Post by Fatal Rewind on Sept 2, 2021 13:07:03 GMT -5
At first I misread this post from the other day/thread:
Gamers, who else is obsessed with all versions of Solitaire? I play them all, and I do it on PC and on my phone.
Before reading replies, I was *thinking* there was no way you could play all solitaire games since I have a cd that literally has 100 or more on them; lord knows how many have been invented from the very first card game period but I'm sure there's many more.
But then I realized what dpr was talking about was Klondike, what probably most people in general consider "solitaire".
Below are some favorites from a Chromebook package I have called Free Solitaire Collection, I do believe.
40 Thieves
Klondike was what I thought for years and years was my all-time favorite Solitaire game until I played this one. This is a nightmare Solitaire though; whoever invented it must've been a miserable bast*rd who had no friends whatsoever. It's pretty hard and relies a LOT on luck, unlike how Klondike’s a lot easier in general to win.
Anyway, of course, you have to put all cards, from Ace to King into the slots at upper right (what's that called, the Tableau?). This isn't like Klondike where you have to switch putting cards on the playfield from red to black under cards in descending order. Here cards have to match with the color AND the suit as well. See the red King of Diamonds a little left of bottom center? You can't put a black queen under it, it has to be the red Queen of Diamonds. Then you can put the red Jack of Diamonds at bottom left under her, hopefully you can get a red 10 of Diamonds under him so you can put the red 9 of Diamonds right below him, etc. Scoring's slow (only 5 points per card you stack in the tableau) and you can literally lose a couple of hundred games before you win just ONE. My win percentage used to be from 3.4-3.6% out of literally over three thousand games but for some reason my scores reset at some point (I sure as hell didn't do it!). My mom's is less than 2%, as I'm better at games than she is
And even when going through two entire decks of cards it's STILL very hard to beat as you don't get a redeal.
Another thing that makes it difficult that it's like FreeCell, and not Klondike where you can just move cards into piles freely, you have to have a space to do that. Remember the example I had with the diamond cards? Let's say you got it down to a red 9 of diamonds in descending order with that left pile and had an 8 with a 7 red diamonds under that in another pile. You can't move the 7 and 8 unless a vertical stack has been cleared, so you can put the 7 in that free space, put the 8 under the 9, THEN move the 7 under *that*. And hopefully the 6, etc. And there are times you get games so damn bad/hard you can't even clear out one single vertical column! (And you get a crappy score of like 30 or something when a good game is like 165 or higher [the highest scoring game is 520]).
Easthaven
With my Free Solitaire package, you get the most common ones of Klondike, Pyramid, and Spider, along with 40 Thieves, Golf and all. Once I actually beat Thieves I play games of all the others, including a few extras that you play online, and this is one of them.
This is *mostly* like the traditional Klondike where you alternate between colors and suits (as you can see from the King down to the Jack I have here), along with putting Aces through Kings at the top right. I can't recall off the top of my head that you can only put a King down in a spare space or maybe you can put any card down. However, it's like Spider Solitaire where once you have no more cards to play and you deal more cards from the deck then it dumps cards under each stack you have in the playing field, which is somewhat annoying. It's not a real hard game and you can probably win 1 out of 7 or so.
Eight Off
Another nightmare game which takes several minutes to try to think your way through; it's not like Klondike where you can zip through it.
Also somewhat like FreeCell, you've got four spaces at the top to move cards; four are taken with each new game. At the left is where you place cards from Ace through King. This is also like 40 Thieves though where cards have to be placed on the playfield matching suits AND colors. You've got the four free spaces at top but if you don't think things through enough your game will be over when you find you've got no cards you can move. I can usually win at these games but they take a while; others might only win one out of three or four.
Golf
No photo here but it's not hard to imagine. Many stacks of cards are on the playfield and you get a deck to draw from. Here let's say you get a 6 (doesn't matter what suit or color it is, nor the ones on the playfield). There's a 7 on the playfield; click to remove it. You have to remove all cards possible in order. There's also an 8, then 9, then another 8. You can go up or down just as long as a card is only a one point difference. When you get up to a King you can start over at an Ace, then go up to a 2, 3, 4, etc. You can probably win one out of every seven to maybe 10 games; again, it's somewhat high in regards to luck being needed but the games are quick and easy. Why it's called "Golf" though is beyond me.
Before reading replies, I was *thinking* there was no way you could play all solitaire games since I have a cd that literally has 100 or more on them; lord knows how many have been invented from the very first card game period but I'm sure there's many more.
