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- 1POKER.EXE 51453 09-18-91 1Poker Solitaire 1.4 (Gellman, Robert; $0)
- | is a poker solitaire game by the author of
- | one of the best draw poker games around.
- | 1Poker is easy to play, but calls for plenty
- | of strategy as you attempt to place each
- | card dealt to you within a 5-by-5 grid so
- | that when the grid is full, you get the best
- | five-card hands possible going across, down
- | and diagonally.
- ABROAD.ZIP 161887 07-21-93 Patience Abroad 1.0 (CoCoWare/Cowles, David
- | A. ASP; $10) contains nine foreign Solitaire
- | card games and puzzles. Games include The
- | Great Wall, Monte Carlo, Four Kingdoms, Sir
- | Tommy, Russian Patience, Beleaguered Castle,
- | and more. No graphics required.
- ACES.EXE 81607 02-19-93 ACES OF THE ENO (BSX International; $5-$10)
- | is a solitaire card game.
- BLOCK11.COM 37725 04-09-91 Block11 is solitaire for masochists. The
- | average win rate is one time in 20. The goal
- | is to play of the stacks any two cards that
- | total 11 until all the cards have been
- | played off.
- CALCSOL.EXE 41643 04-21-92 Calculation Solitaire 1.5 (Gellman, Robert;
- | $0) is a solitaire card game that rewards
- | skill, experience, concentration, and luck.
- | According to "150 Ways to Play Solitaire",
- | Calculation stands at the top of the list of
- | games that give opportunity for skill. The
- | essentials can be understood in two minutes,
- | but it will take a little longer to become a
- | good player.
- DARNIT.EXE 83683 03-03-93 DARNIT (BSX International; $5-$10) is a
- | graphics version of Kings Corner solitaire.
- | Because this is an extremely difficult game
- | to win, Darnit gives you the choice of using
- | Rules for Wimps.
- EGAPYR.ZIP 39900 08-25-93 Pyramid Solitaire (Junod, John A.; $5) puts
- | an interesting twist on an old game. The
- | object is to remove pairs of cards from the
- | pyramid-shaped pile whose points total
- | thirteen.
- EGASOL.ZIP 46822 08-25-93 EGA Solitaire (Junod, John A.; $5) combines
- | excellent graphics and playability. There
- | are lots of options including screen colors,
- | shuffling and dealing rules, and hints.
- EGASPID.ZIP 43331 08-25-93 EGASpiders (John A. Junod; $0-$5) is a
- | different type of solitaire game with an
- | unusual twist you can cheat, but when you
- | do, another spider comes out on the screen
- | to crawl around and annoy you.
- ELEVENS.COM 36607 08-18-89 Elevens Solitaire (Metlen, Richard D.; $0)
- | is another version of solitaire. You get
- | nine cards face up and try to pair up any
- | two that total eleven. Face cards don't
- | count, but can be played off by getting a
- | Jack, Queen and King together. After playing
- | off all the cards you can, you press Enter
- | and the empty places are filled in with new
- | cards. If you play off all the cards in the
- | deck, you win. If you get stuck so that you
- | cannot play off any of the nine cards, you
- | lose.
- EVEN_OUT.COM 34571 08-18-89 Even-out (Metlen, Richard D.; $0) is an
- | interesting solitaire game in which you try
- | to play off pairs of odd or even cards.
- | Sounds make it unsuitable for office breaks
- | or late-night play. (Utilities for killing
- | sound in programs such as this are in the
- | library.)
- FREECEL.COM 21908 05-29-89 Freecell (Horne, Jim; $10) is a new kind of
- | solitaire game. It supports a mouse.
- | Instructions are given when you run the
- | program.
- GOLF_SOL.ZIP 118578 12-05-93 Golf Solitaire (Expert Source Code, Inc.;
- | $12) is an interesting variation of
- | solitaire with excellent VGA graphics. You
- | have to play off seven stacks of face-up
- | cards onto a single stack, going up or down
- | numerically. If you get stuck or play a
- | King, you have to play off a face-down deck.
- | When the deck is used up the game is over
- | and the number of face-up cards left count
- | against you. Clear off all the cards and you
- | get to hear the William Tell Overture.
