Goodsol Newsletter #94 - Spiderette
Goodsol Newsletter #94
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New Custom Pretty Good MahJongg Tileset
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http://www.goodmj.com/tilesets.html#nature
A
new custom Pretty Good MahJongg tileset is now available. The Michigan
Nature Scenes tileset features pictures of woods, beaches, and lakes
taken near Lake Michigan. This tileset can be downloaded from <http://www.goodmj.com/tilesets.html#nature>.
To install the tile set, download the file, unzip it and place it in
the C:\Program Files\Pretty Good MahJongg 2\tilesets folder.
This tileset requires at least version 2.1 of Pretty Good Mahjongg. Pretty Good MahJongg can be downloaded from <http://www.goodmj.com/download.html>.
This
is a custom tileset, which means it is simply an image file. You can
create your own tilesets with your own images using the instructions at
<http://www.goodmj.com/tilesets.html#create>.
Featured Game - Spiderette
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Spiderette
is a one deck solitaire game of the Spider type. It is a sort of one
deck version of Spider, with a bit of Klondike thrown in.
There
are seven tableau piles. At the start of the game, one card is dealt to
the first pile, two cards are dealt to the second pile, and so on until
seven cards are dealt to the seventh pile. Only the top card of each
pile is face up. This gives a tableau like Klondike. The remainder of
the cards form a stock.
Within the tableau, building is down
regardless of suit. Groups of cards can only be moved if they are in
sequence down in suit, like Spider. An empty tableau pile can be filled
by any card or legal group of cards. When no more building is possible,
one card is dealt to each tableau pile as in Spider (the last deal from
the stock will only have 3 cards, these are dealt to the leftmost three
tableau piles).
The object is to build 13 card sequences from
King down to Ace in suit, as in Spider. The game is won if you can get
the tableau to just contain the 4 13-card suit sequences. In this
objective it is like the game Scorpion.
Strategy in
Spiderette is much like Spider. Because you can only move cards in suit
sequences, building by suit in the tableau is always preferred. Spaces
should be created as quickly as possible and used to bring more cards
into play.
Using these rules Spiderette can be won 5-10% of
the time. A common variation is to allow moving of groups of cards
regardless of suit (a sort of one suit Spiderette, often called Baby
Spiderette). With these relaxed rules the game can be won nearly every
time.
Spiderette was named by Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey
Mott-Smith in the first half of the 20th century, but was apparently
already a well known game at that time.
Spiderette is one of the 610 solitaire games in Pretty Good Solitaire. It can be downloaded from <http://www.goodsol.com/download.html>.
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Anne Warfield - Order Fulfilment - orders@goodsol.com
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