But then I realized what dpr was talking about was Klondike, what probably most people in general consider "solitaire".
Below are some favorites from a Chromebook package I have called Free Solitaire Collection, I do believe.
40 Thieves
Klondike was what I thought for years and years was my all-time favorite Solitaire game until I played this one. This is a nightmare Solitaire though; whoever invented it must've been a miserable bast*rd who had no friends whatsoever. It's pretty hard and relies a LOT on luck, unlike how Klondike’s a lot easier in general to win.
Anyway, of course, you have to put all cards, from Ace to King into the slots at upper right (what's that called, the Tableau?). This isn't like Klondike where you have to switch putting cards on the playfield from red to black under cards in descending order. Here cards have to match with the color AND the suit as well. See the red King of Diamonds a little left of bottom center? You can't put a black queen under it, it has to be the red Queen of Diamonds. Then you can put the red Jack of Diamonds at bottom left under her, hopefully you can get a red 10 of Diamonds under him so you can put the red 9 of Diamonds right below him, etc. Scoring's slow (only 5 points per card you stack in the tableau) and you can literally lose a couple of hundred games before you win just ONE. My win percentage used to be from 3.4-3.6% out of literally over three thousand games but for some reason my scores reset at some point (I sure as hell didn't do it!). My mom's is less than 2%, as I'm better at games than she is
And even when going through two entire decks of cards it's STILL very hard to beat as you don't get a redeal.Another thing that makes it difficult that it's like FreeCell, and not Klondike where you can just move cards into piles freely, you have to have a space to do that. Remember the example I had with the diamond cards? Let's say you got it down to a red 9 of diamonds in descending order with that left pile and had an 8 with a 7 red diamonds under that in another pile. You can't move the 7 and 8 unless a vertical stack has been cleared, so you can put the 7 in that free space, put the 8 under the 9, THEN move the 7 under *that*. And hopefully the 6, etc. And there are times you get games so damn bad/hard you can't even clear out one single vertical column! (And you get a crappy score of like 30 or something when a good game is like 165 or higher [the highest scoring game is 520]).
Easthaven
With my Free Solitaire package, you get the most common ones of Klondike, Pyramid, and Spider, along with 40 Thieves, Golf and all. Once I actually beat Thieves I play games of all the others, including a few extras that you play online, and this is one of them.
This is *mostly* like the traditional Klondike where you alternate between colors and suits (as you can see from the King down to the Jack I have here), along with putting Aces through Kings at the top right. I can't recall off the top of my head that you can only put a King down in a spare space or maybe you can put any card down. However, it's like Spider Solitaire where once you have no more cards to play and you deal more cards from the deck then it dumps cards under each stack you have in the playing field, which is somewhat annoying. It's not a real hard game and you can probably win 1 out of 7 or so.
Eight Off
Another nightmare game which takes several minutes to try to think your way through; it's not like Klondike where you can zip through it.
Also somewhat like FreeCell, you've got four spaces at the top to move cards; four are taken with each new game. At the left is where you place cards from Ace through King. This is also like 40 Thieves though where cards have to be placed on the playfield matching suits AND colors. You've got the four free spaces at top but if you don't think things through enough your game will be over when you find you've got no cards you can move. I can usually win at these games but they take a while; others might only win one out of three or four.
Golf
No photo here but it's not hard to imagine. Many stacks of cards are on the playfield and you get a deck to draw from. Here let's say you get a 6 (doesn't matter what suit or color it is, nor the ones on the playfield). There's a 7 on the playfield; click to remove it. You have to remove all cards possible in order. There's also an 8, then 9, then another 8. You can go up or down just as long as a card is only a one point difference. When you get up to a King you can start over at an Ace, then go up to a 2, 3, 4, etc. You can probably win one out of every seven to maybe 10 games; again, it's somewhat high in regards to luck being needed but the games are quick and easy. Why it's called "Golf" though is beyond me.
I thought Spider was cool when I first found it on my sister's computer years ago when I think I had to feed her cats or something for a few nights when she was out of town and I played a game or two of that once I was done. Of course when my dad got a new computer a year or two later it would be on it. It's just that, as its been done a million times since whoever was the first cinematographer ever to capture a moment when something happens to the hero that affects him or her and they hell out "NOOOOOOOO!"...well, that's what I hear in my head when I've done as much as I can with the card stacks on the playfield during a game, you hit deal and all these cards are dealt on top of everything, messing up your stacks, sometimes to the point where you just can't get out of it and not win.
