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Goodsol Newsletter #371
Australian Patience Solitaire
In this newsletter I have another new video, this time about how to use the tile matching layout editor in Pretty Good Mahjongg. The featured game is Australian Patience.
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How to Use the Layout Editor in Pretty Good MahJongg - New Video
I have a new video - How to Use the Tile Matching Layout Editor in Pretty Good MahJongg. This video shows how to use the Layout Editor in Pretty Good MahJongg to create your own tile matching layouts. Pretty Good MahJongg is at Goodsol.com/pgmj - Windows and Mac versions available.
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.
Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700 games.
Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 with 720 games. Still only 99 cents.
If you need your code again, you can always request that your code be sent to you: https://www.goodsol.com/regusers.html.
Featured Game - Australian Patience
Australian Patience is a solitaire game that combines elements from the popular games Klondike, also known as the standard Windows solitaire game, and Yukon.
To begin the game, 28 cards are dealt out to the tableau, four cards each to seven piles. All of the cards are face up. The remainder of the cards form a stock, which will be turned over one card at a time to a waste pile. The 28 card layout is the same number of cards as Klondike, although the fact that all the piles have the same number of cards is different from Klondike.
There are four foundation piles, each pile built up in suit from Ace to King, as in both Klondike and Yukon. The object of the game is to move all of the cards to these piles.
The seven tableau piles are built down by suit. Empty spaces in the tableau may only be filled by a King or a group of cards headed by a King. Among the seven tableau piles you can move groups of cards regardless of any sequence. This means that any face up card, no matter how deeply buried, can be moved by picking it and all the cards on top of it up together. This is like Yukon.
When you have no moves, you can turn over the top card of the stock to the waste pile. The top card of the waste pile is available for play on the foundations or on a tableau pile. You can play only once through the stock, there is no redeal.
Australian Patience is harder than Yukon primarily because of the stock and waste piles. Needed cards are often buried in the waste pile and unavailable. A low ranked card that gets buried deep in the waste pile will usually spell doom for the game. To win, you need to get as many cards out of the waste pile as possible. Average players can win Australian Patience only about 20% of the time, while very good players can get their winning percentage up to around 33%.
It's origin is in Australia, hence it's name. The game made its first appearance anywhere in Pretty Good Solitaire in 1996 from a suggestion by a user.
Australian Patience 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.
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