Goodsol Newsletter #370 - Penguin Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #370 Penguin Solitaire   In this newsletter I continue featuring classic games to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pretty Good Solitaire. This time the game is Penguin, an old favorite. Also, we are coming up on the holiday season, so we begin with the Halloween Card Set. If you are in an area still affected by the virus, please tell your friends about Pretty Good Solitaire or our other games to help them through the lockdowns. - - Halloween Card Set Boo! It's time once again for the Halloween Card Set, a card set with Halloween holiday images on the cards. The Halloween Card Set can be downloaded from https://www.goodsol.com/pgs/halloween.html. Both Windows and Mac versions of the card set are available.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code again, you can always request that your code be sent to you: https://www.goodsol.com/regusers.html.   Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows - Goodsol.com/download Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows recently updated to version 20.0 with 1030 games and Daily Quests. This 25th anniversary version has 15 new games including Quadruple FreeCell, Quadruple Demons, Persimmon, Agnes Four, Patience's Royal, and more. If you haven't downloaded the new version yet, give it a try! Download Now!   Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition - Goodsol.com/mac Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is currently at version 3.56 with 750 games. If you have the full version installed, just go to the Internet menu, select Download Latest Version to update. Version 3.56 works in the latest macOS 10.15 Catalina.   Our iPad Games - Goodsol.com/iPad Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700 games.   Pretty Good Solitaire Mini - Goodsol.com/iPhone Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 with 720 games.  Still only 99 cents.   Pretty Good MahJongg - Goodsol.com/pgmj Our companion game to Pretty Good Solitaire is Pretty Good MahJongg, solitaire with MahJongg tiles. Pretty Good MahJongg for Windows and Mac are currently have 410 games and layouts. Pretty Good MahJongg for Mac works in macOS 10.15 Catalina.   Featured Game - Penguin Penguin is a popular game of the FreeCell type. It is related to Eight Off. Like many games of the FreeCell type, it can be won nearly every time. However, impossible positions are much more common in Penguin than in FreeCell. Penguin is played with one deck. Seven cards are dealt out to seven tableau piles. The first card dealt to the first pile is the most important card, called the beak. The other three cards of the same rank as the beak are dealt to the foundation piles and are to be built up in suit (wrapping King to Ace as necessary), until each pile has 13 cards. The beak card begins the game buried underneath six other cards in the first tableau pile and must be freed so that the fourth foundation pile can be started. All of the cards start out the game face up, making Penguin an open game. The tableau piles are built down in suit, making the game more like Eight Off than FreeCell. In addition to the tableau piles, there are seven cells that can hold one card each, just like the cells in FreeCell. Penguin differs from many FreeCell type games in that you can move legal groups of cards regardless of how many empty cells there are. Therefore filling up all the cells doesn't restrict card movement as much as other games. Play consists of moving cards to the foundation and moving cards to the cells in order to build runs in the tableau. It is important to get to the beak card at the bottom of the first pile soon, but it is not necessarily the first thing you want to do. Strong players can win Penguin nearly every time, although there are a few impossible positions. Penguin was invented by David Parlett. Penguin is one of the 1030 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for Windows), one of the 750 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition, one of the 700 games in Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad, and one of the 720 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mini for iPhone. For more featured games, see the Solitaire Guide. -- Contact Us - Goodsol.com/contact.html Lost Code - Goodsol.com/regusers.html -- Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - [email protected] Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - [email protected] ©2020 Goodsol Development Inc. PO Box 9155, Springfield IL  62791 Pretty Good Solitaire, Pretty Good MahJongg, and more.  Visit us at Goodsol.com. List Archive:  View past newsletters.