Goodsol Newsletter #127 - Holiday Specials

Goodsol Newsletter #127
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Goodsol Holiday Specials
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http://www.goodsol.com/holiday.html

To see all of our holiday season specials, go to
http://www.goodsol.com/holiday.html


Pretty Good Solitaire Gift CD
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We are once again offering our Pretty Good Solitaire Gift CD. Each CD
contains one registered copy of Pretty Good Solitaire and is individually
gift-wrapped. Each copy can be personalized with the name of the
recipient. Shipping and gift-wrapping cost is included in the US$33.95
price. Discounts for multiple copies!
Order at http://www.goodsol.com/holiday.html .


$5 Off Specials
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Get $5 off our games Pretty Good MahJongg or Action Solitaire. For
either game, use the coupon code "HAPPYHOLIDAYS" when ordering
before January 2, 2009 and get the game for only US$19.95, $5 off the
regular price. When using the coupon code, be sure to click on "Update
Coupon" after entering the coupon code to apply the discount. Or you
can order directly from links at http://www.goodsol.com/holiday.html and
get the discount automatically.

Pretty Good MahJongg is a collection of mahjongg solitaire games. It can
be downloaded from http://www.goodmj.com

Action Solitaire is a collection of 52 solitaire games played in timed
rounds. It can be downloaded from http://www.actionsol.com


Christmas Card Set
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Our popular Christmas Card Set is available for the holiday season.
Download the card set from http://www.goodsol.com/holiday.html .



Featured Game - Busy Aces
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Busy Aces is a two deck game of solitaire. While somewhat in the Forty
Thieves family of games, it is the base game of an entire group of similar
games.

At the start of the game, one card each is dealt out to 12 tableau piles.
The remaining cards form a stock that will be turned over one card at a
time to a waste pile. There will be eight foundation piles to be built up in
suit from Ace to King. The foundations begin the game empty.

Play proceeds by moving up any possible cards in the 12 tableau piles to
the foundations. Tableau piles are built down in suit. Only one card can be
moved at a time and only the top card of a tableau pile is visible. Spaces
in the tableau are filled by a card from the waste or from another tableau
pile.

When there are no more possible moves within the tableau, turn over a
card from the stock to the waste and continue play. The object is to move
all of the cards up to the foundation piles. There is no redeal, so when the
stock is empty and all the cards cannot be played up, the game is lost.

The strategy in Busy Aces is simply to get as many cards as possible out
of the waste and into the tableau piles.

An average player wins about 65% of the time, although with good play it
is possible to win over 90% of the time.

Busy Aces has many variations, including the family of games that
includes Deuces, Three's Company, Fours Up, and Penta. Also similar is
Fortune's Favor and The Spark.

Busy Aces is one of the 700 games in Pretty Good Solitaire. It can
be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/download.html . It is also
one of the 101 games in Goodsol Solitaire 101, which can be downloaded
from http://www.goodsol.com/101/download.html

For more featured games, see the Solitaire Spotlight
at http://www.solitairegames.com/spotlight.html

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

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PO Box 9155, Springfield IL 62791
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