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Goodsol Newsletter #393 - Russian Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #393 Russian Solitaire - - 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. 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.   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.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup 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 - Russian Solitaire Russian Solitaire is a challenging and popular one deck solitaire game that is a close variation of the game Yukon. The cards are dealt out exactly as in the game Yukon. The deal begins by dealing cards out to seven tableau piles as in Klondike (one card to the first pile, two cards to the 2nd pile, and so on to the seven piles) with the top card face up. Then the remaining cards are dealt out to the 2nd to 7th piles, all face up. Like Yukon, in Russian Solitaire you can move groups of cards in the tableau 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. The tableau is built down by suit, rather than by alternate color as in Yukon, which makes the game considerably harder than Yukon. The objective is to move all the cards up to the foundations. It is very important to uncover the face down cards, because only the face up cards are in play. Once a card becomes face up, it can be accessed, so getting the cards face up is the key. Russian Solitaire is extremely challenging and you will find yourself getting blocked (not able to make any moves) at some point in most games. The average player wins only about 5% of the time. Good players can win 10-20% of the time. Because it is common to get blocked very quickly, it doesn't take long to play (and lose) a lot of Russian Solitaire games. Since you can play so many games so quickly, Russian Solitaire is the seventh most played game on the Most Played Games list in Pretty Good Solitaire. There are several Russian Solitaire players who have played the game tens of thousands of times. Russian Solitaire is addictive in that you will want to keep playing until you win a game. The origin of Russian Solitaire is not known. It is likely that it was created about the same time as its sister game Yukon, sometime in the first half of the twentieth century. Russian Solitaire 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #392 - Interchange Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #392 Interchange Solitaire - - 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. 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.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup 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.   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.   Featured Game - Interchange Interchange is a two deck Forty Thieves type game. It is very difficult to win. Interchange has seven tableau piles. At the beginning of the game seven cards are dealt to each pile, interchanging between face up and face down (hence the name). The piles are built down in suit. An empty space can be filled by any card (if you are lucky enough to actually be able to create an empty space). The foundations are built up in suit as usual. The rest of the cards form the stock and are dealt one by one to the waste. There are no redeals. This makes the game difficult because there are very few places to put cards and the cards buried in the tableau often never come out. There is little strategy in Interchange because there are so few choices to make. Nevertheless Interchange is one of the most popular difficult solitaire games. Because Interchange is so difficult, a number of easier variations exist. The most popular of these is called Unlimited. Unlimited is just like Interchange except that you get unlimited redeals instead of no redeals. This gives the player a fighting chance to win, although it still isn't easy. There are also one deck and three deck variations of Interchange. Interchange 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #391 - Rouge et Noir Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #391 Rouge et Noir Solitaire - - 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. 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.   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.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup 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 - Rouge et Noir Rouge et Noir is a challenging solitaire game. It is one of the most interesting of the Spider type games. It is a two deck game. What makes Rouge et Noir unique is its special way of building on the foundations piles. The leftmost two foundations begin with red Aces and are built up in color to Kings. The next two foundations begin with black Aces and are also built up in color. The rightmost four foundations, however, are not built up a card at a time at all. In these foundations, you must drop an entire 13-card sequence of cards. For the left two foundations, these sequences must be headed with a red King, the last two a black King. These sequences must be built in the tableau and transferred to the foundations as a 13 card sequence when they are completely built. The average player wins Rouge et Noir about 10% of the time. It seems that a good player can win about 25-30% of the time. The strategy in Rouge et Noir is to build as many cards into sequences in the tableau as possible. You want to get the buried face down cards out into play as quickly as possible. Move single cards up to the leftmost four foundations only if they cannot be built into sequences in the tableau or if you need to move them up in order to move up higher cards. Once you complete a 13 card sequence in the tableau, move it up to one of the rightmost foundations to free up more building space in the tableau. When you have a choice, you generally want to move a card on the leftmost piles as these have more buried cards underneath. Also, start building higher ranked cards into sequence first as the lower ranked cards are more likely to be able to be played up to the foundations. Rouge et Noir 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #390 - Antares Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #390 Antares Solitaire - - Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup 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.   