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Goodsol Newsletter #96 - Fred's Spider

Goodsol Newsletter #96
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Pretty Good Solitaire wins Peoples Choice Award
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Pretty Good Solitaire has won the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation's Peoples Choice Award for best shareware non-action game of 2005. This award is voted by the public at web sites such as download.com, Tucows, and Simtel. Pretty Good Solitaire previously won in 1999, 2000, and 2004. The full list of all winners is at <http://www.sic.org/peopleschoice.asp>.

Thanks to all the people who voted for Pretty Good Solitaire this year! 


Featured Game - Fred's Spider
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Fred's Spider is a two deck, easy variation of Spider.

At the start of the game 5 cards each are dealt face up to 10 tableau piles. Then remaining cards go face down and form a stock. There are eight foundation piles. The object is to build the foundation piles up in suit from Ace to King to win the game.

In the tableau, the piles are built down regardless of suit. But as in Spider, you can only move groups of cards if they are in sequence down in suit. You will want to prefer building down in suit then, when possible.

When all plays have been made, clicking on the stock deals one card to each tableau pile, burying the existing cards, as in regular Spider.

Fred's Spider is easy to play and can be won nearly every time, making it one of the easiest of the Spider type games.

Fred's Spider was invented by Fred Lunde. Fred's Spider 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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Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - support@goodsol.com
Anne Warfield - Order Fulfilment - orders@goodsol.com

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