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New Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition v3.7 with 900 Games

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is now available!

This new version adds 100 new games, bringing the total to 900.

The trial version can be downloaded from https://www.goodsol.com/mac

If you have previously ordered, you can download the new version by going to the Internet menu at the top of the screen, select "Download Latest Version". If you purchased from the Mac App Store, this version will be updated in the store soon.

Important note: This version requires at least macOS 10.15 Catalina.

 

Titan and Robin find homes!

Two kittens, Titan and Robin, have found homes!  We'll miss them, but they found a home together!

New Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows v22.1 with 1070 Games

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is now available!

Version 22.1 is available for download from Goodsol.com/download.html

Version 22.1 contains 10 new games:

The 10 New Games

Agnes Spider - A version of Agnes Two with some rules from Spider.

Bouquet - a version of Flower Garden with 7 tableau piles.

Closed FreeCell - a variation of FreeCell with face down cards (not an open game).

Demonic Fan - a harder version of Demon Fan.

Dorset - an easier version of Somerset.

Fairbanks - an easier version of Alaska, a Yukon type game.

Four Colours Plus - a version of Four Colours with an extra tableau pile to make it easier.

Hastings - a harder version of the very easy game Fortune's Favor.

Peekaboo - a harder version of Open Peek, an Osmosis type game.

Stop - an extremely difficult to win version of Octagon.

Version 22.1 is available for download from Goodsol.com/download.html

Version 22.1 contains 10 new games:

The 10 New Games

Agnes Spider - A version of Agnes Two with some rules from Spider.

Bouquet - a version of Flower Garden with 7 tableau piles.

Closed FreeCell - a variation of FreeCell with face down cards (not an open game).

Demonic Fan - a harder version of Demon Fan.

Dorset - an easier version of Somerset.

Fairbanks - an easier version of Alaska, a Yukon type game.

Four Colours Plus - a version of Four Colours with an extra tableau pile to make it easier.

Hastings - a harder version of the very easy game Fortune's Favor.

Peekaboo - a harder version of Open Peek, an Osmosis type game.

Stop - an extremely difficult to win version of Octagon.

Goodbye to Puck

We said goodbye to Puck today.  He is off to his new home where hopefully he will have a good life.  Two male kittens, Titan and Robin, are still looking for homes.

Kittens Available

The kittens I captured are now available for adoption at good homes!

For the story of their capture, see Kittens.  And then Kittens Update.

The 3 male kittens, Titan, Puck, and Robin are available in the Springfield IL area to a good home.  They are very friendly and good with people and other cats. Contact me at [email protected] to adopt!

Kitten Update

The kittens are getting bigger and getting near big enough to be adopted.

This is Titan.  He is a friendly rascal.

 

Next is Puck, if anything even friendlier than Titan.

 

 

And Robin, the last of the 3 friendly boys.

 

Last but not least is the girl, Ginger.

 

The mama cat still comes around to our backyard for food.  Some Trap-Neuter-Release people in the neighborhood are going to try to trap her, but that has been a bit delayed as a really bad storm (a "derecho") came through last week and completely disrupted everything here.

We have possible homes for a couple of the kittens, but we may be looking for more homes in the Springfield IL area soon.

Kittens

Last year I captured a kitten in our backyard.  This was Smokey, who is now 1 year old and a rascal.

This year I captured 4 kittens from under our deck.  They have the same mother as Smokey.

 

We have been bottle feeding the kittens (although they are almost off formula now).  We will not be keeping these kittens, as we are full up on cats.  When they are old enough, we will be looking to find good homes for them.  There are 3 males and one female.

 

The 3 males are very friendly.  The female was captured 5 days after the others, so she isn't as socialized yet, but she is coming along.

 

The mother is a very good looking Siamese feral cat.  Here she is outside with Smokey inside.

New Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows v22.0 with 1060 Games

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is now available!

Version 22.0 is available for download from Goodsol.com/download.html

Version 22.0 contains 10 new games:

The 10 New Games

Cloud Cell- a variation of Josephine with a cell that was created with the Wizard.

Echo - a Spider type game created with the Wizard.

Fan Nine - a Fan type game with 9 piles created with the Wizard.

Fhantom - another Fan type game created with the Wizard.

Ground Spider- a variation of Grounds for Divorce and Spider created with the Wizard.

