Goodsol Newsletter #140 - Pretty Good Solitaire Mac v2.10

Goodsol Newsletter #140
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Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition v2.10
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http://www.goodsol.com/mac

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is now available.

The new version is a collection of 200 solitaire games for Mac OS X. It has all of
the basic features of solitaire - full undo and redo, autoplay, automatic game
saving, in-depth statistics, card sets, and quick click smart move.

Version 2.10 adds 99 new games, bringing the total number of games to 200.
Among the 99 new games are Double Canfield, Northwest Territory, Double
Scorpion, Batsford, Monte Carlo, Accordion, Triple FreeCell, Triple Canfield, Double
SeaTowers, Crescent, Unlimited, Double Yukon, Triple Yukon, Kings in the Corners,
and many, many more.

You can see the list of 200 games (plus 45 bonus games in the full version) at
http://www.goodsol.com/mac/features.html


TO DOWNLOAD
You can download the trial version of Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition from
http://www.goodsol.com/mac/download.html . The trial version is limited to game
numbers 1 to 30 of each game, while the full version has over 2 billion game
numbers for each game. The Mac Edition runs on OS X version 10.4 or higher
(including Snow Leopard).

If you have previously ordered the Mac Edition, you should have received an email
with a link to where to download the full version. If you did not, email me at
support@goodsol.com.


TO ORDER
Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is US$24.95. You can order online from
http://www.goodsol.com/mac/orderonline.html . After your order you will get an
email with a link on where to download the full version and a registration code.
Registered users can submit scores to the web site and you get free upgrades to
the 300 and 400 game versions.

Registered users of the Windows version of Pretty Good Solitaire can get a coupon
code worth 30% off the Mac Edition - just go to
http://www.goodsol.com/mac/coupon.html


MORE INFORMATION
More information about Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition:
http://www.goodsol.com/mac
Screenshot Tour: http://www.goodsol.com/mac/tour.html


Featured Game - German Patience
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German Patience is an unusual two deck game. It is one of the 99 new games in
Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition.

At the start of the game, eight cards are dealt one each to eight tableau piles. The
remainder of the cards form a stock, which is turned over one card at a time to a
waste pile. The top card of the waste is available for play on the foundations.

Cards in the tableau are built up regardless of suit, wrapping from King to Ace as
necessary. One one card at a time may be moved. Spaces in the tableau may be
filled by any card.

The tableau piles also act as foundation piles. The objective of the game is to get all
of the cards into the tableau, putting them in ascending sequence of 13 cards,
regardless of suit. It does not matter what rank each pile starts with, you just
build the pile up to contain 13 cards. Each pile can start with a different rank, it
doesn't matter. You just want to create 8 piles of 13 cards all of which are in
sequence up by rank.

This turns out to be a lot harder than it sounds. German Patience is fiendishly
difficult. On the top scores list for the game, only about one percent of all games
have been won.

There is actually a great amount of room for skill in this game, as I would expect
that the game can theoretically be won quite often.

It's a good idea to create empty spaces and leave some piles empty, as the empty
piles are useful for transferring groups. I tend to concentrate on building a small
group of piles out completely first before expanding out to more piles.

German Patience is one of the 725 games in Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows,
which can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/download.html . It is also
one of the 200 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition at
http://www.goodsol.com/mac/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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