Goodsol Newsletter #359 -- https://www.goodsol.com
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NEW PRETTY GOOD SOLITAIRE MAC EDITION v3.56 with 750 GAMES
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https://www.goodsol.com/mac
A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is now available!
The trial version can be downloaded from http://www.goodsol.com/mac .
If you have purchased, go to the Internet menu in the game, select
"Download Latest Version". The Mac App Store version has not yet
updated, but will update soon.
Version 3.56 fixes a crash issue in the macOS 10.15.5 Catalina update
that occurred on iMacs and some MacBooks.
If anyone still gets any crashing problems with this update, please
send us a crash report by email.
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LATEST VERSIONS
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WINDOWS --
Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is currently at version 19.2 with
1015 games and Daily Quests.
Download the latest Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows:
https://www.goodsol.com/download.html
The 25th anniversary version of the Windows Pretty Good Solitaire is
coming in July!
MAC --
Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is currently at version 3.56 with
750 games. If you have the full version installed, just go to the
Internet menu, select "Download Latest Version" to update. Download
the trial at https://www.goodsol.com/mac .
iPAD --
Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700
games. Learn more at https://www.goodsol.com/ipad .
IPHONE --
Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 contains
720 games. Learn more at https://www.goodsol.com/iphone . Still at its
introductory price of only 99 cents.
PRETTY GOOD MAHJONGG --
Our companion game to Pretty Good Solitaire is Pretty Good MahJongg,
solitaire with MahJongg tiles. Pretty Good MahJongg for Windows is
currently at version 2.7 with 410 games. Try it out at
https://www..goodsol.com/pgmj .
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FEATURED GAME - SEA TOWERS
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Sea Towers, also known as Seahaven Towers, is an excellent variation
of the popular FreeCell solitaire game.
Sea Towers begins by dealing out all the cards into ten tableau piles
(two more piles than FreeCell). Each pile is dealt five cards. All the
cards are face up. There are two remaining cards, which are placed one
each in two cells, with two more cells that begin the game empty.
The object of Sea Towers is to build four foundation piles up in suit
from Aces to Kings. The four cells are storage places for one card
each. Any available card can be moved to an empty cell, and cards in
the cells can be moved either back to the tableau or to the
foundations.
In the ten tableau piles, building is down by suit. Only a King can be
played to an empty tableau pile. Groups of cards in sequence down by
suit cannot be moved together, unless there are enough empty cells
that the cards could be moved individually. If you have two cells
empty, for example, it would be possible to move a group of three
cards in sequence down by suit by moving the first two cards to the
cells, then moving the third card, then moving the two cards back from
the cells to reform the group. Since this is a lot of work, you can
shortcut by just moving the three cards together as a group from one
tableau pile to another, as in FreeCell. But if you only have two
cells empty, you cannot move more than three cards together.
Like FreeCell, it is very important to try to keep the cells as empty
as possible so that you can move more cards around in the tableau. The
restriction of playing only Kings to an empty pile combined with
building by suit instead of alternate color makes Sea Towers a
somewhat more difficult game than FreeCell.
The overwhelming majority of Sea Towers positions can be won, there
are very few unwinnable positions. However, there are a lot more
unwinnable positions than in FreeCell.
Sea Towers is one of the 1015 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for
Windows) at https://www.goodsol.com/download.html , and one of the 750
games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition at
https://www.goodsol.com/mac and one of the 700 games in Pretty Good
Solitaire for iPad at https://www.goodsol.com/ipad and one of the 720
games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mini for iPhone at
https://www.goodsol.com/iphone .
For more featured games, see the Solitaire Guide at
https://www.goodsol.com/games/
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