Goodsol Solitaire #388 - Aces and Kings Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #388 Aces and Kings Solitaire - - Goodsol Summer 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 SUMMER 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 SUMMER on the order between now and the end of Sunday, June 13th. 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=summer Direct Link to buy Pretty Good MahJongg with 20% off: https://sites.fastspring.com/goodsol/instant/mahjongg?coupon=summer -- Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows - Goodsol.com/download Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is currently at version 20.1 with 1040 games and Daily Quests - now in our 26th 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!   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 recently updated to version 1.61 with 750 games.   Pretty Good Solitaire Mini - Goodsol.com/iPhone Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 with 720 games.   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 - Aces and Kings Aces and Kings is a challenging and original 2 deck solitaire game with a simple layout that was invented by me back in 1996. At the start of the game, four cards are dealt out one each to four tableau piles. Then 26 more cards are dealt out 13 each to two reserve piles. All of the cards are face up. The remainder of the cards in the two decks form a stock, which will be turned over one at a time to a waste pile. There are eight foundation piles. Four piles will be built up regardless of suit beginning with Aces up to Kings, one pile for each suit, and the other four piles will be built down regardless of suit starting with Kings down to Aces, also one pile for each suit. The object is to move all of the cards to the foundations. Play begins by trying to found any available Aces or Kings. You can move any of the four cards in the tableau to the foundations, if possible. When a card is moved from the tableau, the space is filled immediately by the top card of the stock. There is no building on the tableau. The top card of each reserve pile is also available for play on the foundations. 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. You can play only once through the stock, there is no redeal. Because there are 13 cards buried in each reserve pile, it is important to play cards from the reserves as much as possible. The key to winning is to make use of the fact that there is no restriction on moving cards between foundation piles. That is, when you are building the Ace piles up and the King piles down, when they meet you can move cards from one to the other. This is a great way to play off cards that couldn't otherwise be played. When the foundation piles meet, look for ways to move the cards between piles so that you can play off cards from either the reserves or the tableau. Aces and Kings is a very difficult game to win, even the best players rarely win better than 10% of the time. Most players only win about 5% of the time. Aces and Kings is one of the 1040 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for Windows), one of the 750 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition and 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] ©2021 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.