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. 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 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.   Featured Game - Antares Antares is a cross between the popular games FreeCell and Scorpion. I invented it for Pretty Good Solitaire in the late 1990s. At the start of a game, the deck is dealt out almost exactly like FreeCell. There are eight tableau piles. Six cards are dealt face up to the leftmost four piles, seven cards are dealt face up to the rightmost four piles. As in FreeCell, there are four cells and four foundation piles. At most one card is allowed in each cell. The foundation piles are to be built up in suit from Ace to King. The game in won when all of the cards are moved here. The tableau is divided into two parts: the four left side piles are the Scorpion piles and the four right side piles are the FreeCell piles. The Scorpion piles are built down in suit. Groups of cards (regardless of any sequence) can be moved. Fill spaces with Kings or groups of cards headed by a King. The FreeCell piles are built down by alternate color. Move groups of cards if they are in sequence down by alternate color and if there are enough free cells that the cards could be moved individually. Spaces can be filled by any card or legal group of cards. Groups of cards may be moved from one tableau pile to another, if they form a legal sequence in their current pile. For example, a sequence down by alternate color (if there are a sufficient number of empty cells available to store the cards individually) may be moved from the FreeCell piles to the Scorpion piles, since that is the legal sequence for the FreeCell piles. Also, any group of cards may be moved from the Scorpion piles to the FreeCell piles (assuming the head card of the group can be moved there). These kinds of groups transfers are called "shifts". Shifts of groups down by alternate color are allowed from FreeCell piles to Scorpion piles, while shifts of any group of cards are allowed from Scorpion piles to FreeCell piles. Once a shift has been made from Scorpion piles to FreeCell piles, the cards in the groups cannot again be moved as a group unless they are of sequence down by alternate color. In short, the Scorpion piles have the same building rules as in the game Scorpion, and the FreeCell piles have the same building rules as in the game FreeCell. Note that groups of cards in the FreeCell piles of the tableau can only be moved as a group if there are a sufficient number of empty cells available to store the cards individually. The ability to move cards as a group is only a shortcut to moving the group one card at a time. In the Scorpion piles, groups of cards may be moved regardless of any sequence. Antares 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #389 - Double Klondike Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #389 Double Klondike Solitaire - - Pretty Good Solitaire on the iPad AppStore - 30% OFF Sale! Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is 30% off in the iPad AppStore until June 27th. Get it on your iPad at Pretty Good Solitaire on the iPad AppStore. The iPad version currently has 750 games. More information about the iPad version is at Goodsol.com/iPad. iPad Version Tip - Touch the big gamename/gamenumber button at the top of the screen to access many features, such as new game, restart game, statistics, select game, and more. -- Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup You lost your registration code and you need it to install on a new computer - it happens! You can always request your code again from our site at: https://www.goodsol.com/regusers.html.   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. This version has 10 new games. 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.   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 - Double Klondike Double Klondike is a two deck variation of the standard seven pile solitaire game Klondike. To see how to play Double Klondike in a video, go to How to Play Double Klondike Solitaire (YouTube). Double Klondike looks and feels like regular Klondike. Instead of seven piles in the tableau, there are nine piles. The cards are dealt out as in Klondike, one card to the first pile, two cards to the 2nd pile, and so on, until nine cards are dealt out to the 9th pile. Only the top card is face up. The remainder of the cards form a stock, which will be turned over to a waste pile. Like regular Klondike, there are two variations. Either one card is dealt from the stock at a time, or 3 cards are dealt at a time. There are unlimited redeals. There are eight foundation piles, two for each suit, with each pile built up in suit from Ace to King. The object of the game is to move all of the cards to these piles. The seven tableau piles are built down by alternate color. Usually empty spaces in the tableau may only be filled by a King or a group of cards headed by a King, but some variations allow any card to be played to a space. Play goes exactly as in the one deck Klondike. Under these rules Double Klondike can be won pretty much every time. Playing strictly Kings in empty spaces makes it a bit more challenging. Double Klondike is a popular game and can be a nice change of pace from one deck Klondike, but unless you are a big Klondike fan the game is fairly mechanical. Several variations of Double Klondike are a bit more interesting, such as Gargantua, which limits the redeals to one and is therefore more challenging. Double Klondike 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #387 - Great Wheel Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #387 Great Wheel Solitaire It has been four weeks since my open heart surgery and I am slowly recovering. I'm getting better but I will be in recovery for months. So how is this going to affect new versions of our games? There is good news and bad news. The bad news is that the next Windows Pretty Good Solitaire version will be indefinitely delayed. It will be awhile before I am well enough to work on it again. I had planned a release for about now, but I was only about halfway done with it when the health issue struck. The good news is that the Mac/iPad/iPhone games will not be much affected. They are done by another programmer. The next Mac update to Pretty Good Solitaire is in development. In this newsletter I have a featured game of an old classic game, Great Wheel.   