Hercules - a two deck variation of Gargantua created with the Wizard.

Jumbo FreeCell- a two deck version of FreeCell created with the Wizard.

Number Eleven - an eleven pile version of Number Ten created with the Wizard.

Ten by Three - a FreeCell variation with ten tableau piles and three cells.

Winter Squash - a variation of Pumpkin created with the Wizard.

Version 22.0 is available for download from Goodsol.com/download.html

Version 22.0 contains 10 new games:

The 10 New Games

Cloud Cell- a variation of Josephine with a cell that was created with the Wizard.

Echo - a Spider type game created with the Wizard.

Fan Nine - a Fan type game with 9 piles created with the Wizard.

Fhantom - another Fan type game created with the Wizard.

Ground Spider- a variation of Grounds for Divorce and Spider created with the Wizard.

Hercules - a two deck variation of Gargantua created with the Wizard.

Jumbo FreeCell- a two deck version of FreeCell created with the Wizard.

Number Eleven - an eleven pile version of Number Ten created with the Wizard.

Ten by Three - a FreeCell variation with ten tableau piles and three cells.

Winter Squash - a variation of Pumpkin created with the Wizard.

Smokey Caturday

He did what?! #Caturday #CatsOfTwitter pic.twitter.com/TN22XPe0Sm

— Thomas Warfield (@goodsolitaire) November 12, 2022

Friday CatBlogging - Smokey and Bandit

A good day to just sit. #cats #CatsofTwitter pic.twitter.com/8PFbM45cRH

— Thomas Warfield (@goodsolitaire) November 11, 2022

More Smokey

It's hard to get a picture of our new kitten Smokey since she won't stay still very long.  But here's one that even shows her white spot.  She is 2.5 months in this picture.

Meet Smokey

We have acquired a new kitten!  We were not intending to have a new kitten, but a new kitten had us.

The short version of the story is that a Siamese cat has been coming into our yard regularly for months.  One day, she brought a kitten with her. It was clear that she had these kittens very nearby.  Six days later, the kitten came into our yard and I grabbed it.  I estimate that it was about 3 weeks old at the time.

For the first week or so we had to bottle feed the kitten, but then she transitioned to wet food.  The kitten is black except for a white spot under her chin.  We named her Smokey.  It's hard to get pictures of her because she won't stay still, but here are a few:

 

 

There is more to the story.  Our big question was, are there any more kittens?  It turns out the answer is yes, there is apparently one more kitten.   So far, we have been unable to capture the other kitten (or the mother, who we would not want to capture until we got all the kittens).  The mother is still coming into our yard, so the story isn't over yet.  

But for now, Smokey is an extremely friendly and active kitten, although she is all claws and teeth.  More to come.

Details about Pretty Good Solitaire Mini v1.1's Development

My programmer for Pretty Good Solitaire Mini has done a long blog post about all the trials and issues involved in the v1.1 update:https://t.co/RL5op7t9zk#gamedev #indiedev
short version: Apple sucks for indie developers

— Thomas Warfield (@goodsolitaire) January 13, 2022

New Pretty Good Solitaire Mini for iPhone v1.1 with 800 Games

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire Mini for iPhone is now available.  Version 1.1 contains 80 new games, bringing the total number of games to 800.  These are the same 800 games that are in the iPad version and the Mac version.

Pretty Good Solitaire Mini is on the AppStore on an iPhone, or see https://www.goodsol.com/iphone .

 

New Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows v21.0 with 1050 Games

After a long delay, a new version of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is now available!

Version 21.0 is available for download from Goodsol.com/download.html

Version 21.0 contains 10 new games:

The 10 New Games

Buffett - a very difficult variation of Minerva.

Camel Spider - a Spider type game with a tableau like Thieves of Egypt.

Gray Tabby - a one deck version of Lady Jane.

Klonfield - a Klondike and Canfield mixture similar to Cerulean..

Magnus - a three deck version of Carlton.

Seven by Two - a FreeCell variation with seven tableau piles and two cells.

Six by Three - a FreeCell variation with six tableau piles and three cells.

Sixty Knights - a variation of the Forty Thieves game Rank and File.

Ten by Four - a FreeCell variation with ten tableau piles and four cells.

Triskaide - a FreeCell variation with 13 tableau piles and one cell.