- GRIDLY.EXE 79985 04-12-91 GRIDLY (BSX International; $5-$10) is a
- | unique solitaire poker game.
- KC.COM 62429 05-01-89 Kings Columns 1.1 (Larson, Nils; $10) is an
- | interesting solitaire card game requiring a
- | little strategy and planning.
- KINGS.COM 22042 08-29-90 Kings Corners (Pixel Perfect; $0) is a fast
- | moving form of solitaire that is easy to
- | learn. The goal is use up the deck by
- | placing cards on a four-by-four grid. Kings
- | must go in the corners, queens on the sides
- | (between the corners), and jacks on the top
- | and bottom (between the corners. Other cards
- | can be played anywhere, but if you block all
- | the positions for, say, the kings, and then
- | draw a king, you lose. When all the squares
- | have cards on them, you can remove all pairs
- | of cards that sum up to 10, thus making room
- | for more cards. We never came close to
- | winning. Plays faster and easier with a
- | mouse, but one is not required.
- KLONDIKE.ZIP 138246 11-26-93 Klondike (Martins, Eduardo ASP; $15) is a
- | popular solitaire game also known to some as
- | Fascination or China-man. Klondike has
- | excellent colors, graphics and music, and
- | offers optional Las Vegas scoring. EGA/VGA
- | is required and a mouse is strongly
- | recommended.
- KOSYNKA.EXE 69918 12-14-92 Kosynka 1.1 (Rhyzkov, Sergey; $15) is a
- | solitaire game sent to us from Russia.
- | Kosynka is similar to Klondike, except that
- | it uses two decks of Russian face cards
- | which are played in nine or ten columns
- | instead of seven. Requires EGA/VGA.
- LABELLE.EXE 43364 09-18-91 La Belle Lucie Solitaire 4.0 (Leotti, George
- | and Gellman, Robert; $0) is a simple but
- | very interesting game of solitaire. Although
- | the game appears to be easy to win, it
- | requires considerable thought and planning
- | (and some luck) in order to be successful.
- | The game is much more engaging than the more
- | familiar Klondike solitaire. Norm Silliman,
- | Pleasant Hill, CA, writes: "Love LaBelle,
- | except I can't keep my wife away from the
- | computer so that I can play."
- MID_OIL.EXE 89946 12-07-92 Midnight Oil (Rasa, Randy; $5) is a
- | solitaire game also known as "La Belle
- | Lucie". The cards are dealt into 17
- | three-card stacks with the last card alone
- | in the 18th stack. The object is to play all
- | the cards into suit stacks in ascending
- | order. You can temporarily move cards to
- | other stacks in descending order. You can
- | only play the top card from a stack, except
- | that you can get one draw" of any card per
- | game, as well as three re-shuffles per game
- | of the remaining cards.
- MONTANA.COM 22461 01-09-91 Montana Solitaire (Donnell, Brian L.;$?) is
- | a challenging game of solitaire. All 52
- | cards are dealt in four rows. The aces are
- | removed, and the object is to get each row
- | in ascending rank order from left to right.
- OSMOSIS.EXE 81590 12-07-92 Osmosis (Rasa, Randy; $5) is a solitaire
- | game in which you move cards into four
- | stacks by suit. The catch is that you cannot
- | play a card into a stack unless a card of
- | the same value is already in the next stack
- | above it, with the exception of the top
- | stack, of course. There are four face-up
- | piles of four cards each from which you can
- | play the top card. The other cards are
- | turned up three at a time. EGA/VGA and mouse
- | required.
- PATENC40.ZIP 161914 11-19-93 Patience 10 4.0 (CoCoWare ASP; $10) is a
- | single program with a choice of ten
- | distinctly different versions of solitaire
- | selectable from a menu. Each game has its
- | own Best Scores table. We found the usage of
- | keys to be about the most awkward of any
- | solitaire game we have tested, causing you
- | to have to stretch your hands across the
- | keyboard and numberpad; however, after a
- | while we got used to it. Graphics are not
- | used, so the program will work on any type
- | of video. Mouse support is included. The
- | large selection of solitaire variations in
- | this game makes it worth a try.