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.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code sent to you again, you can always request that your code be sent to you at Goodsol.com/regusers.html.   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 - Great Wheel Great Wheel is an unusual and interesting solitaire game. It is a two deck game with all the Kings removed. The tableau consists of eight piles with four cards dealt face up to each. The remainder of the cards form a stock, which is dealt one card at a time to a waste pile. There are no redeals. Whenever a space is created in the tableau, it is filled by four cards dealt out face up from the waste. There is no building in the tableau until the stock is empty. Once the stock is empty, the tableau piles are built down in suit, only one card moved at a time. You begin by getting as many Twos and Threes out as possible to begin building on the foundations. Try to get the low cards played to the foundations quickly. Clearing out a tableau column is helpful since that brings four more cards into play and reduces the number of cards buried in the waste. Keeping the waste from getting too many cards is key to victory. Once you have gone through the stock, then you can begin moving cards in the tableau to free buried cards. If you can create an empty space in the tableau after the waste is empty, you can then move any card to the empty space. If you can get to that point, you will probably win the game. Similar games are Greater Wheel and Carousel. Great Wheel 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #386 - Happy to be Here

Goodsol Newsletter #386 Happy to be Here What Happened? On April 16th, I was feeling poorly so I went to an urgent care center. They did an EKG on me and discovered I was in Atrial fibrillation. I was sent to the emergency room where after a CT scan it was determined that I had an aortic aneurysm, which could kill me at any time. I was airlifted to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. They determined that I was not strong enough for surgery, so I spend the next 11 days there getting my heart stronger. On April 26th, I had the 13 hour open heart surgery to fix my heart and I have been recovering in the hospital since. The doctors and nurses at Barnes-Jewish were just amazing and saved my life. After 26 days in the hospital I am now at home. How this Affected Our Games Obviously as a two person company, this caused a severe disruption to our service. Email response times were much slower and will continue to be slower than usual for awhile. In this trying time, we need all the help we can get. Please tell your friends about Pretty Good Solitaire, we can certainly use as many orders as possible to help us.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code sent to you again, you can always request that your code be sent to you at Goodsol.com/regusers.html. Code request response times will be slower than usual, but we will get to them, and also any support email sent from now on.   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. -- Contact Us - Goodsol.com/contact.html Lost Code - Goodsol.com/regusers.html -- Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #385 - Milligan Harp Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #385 Milligan Harp Solitaire 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 sent to you again, you can always request that your code be sent to you at Goodsol.com/regusers.html.   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.   Featured Game - Milligan Harp Milligan Harp is a two deck variation of the games Milligan and Harp. As usual, the object is to all the cards to the eight foundation piles. These piles are built up in suit from Ace to King. There are eight tableau piles, which are built down by alternate color. Groups of cards may be moved if they are in sequence down by alternate color. Fill spaces with any card or group of cards. At the start of the game one card is dealt face up to the first pile, two to the 2nd, and so on. Only the top card of each pile is face up. The remainder of the cards form a stock. Clicking on the stock deals one card to each tableau pile. There are no redeals. An average player wins Milligan Harp only 5% of the time, but much better scores are possible. Milligan Harp 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.

Goodsol Newsletter #384 - Scorpion Head Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #384 Scorpion Head Solitaire In this newsletter the featured game is a Scorpion variation. We have some new versions in the pipeline that will be coming, but in the meantime make sure you are up to date with the latest versions. - - 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.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code sent to you again, you can always request that your code be sent to you at Goodsol.com/regusers.html. We respond to these requests quickly. We have some people who are repeated requesting codes as if they are not receiving our replies, please check your junk mail folders if you do not see a reply!   Featured Game - Scorpion Head Scorpion Head is a variation of the popular game Scorpion with cells. As in Scorpion, the object is to group all the cards into four sets of 13 cards in sequence down in suit from King to Ace within the tableau. There are seven tableau piles that are to be built down in suit. Groups of cards (regardless of any sequence) can be moved as a unit, so you can uncover any face up card. Fill spaces with Kings or groups of cards headed by a King. At the start of the game eight cards are dealt face up to the first three piles, in the rest of the piles four cards are face down and three cards are face up. There are four cells on the left. Only 1 card allowed in each cell, as in FreeCell. Scorpion Head is easier than regular Scorpion due to the cells. It can be won nearly every time, but an average player wins about 60% of the time. Scorpion Head 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 - support@goodsol.com Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com ©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.