Thomas Warfield (Support)
Moderator
Username: Support
Post Number: 393
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 9:44 pm: | |
Goodsol Newsletter #64
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Patriot Card Set
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Our latest new card set is the Patriot Card Set for Independence Day. This card set features red, white, and blue cards, with portraits of American heroes on the court cards. Play solitaire with cards of George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, and others. The Patriot Card Set can be downloaded from <http://www.goodsol.com/pgs/cardsets.html>. Just install into the same folder as Pretty Good Solitaire (and it also works in the latest versions of FreeCell Wizard and Spider Wizard).
New Pretty Good MahJongg Layouts
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five new tile matching layouts for Pretty Good MahJongg are now available. The new layouts are called Bat, Crossings, Keep, Rectangle, and Seven Hills of Rome. Two of these layouts were created by Pretty Good MahJongg players. With the registered version 1.11 of Pretty Good MahJongg, you can now create your own tile matching layouts with the layout editor. If you come up with a good layout, send it to us and we'll put it up on our layouts page. Between now and July 10, we will be adding a new tile matching layout every day.
These five new layouts are in addition to the 32 tile matching layouts in the latest version of Pretty Good MahJongg, and three other layouts added previously, bringing the total number of tile matching layouts to 40. If you haven't yet downloaded version 1.11, you can download from <http://www.goodmj.com/pgmj/download.html>.
More information about Pretty Good MahJongg
<http://www.goodmj.com/pgmj/index.html>
A Shareware Life
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I have a new web site, called a blog. A blog is short for a web log, which is a frequently updated sort of online diary. My blog is about shareware marketing, the life of a shareware author, and anything else I care to write about. Mostly I write about the things that I do (which is mostly shareware marketing and programming) and also some personal things such as cat pictures. You can read my blog at <http://www.asharewarelife.com>.
Featured Game - Canister
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Canister is a classic solitaire game that has similarities to Beleaguered Castle and FreeCell.
Canister is an open game, which means that all the cards are dealt out face up. At the start of the game, then entire single deck is dealt out to 8 piles, in the same way as in FreeCell, seven cards to four piles, six cards to another four piles.
The object is to move all the cards to four foundation piles, up in suit, as usual. In the tableau, building is down regardless of suit. Groups of cards in sequence down regardless of suit may be moved as a unit. Spaces can be filled with any card.
The average player who has submitted Canister scores to our web site scores 50%, but I think a good player should be able to do considerably better than that. The rules are sufficiently lenient that, barring getting stuck in the very first few moves with an impossible position, you should be able to win most of the time.
For more challenge, there are some new, harder variations of Canister. British Canister, a game new in version 9.1 of Pretty Good Solitaire, is more difficult. It is just like Canister except that the tableau building is down by alternate color rather than regardless of suit, only one card at a time can be moved, and only Kings can be placed in empty spaces. This makes the game considerably harder.
You will run into quite a few impossible positions early on in British Canister. Another variation, American Canister, eases the game a bit by allowing groups of cards down by alternate color to be moved and allows any card in an empty space. You still get some impossible positions at the start, but this makes the game much easier. In fact, American Canister is essentially FreeCell with no cells and unlimited group moving.
All of these games are among the 560 solitaire card games in Pretty Good Solitaire, which can be downloaded from <http://www.goodsol.com/download.html>.
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Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - support@goodsol.com
Anne Warfield - Order Fulfilment - orders@goodsol.com
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