Thomas Warfield (Support)
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Username: Support
Post Number: 9
Registered: 12-2002
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Goodsol Newsletter #57
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<http://www.goodsol.com>
Happy New Year!
Goodsol Forum
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<http://www.goodsol.net/forum>
We have a new web discussion forum on our web site. The Goodsol Discussion Forum at <http://www.goodsol.net/forum> is where you can post questions about Pretty Good Solitaire or any of our other games, and also post questions and discuss solitaire in general.
To start things out we have a topic for questions about Pretty Good Solitaire, a topic for questions about Pretty Good MahJongg, and others. There is a topic for asking whether a particular solitaire game is in Pretty Good Solitaire (since some games are known by many different names, you might not be able to find it in the list of games even if you know its name). There is a topic for asking whether a specific game number of a specific game can be won. For example, you could post whether anybody has been able to win FreeCell game #11983. Someone who has played it and won it can respond.
The forum is intended not only for users to ask questions to us, but also for players to discuss with each other. The current topics are only a starter list, if people are interested in something we can add a topic for it to the forum. The forum is brand new, so just jump right in. You can create a login and password if you like, but it isn't required to post or to read the forum in the public topics.
During our most recent beta test we had a similar group for our beta testers and it was a big success. The testers enjoyed being able to have discussions with each other. So we decided to create a community site for solitaire players!
Discuss solitaire at the Goodsol Forum at <http://www.goodsol.net/forum>, or go to our home page at <http://www.goodsol.com> and click on the Discussion forum link at the top of the page.
Pretty Good MahJongg Layouts
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<http://www.goodmj.com/pgmj/layouts.html>
Pretty Good MahJongg comes with 20 MahJongg tile matching layouts, but we are creating more layouts regularly. If you have Pretty Good MahJongg, you can go to our web site to download new layouts. Just go to <http://www.goodmj.com/pgmj/layouts.html>. We currently have nine new layouts available for download. Just download the small file, run the installation and install into the same folder where Pretty Good MahJongg is installed. You will then be able to play nine new tile matching games!
Pretty Good MahJongg is our new MahJongg tile solitaire game. If you haven't yet tried it, go to <http://www.goodmj.com> to download the trial version.
Featured Game - Australian Patience
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Australian Patience is a solitaire game that combines elements from the popular games Klondike, also known as the standard Windows solitaire game, and Yukon. Australian Patience is currently the 6th most played game in Pretty Good Solitaire, making it one of the most popular solitaire games.
To begin the game, 28 cards are dealt out to the tableau, four cards each to seven piles. All of the cards are face up. The remainder of the cards form a stock, which will be turned over one card at a time to a waste pile. The 28 card layout is the same number of cards as Klondike, although the fact that all the piles have the same number of cards is different from Klondike.
There are four foundation piles, each pile built up in suit from Ace to King, as in both Klondike and Yukon. The object of the game is to move all of the cards to these piles.
The seven tableau piles are built down by suit. Empty spaces in the tableau may only be filled by a King or a group of cards headed by a King. Among the seven tableau piles you can move groups of cards regardless of any sequence, as in Yukon. 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.
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 or on a tableau pile. You can play only once through the stock, there is no redeal.
Australian Patience is harder than Yukon primarily because of the stock and waste piles. Needed cards are often buried in the waste pile and unavailable. A low ranked card that gets buried deep in the waste pile will usually spell doom for the game. To win, you need to get as many cards out of the waste pile as possible. Average players can win Australian Patience only about 25% of the time, while very good players can get their winning percentage considerably higher.
Australian Patience is one of the 500 solitaire card games in Pretty Good Solitaire, which can be downloaded from <http://www.goodsol.com/download.html>. It made its first appearance anywhere in version 2.2 of Pretty Good Solitaire in early 1997. A number of variations of Australian Patience have since appeared, including Brisbane and the 2 deck game Outback.
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Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - support@goodsol.com
Anne Warfield - Order Fulfilment - orders@goodsol.com
©2003 Goodsol Development Inc.
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