Pretty Good Solitaire
Encyclopedia
Pretty Good Solitaire is a game for Microsoft Windows
which includes over 600 varieties of the card game solitaire
. The most recent version, 12.4.0, was released on August 17, 2010, contains 750 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
as a 30-day trial.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
which includes over 600 varieties of the card game solitaire
Solitaire
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people. The solitaire card game Klondike is often known as simply Solitaire....
. The most recent version, 12.4.0, was released on August 17, 2010, contains 750 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
Shareware
The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...
as a 30-day trial.
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 sharewareSharewareThe term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...
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 CompuserveCompuServeCompuServe was the first major commercial online service in the United States. It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major player through the mid-1990s, when it was sidelined by the rise of services such as AOL with monthly subscriptions rather than hourly rates...
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.