Thomas Warfield (Support)
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Post Number: 567
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 6:02 pm: | |
Goodsol Newsletter #72
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Welcome
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Welcome to our new 2004 newsletter. This year promises to be another good year. In 2004 we will have a new version 10.0 of Pretty Good Solitaire, a new version 2.0 of Pretty Good MahJongg, and other new games, card sets, tile sets, and more. All of these will be announced here in the newsletter when they are available.
Our new Cat Card Set is available for download for newsletter subscribers. The Cat Card Set is a card set for Pretty Good Solitaire (version 8 or higher), Action Solitaire (any version), FreeCell Wizard (version 3 or higher), and Spider Wizard (version 2 or higher). To
download the Cat Card Set, subscribe to the newsletter at <http://www.goodsol.com/newsletter.html>.
We also now have a newsletter archive of past newsletters. Right now only the newsletters from the past year are included, but older newsletters will be added to the archive in the future. You can see the newsletter archive at <http://www.goodsol.com/cgi-bin/news/mail.cgi?f=arc hive&l=news>
New Game Suggestions
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It is that time of the year again when we are working on new games for the next version of Pretty Good Solitaire. If you have any suggestions for new games to be included in the next version of Pretty Good Solitaire, just email me at support@goodsol.com . I can't promise that any particular game will get included, but we are looking now for new games to include.
Featured Game - Aces Up
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Aces Up is a simple but fun and popular solitaire game.
At the start of the game, four cards are dealt in a row. Any card that is of lower rank and the same suit of another top card can be removed from play. Aces are considered to be of the highest rank. For example, if among the first four cards dealt there are a Two of Hearts and a Nine of Hearts, the Two of Hearts can simply be removed from play as it is of the same suit as the Nine of Hearts but is of lower rank.
When all possible cards are removed, deal four more cards on top of the four piles. If one of the four piles should become empty, you can move any top card from any of the other piles into the empty space to create more possible plays.
The object is to remove all of the cards except for the Aces.
Aces Up is an easy game to play, but it is not easy to win. As you can see from the Aces Up statistics at <http://www.goodsol.com/stats/games/aces_up.html>, the average player wins only about 4% of the time. A good player can increase this rate.
The primary area of choice in Aces Up is deciding what card to play into an empty space. It is best to try to find a card that will allow you to remove many other cards. Note that the only way to get at cards beneath an Ace is to move the Ace to an empty pile.
To improve your chances of winning, also see the game Firing Squad. Firing Squad is Aces Up with the addition of a single cell where you can store one card. This cell makes winning considerably easier plus adds additional strategy to the game.
Aces Up is one of the 570 games in Pretty Good Solitaire at <http://www.goodsol.com/download.html>. Aces Up is also one of the 34 games in Action Solitaire at <http://www.actionsol.com>, where it
can be played in timed rounds for points.
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Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - support@goodsol.com
Anne Warfield - Order Fulfilment - orders@goodsol.com
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