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Goodsol Newsletter #376 - Happy Holidays!

Goodsol Newsletter #376 Happy Holidays!   In this newsletter I feature one of the new games in version 20.1, Indian Thirteen, and we have a holiday sale. As the holiday season continues, tell your friends about our games! It might help them get through these lockdowns, and help us too! - - Goodsol Holiday Sale - 20% Off! Pretty Good Solitaire (and all our other Windows and Mac games) are on sale this week only - 20% off! Just order from our site with the coupon code HOLIDAY to get a 20% discount off the regular price of the game. All of our Windows games at Goodsol.com/wingames.html or all of our Mac games at Goodsol.com/macgames.html are 20% off if you use the coupon code HOLIDAY on the order between now and the end of Tuesday, December 22nd. In addition to Pretty Good Solitaire, our other games such as Pretty Good MahJongg and Action Solitaire are also 20% off. Direct Link to buy Pretty Good Solitaire with 20% off: https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/instant/pgsolitaire?coupon=holiday Direct Link to buy Pretty Good MahJongg with 20% off: https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/instant/mahjongg?coupon=holiday -- Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows - Goodsol.com/download Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows recently updated to version 20.1 with 1040 games and Daily Quests - our 25th year! This version has 10 new games including Challenge Klondike, Corona Rush and Indian Thirteen. If you haven't downloaded the new version yet, give it a try! Download Now!   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code again, you can always request that your code be sent to you: Goodsol.com/regusers.html.   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 11.0 Big Sur.   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 11.0 Big Sur.   Featured Game - Indian Thirteen Indian Thirteen is a new game in version 20.1 of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows. It is a variation of the classic game Indian Patience. There are eight foundation piles that are built from Aces to Kings as usual. The object of the game is to move all of the cards to the foundation piles. There are 13 tableau piles, instead of the ten in Indian Patience. At the start of the game three cards are dealt to each pile, one face down and two face up. Building is down by any suit but the same. Only one card at a time may be moved. When a face down card is exposed in the tableau (by removal of the cards above it), that card is turned face up and becomes a protected card. Protected cards may only be moved to a foundation and no cards may be played upon them. When a protected card is moved to a foundation, the empty space will be filled from the stock with one face down card and two more face up (just like the initial deal) for as long as the stock contains the cards to do so. Protected cards remain protected until the stock is empty, then they become available for play on other tableau piles, and other cards may be played upon them. After the stock is empty, spaces may be filled by any card. The remainder of the deck forms a stock. Clicking on the stock deals one card to a waste pile. The top card of the waste pile is available for play on the foundations or tableau. There are no redeals. The protected cards give Indian Thirteen a different feel from other Forty Thieves type games. The idea of protected cards is also used in the games Indian Patience, Mumbai, Taj Mahal and Old Moon. Indian Thirteen is one of the 1040 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for Windows). 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.

How to Order Our Games as a Gift

Do you enjoy our games?  Do you want to give a copy to another person?

Here is how to do it.  Just click on one of the order links below, you can be the "Purchaser" and give a copy of a game to the "End User".

 

Order Pretty Good Solitaire as a Gift (Windows or Mac) -  $24.95:

https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/product/pgsolitaire?option=purchaser

 

Order Pretty Good MahJongg as a Gift (Windows or Mac) - $24.95:

https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/product/mahjongg?option=purchaser

 

 

Or buy one of our smaller, cheaper games:

Action Solitaire (Windows only) - $19.95:

https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/product/actionsolitaire?option=purchaser

 

Goodsol Solitaire 101 (Windows and Mac) - $19.95:

https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/product/goodsolsolitaire101?option=purchaser

 

Most Popular Solitaire (Windows and Mac) - $16.95:

https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/product/mostpopularsolitaire?option=purchaser

 

FreeCell Plus (Windows and Mac) - $9.95:

https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/product/freecellplus?option=purchaser

 

 

 

 

 

