Solved games

keeping in mind I've only had this thing a month, in windows XP there were several games built into the OS. card
games, even a pin ball game. now are there such games in this windows 8? or do I need to pay for everything?

If you go into the Windows Store, you will find thousands of games, most of which are free. Some of which are very cheap, and some of which are not as cheap. Microsoft has a number of games they provide via the store, such as Solitaire, Minsweeper, Backgammon, Mahjong, etc...