixed up Mother Goose), King Graham (King's Quest), Rosella (King's Quest), Larry Laffer (Leisure Suit Larry), Passionate Patty (Leisure Suit Larry), Jones (Jones in the Fast Lane), Sonny Bonds (Police Quest), Rodger Wilco (Space Quest), Laura Bow (BeQuest and Daggers of Ra) - just to name the good guys, as there's an entire roster of bad guys to play against as well. Pretty impressive for a game from 1993.

The Series continued in 1995 with the Hoyle Card Games (5) release for Windows 3.1x/Windows 95, which I also have (and will end up on the page at some point). I also have the previous original 1988 release: Hoyle Book of Games on my Tandy 1000. This series is another one of those "underware" titles that has been forgotten to the sands of time, likely due to it's status as one of those games that just takes other games from another platform or actual physical gaming and puts it on a computer.
Stumbling into Pre-Sleep Relaxation - My Experiences
This is one of those games I got into more recently, to relax. See, I used to have the Sierra 3-pack box that had the original release of Hoyle Book of Games on it (the one I ran on my Tandy 1000), and I also have a newer version for Windows 3.x/Windows 95 as well. So I checked this one out and found this is the version I like the most to relax playing Solitaire with.

Probably the biggest motivation though was that this version is compaltible with Windows Sound System in DOS, of which Sierra's drivers seem to be the best for DOS support of WSS chipsets, as my NEC Versa M/75 - my main "retro" laptop, has a Crystal CS4231-KQ WSS coompatible audio chipset. So I'm actually able to enjoy it, while Sierra characters yell out the various suits during a game of Crazy Eights or Old Maid.