Pretty Good Solitaire

Pretty Good Solitaire

Infobox VG
title= Pretty Good Solitaire
developer= Goodsol Development Inc.
publisher= Goodsol Development Inc.
genre= Traditional
modes= Single player
platforms= Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
media= Direct download
CD-ROM

Pretty Good Solitaire is a game for Microsoft Windows which includes over 600 varieties of the card game solitaire. The most recent version, 12.0.0 [ [http://www.goodsol.com/pgs/whatsnew.html What's New] ] , was released on October 25, 2007, contains 700 games and uses 24-bit graphics. The game was created by Thomas Warfield, who has invented some of the varieties of solitaire featured in the game, and is marketed via shareware.

Features

*Undo: Allows the player to undo each move back to the beginning of a game.
*Snapshot: Allows the player to record the game layout at a particular point with the option of automatically returning to that point later. Similar to Undo.
*Quest: Presents ten semi-randomly selected games, successively more difficult, for competition with oneself or, through the website, with other players.
*Statistics: Records the total number of wins and losses as well as the score for each game and each player.
*Players: Multiple players can be created with statistics recorded separately for each one.
*Card sets: Different card sets allow the player to change the appearance of the cards.

Awards

Pretty Good Solitaire has won and/or been nominated for the following awards:
* Won the Shareware Industry Award for best shareware game (1999 and 2001). It was also nominated in 2003, 2004, and 2005 but did not win.
* Won the People's Choice Award for best shareware non-action game (1999, 2000, 2004, 2005), voted on by visitors to the ZDNet, CNet, and Tucows shareware sites.
* Nominated for the ZDNet Shareware Award (1999 and 2000) in the Card/Casino Game category but did not win.
*Was the WUGNET Pick of the Week / Shareware Hall of Fame and the first game ever selected as a WUGNET Pick of the Week by the Compuserve WUGNET Windows Users Group in April 2000; as such, it was automatically inducted in the WUGNET Shareware Hall of Fame.
* Won the Shareware Industry Award for best non-action game in 2006.

References

External links

* [http://goodsol.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.pharosgames.com/reviews/pretty-good-solitaire/ Great Mind Games review]
* [http://www.solitairenow.com/forums/Posts/Pretty-Good-Solitaire-Awards-5.html Solitaire Card Games Forums - awards information]


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