- PDS_SOL.COM 51600 08-23-89 PDS Solitaire (Personal Data Systems; $5) is
- | a solitaire game with four game options:
- | Triangle Easy or Difficult or Agnes Easy or
- | Difficult. We are not familiar with the
- | meaning of "Triangle" and "Agnes", but we
- | could not detect any difference in the way
- | they played. This is a very well done,
- | entertaining version of solitaire.
- POKERSOL.ZIP 131002 11-19-93 Poker Solitaire 1.1 (Martins, Eduardo ASP;
- | $15) is a poker solitaire game that works
- | like 1POKER, except this program is for the
- | EGA/VGA.
- POKR_SQ.EXE 21587 07-22-92 Poker Squared (Abello, Jing L.; $0) is a
- | combination of solitaire and poker. The
- | object of the game is to place 25 cards onto
- | a 5x5 square grid and create the best 12
- | poker hands possible. The poker hands are
- | scored across, down, and diagonally. The
- | computer will then automatically calculate
- | your total score, and keeps a running total
- | of the highest score. Mouse support is
- | provided.
- PYRAMID.ZIP 136179 11-19-93 Pyramid (Martins, Eduardo ASP; $15-$20) is a
- | solitaire game. It features high-resolution
- | EGA graphics and optional mouse support. It
- | includes a Tournament mode in which you can
- | play against a friend.
- SOLI_BAS.COM 6196 08-18-89 Soli-bas is a solitaire game that is
- | included mainly because some people may be
- | interested in the BASIC source code.
- SOLIEGA.COM 32290 08-21-89 SoliEGA (Junod, Joahn A.; $5) is an
- | EGA/VGA-Mouse rendition of the basic
- | solitaire game. You are given three options
- | for turning the cards in the deck. The EGA
- | means sharper graphics and the Mouse means
- | easier playing of the cards. After quitting
- | the program, we were left with a black
- | screen and had to blindly type CLS to get a
- | cursor and DOS prompt back.
- SOLITAIR.COM 10828 08-18-89 Solitair (Zemon, Arthur; $5) is the easiest
- | to use of these games in terms of keyboard
- | usage.
- SOLITAR2.EXE 19456 02-23-86 Solitar2 (Irvine, Brian; $?) is played Las
- | Vegas style.
- SOLMENU.ZIP 138190 11-19-93 Solmenu1 (Meadows, Karl; $12) contains five
- | solitaire games: Canfield, Golf, Grand
- | Duchess, Monte Carlo and Frog. The graphics
- | are attractive and the games are fun to play.
- SOLTAIR.EXE 48387 07-30-92 Solitaire 1.1 (Compusoft; $15) is a good
- | implementation of the Klondike solitaire
- | game. It has attractive graphics and mouse
- | support. Options include three-card and
- | one-card turns. Requires EGA/VGA, a mouse,
- | and 483K.
- STACKEM.COM 19467 10-16-89 Stackem (JCC Software; $10) is a challenging
- | and unique solitaire game. It will probably
- | take you a game or two to figure it out, and
- | then you'll wish you hadn't - it'll drive
- | you crazy trying to figure the best way to
- | move the cards around.
- STREETS.ZIP 149179 11-19-93 Streets and Alleys (Conrow, Kenneth; $0) is
- | a solitaire puzzle using cards. It can keep
- | a record of a deal and let you replay it as
- | often as you like until you have explored
- | all the possible paths to a solution and
- | either found one or confirmed that the deal
- | is a bust. It can be used to keep a record
- | of deals which have been solved. Over 200
- | solvable games have been saved on disk for
- | you to try to solve, in addition to being
- | able to generate new hands. Also included is
- | the game, La Belle Lucie. Pascal and SPA:WN
- | source code are provided for each of these
- | games.
- T8.COM 44926 08-29-89 T8 (Williams, Peter; $0) is a rather unusual
- | and very addictive game of solitaire. (The
- | author can no longer be reached at the
- | address provided in the documentation.)
- | EGA/VGA and mouse required.
- VGASOL.COM 8471 03-24-91 VGASol (Cox, Doug; $5) is a well-done game
- | of Pyramid Solitaire. It requires VGA and a
- | mouse.
- MAHJNG41.ZIP 287016 09-03-93 Mah Jongg 4.1 (ASP) is a solitaire game
- | played with Chinese tiles.
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