Goodsol Newsletter #123 - Eight Off

Goodsol Newsletter #123
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http://www.goodsol.com


New Online Game
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http://www.goodsol.com/online

We have added a ninth game to our online games site at
http://www.goodsol.com/online . Eight Off can now be played online at
http://www.goodsol.com/online/eightoff.html . Our online games are free
to play in any Java-enabled browser on any internet connected
computer. The features are basic compared to our downloadable games,
but the online games give you a way to play solitaire if you are on a
computer that does not have our software installed.

The other games on our online games site are Klondike, FreeCell, Spider,
Golf, Pyramid, Aces and Kings, Cruel, and Yukon.


Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition
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http://www.goodsol.com/mac

For those of you with Apple Mac computers, our new Mac game Pretty
Good Solitaire Mac Edition is available at http://www.goodsol.com/mac .
It contains 30 games, including Klondike, FreeCell, and Spider.

We are still working on the next version, which will contain 101 games.
The Mac platform is new to us and it is taking longer than we had hoped,
but we should have the new version available soon. The 101 game
version will be a free update to everyone who has purchased or will
purchase the 30 game version.

Also, if you have a newer Mac, note that it is possible to run Windows on a
Mac. Personally, I use Parallels from http://www.parallels.com to run
Windows on my iMac, and the Windows version of Pretty Good Solitaire
works great using Parallels. You can also run Windows using Boot Camp
from Apple.



Featured Game - Eight Off
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Eight Off is a popular FreeCell type game.

At the start of the game, six cards each are dealt to eight tableau piles.
There are also eight cells, four of which are filled at the start with cards.

There are four foundation piles which are to be built up in suit from Aces
to Kings. The game is won when all of the cards are moved to the
foundations.

The eight cells work just like the cells in FreeCell. Each cell can contain
one card and any card may be placed in an empty cell.

In the tableau, building is down by suit. Only one card a time may be
moved. However, as in FreeCell, there is a shortcut where you can move
groups of cards as a unit if you have enough empty cells available where
you could move each card individually using the cells. Therefore, it is
helpful to have as many cells empty as possible.

Empty tableau piles may be filled only by a King (or a legal group of cards
headed by a King).

Eight Off is much like FreeCell in that nearly all games can be won with
enough effort (there are some unwinnable games, but they are rare). As
such, it is nearly entirely a game of skill and strategy.

Eight Off is one of the 700 games in Pretty Good Solitaire. It can
be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/download.html .

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Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - support@goodsol.com
Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - orders@goodsol.com

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