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Goodsol Newsletter #398
Cruel Solitaire
This newsletter looks at the game Cruel. Also, new versions of Pretty Good Solitaire for both Mac and Windows are coming soon. The Mac game is in testing and the Windows game will soon be in testing.
Note for Australian users: It seems we can not ship CDs to Australia right now. Therefore, if you buy any of our games, the CD option will show a price of zero. This is because we were unable to find a way to get the option deleted entirely for Australia. It just means that if you are in Australia and select the CD option while ordering, the shipping fee will not be added to the order and no CD will be shipped, since we can't send one there. You can of course still order the game and download it, since downloading is still allowed in Australia. This will continue until such time that we are able to ship to Australia again (and who knows when that will be).
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Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is currently at version 20.1 with 1040 games and Daily Quests. 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.
Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad recently updated to version 1.61 with 750 games.
Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 with 720 games.
Our companion game to Pretty Good Solitaire is Pretty Good MahJongg, solitaire with MahJongg tiles. Pretty Good MahJongg for Windows and Mac currently have 410 games and layouts.
If you lost your registration code or you need it to install on a new computer, request your code again from our site at: https://www.goodsol.com/regusers.html.
Featured Game - Cruel
Cruel is an entertaining 1 deck game with twelve piles in the tableau. Four cards are dealt to each pile at the beginning of the game and the four aces are placed as bases for the foundations. Only the top card of each tableau pile is visible or available for play.
The twelve piles are built down by suit. The object is to move all the cards to the foundations. To do this, you have to build on the twelve piles to free up cards for the foundations. When you get stuck, you can redeal to the twelve piles.
You can redeal as many times as you like, but there's a catch. Cruel's redeal is not a reshuffling of the cards. All the cards in the twelve piles are picked up and redealt essentially in order, so that if you do not make any changes to the twelve piles between redeals, the order of the cards will not change. This is what makes the game cruel.
Just when you think you are making progress and are going to win, you run out of moves and do a redeal and the cards come out with no moves to made. When that happens, you are out of luck.
An average player can win Cruel about 20% of the time. A good player can win 50% or more, however. The key is to take steps to avoid a loss by having a redeal come up with no possible moves. Remember that you don't have to play a card to the foundations even if you can. Sometimes you may want to hold cards back from the foundations, so that you can make moves in the tableau and avoid getting caught with no moves to make in the tableau, which loses the game.
Cruel 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.
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