Goodsol Newsletter #375 - Corona Rush Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #375 Corona Rush Solitaire   In this newsletter I feature one of the new games in version 20.1, Corona Rush. The holiday season is continuing, be sure to order early if you order a CD - shipping, especially outside the US, is very slow because of the pandemic. Ordering and downloading is of course immediate. You can order Pretty Good Solitaire at Goodsol.com/order.html. Or see all of our Windows games at Goodsol.com/wingames.html or all of our Mac games at Goodsol.com/macgames.html. We appreciate every order we get, especially in these hard times! - - Christmas Card Set The Christmas Card Set, a card set with Christmas holiday images on the cards, can be downloaded from https://www.goodsol.com/pgs/christmas.html. Both Windows and Mac versions of the card set are available.   Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows - Goodsol.com/download Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows recently updated to version 20.1 with 1040 games and Daily Quests - our 25th year! This version has 10 new games including Challenge Klondike and Corona Rush. 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 11.0 Big Sur.   Our iPad Games - Goodsol.com/iPad Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700 games. Note: if you have updated your iPad to iOS 14.2 and any of our iPad games are crashing, just delete the app and download it again from the AppStore purchased apps section and it will work fine again.   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 11.0 Big Sur.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code again, you can always request that your code be sent to you: Goodsol.com/regusers.html.   Featured Game - Corona Rush Corona Rush is a new game in version 20.1 of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows. It is an easier variation of the Forty Thieves type game Corona. There are eight foundation piles at the top as is standard in a two deck game - build these piles in suit from Ace to King. The game is won when all of the cards are moved here. There are twelve tableau piles. Build these piles down in suit. Only one card at a time may be moved. Spaces are filled from the waste, or the stock if the waste is empty. At the start of the game three cards are dealt face up to each pile. The remainder of the cards form a stock. Turn over the stock three cards at a time to the waste by clicking during the first deal, two cards at a time during the 2nd deal, and one card at a time during the last deal. There are two redeals. Because Corona Rush allows three times through the stock (although on a limited basis the first two times), this makes it easier than the challenging game Corona which allows only one. Corona Rush is one of the 1040 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for Windows). 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.

Triple Golf

Triple Golf is one of the new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

Triple Golf is a 3 deck version of the popular game Golf.

 

Goodsol Newsletter #374 - New Game Challenge Klondike

Goodsol Newsletter #374 New Game Challenge Klondike Solitaire   In this newsletter I feature one of the new games in version 20.1, Challenge Klondike, and have news about Macs. The holiday season is starting, tell your friends about our games! It might help them get through these lockdowns, and help us too! - - Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition on Big Sur - Goodsol.com/mac Apple has finally taken macOS up to 11 with the release of the new version 11.0 Big Sur update. Unlike the troublesome Catalina update, Big Sur does not seem to be causing our games any problems. Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is currently at version 3.56 with 750 games. It works on the new Big Sur as well as older versions of macOS for those of you who do not want to update macOS yet (like myself). If you have the full version installed, just go to the Internet menu, select Download Latest Version to update the game. There will be a version with new games in 2021. Our other Mac games, Pretty Good MahJongg, Goodsol Solitaire 101, Most Popular Solitaire, and FreeCell Plus also work on Big Sur and older macOS versions - see these games at Goodsol.com/macgames.html.   Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows - Goodsol.com/download Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows recently updated to version 20.1 with 1040 games and Daily Quests - our 25th year! This version has 10 new games including Challenge Klondike. If you haven't downloaded the new version yet, give it a try! Download Now!   Our iPad Games - Goodsol.com/iPad Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700 games. Note: if you have updated your iPad to iOS 14.2 and any of our iPad games are crashing, just delete the app and download it again from the AppStore purchased apps section and it will work fine again.   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 11.0 Big Sur.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code again, you can always request that your code be sent to you: Goodsol.com/regusers.html.   Featured Game - Challenge Klondike Challenge Klondike is a new game in version 20.1 of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows. It takes the classic Windows solitaire game Klondike and makes it harder. Challenge Klondike plays exactly like the regular Klondike - you have the standard seven piles with the top card face up, you build down by alternate color, move groups of cards in sequence down by alternate color, and build the four foundation piles up in suit from Ace to King to win the game. Challenge Klondike has no KingOnly option - only Kings (or a group of cards headed by a King) can be played to an empty tableau pile. It does have the 1 card/3 card option in the Options menu - you can play with either a one card or a three card deal. What makes Challenge Klondike more difficult than regular Klondike is that all of the Aces and all of the Twos are dealt at the start of the game face down to the bottom of the rightmost piles - you must uncover those cards before you can play any cards at all to the foundations. That means that if you are unable to get at the cards at the bottom of those piles, you will not get anywhere at all in the game, let alone win. Challenge Klondike is one of the 1040 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for Windows). 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.

Triple Australian

Triple Australian is one of the new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

Triple Australian is a 3 deck version of the popular game Australian Patience.

 

SuitCell

SuitCell is one of the new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

SuitCell is the same as FreeCell, except all of the cards of the same suit are dealt to the same piles.