A Solitaire Mystery

Hi Hempuli, thanks for an amazing game. I believe I have discovered a bug.

In garden solitaire, place two blueberries of the same value into the top left and top right corner (might not be dependant on placement). Now place a blueberry in the middle that creates an average of 4 with one of the cards (so if you place two 3's in the corners, put a 5 in the middle for a 3 + 5 = 8, not a 6 for a 3 + 3 + 6 = 12). All three cards get collected, rendering some puzzles unsolvable. 

Is this intended behaviour?

Please for mac... 

Council of Secrets was fairly easy once I understood the rules. I settled on a strategy of ignoring the secret cards until I've arranged the main cards into 4 stacks of 2 suits each, ranks 4-10. Then, it's easy to identify the secret Jacks, then each suit's Queen and King.

The game would be trickier if it always auto-stacked, requiring you to continually work on deducing the secret cards. I think I'd have to get out pen and paper for that.

With tap solitaire is it intentional to be unable to move a tapped card to another pile if it has no cards above it? It feels a bit odd to have the tapped card become "glued" to that slot until it is untapped after being able to initially tap onto any slot.

Any chance getting a Steam version? Thank you.

Hanoi solitaire can always be won using only 5 slots and moving just same-suit stacks:

• Consolidate same-suit stacks until your 4 slots have different suits on top.
• Move the largest same-suit stack to the 5th slot.
• Consolidate same-suit stacks until you empty a slot.
• Repeat.

Lock Solitaire has me hesitant to autostack, the first time I did while ever card was stacked in what I could've sworn was a clean order it trapped me with a one 13 of a locked suit. Which I imagine is something to do with the ordering of the stack, but it was admittedly a kind of sour way to lose that attempt and essentially makes me consider the button a death sentence. I don't know that there's necessarily a fix, rather just wanted to note that the button is kind of a bad time in that mode.

Still a fun mode though, also done 10 wins on Tap and Eldritch, Eldritch got a little weird because I found it easier to yolo the matches and occasionally I just get stuck with like a 12 and no appropriate matching cards. But that's to be expected of such a playstyle tbh.

Is Garden Solitaire technically possible to win? There are only two eggplant 4 cards in the deck, but because you need a 4 card to make a group of three cards average out to a sum of 4, that means I can only make two eggplant harvests per game, and I always end up with six eggplant cards that I just can't harvest. Am I missing something probably stupidly obvious, or is this just not mathematically possible?

Megataire seems easier than 3 stars. I've played it 5 times and won every time. There's a lot of freedom from being able to stack the same rank together. It's a little tedious to move those cards one at a time, but it generally seems fairly easy to empty a column, and then use the empty column to consolidate stacks with Hanoi-like or Spider-like maneuvers.

I have an issue I'd love to figure out how to fix. I set the game's zoom to 2x to be easier for me to see, but when I closed the game and went back in, the window was its original size while the game was still zoomed in, meaning I can't do anything

Love to have more solitaires to add to the well-worn Zachtronics collection! There are some excellent ones here, and being able to set a seed so you can keep working at the same puzzle is extremely appreciated—I've always wanted the Zachtronics collection to have that and I'm glad it's here.

One thing that'd be really nice is if the game state could be maintained when exiting to the main menu, so when you go back to that particular game again it'll be right where you left off. It's way too easy to accidentally close out of a game and lose all your progress, with how the button to exit the help screen is right on the same location as the exit game button, or how pressing ESC exits immediately with no confirmation, or how you can only access the options from the main menu. Toggle Mute and Toggle Fullscreen hotkeys would also be nice, if possible.

Also, I'm not really sure what's causing this, but Garden Solitaire gets in a weird state where it won't accept valid arrangements, especially with blueberries and eggplants. It's not like this right at launch, but something eventually gets it into this state. I will say that my RAM is very screwy at the moment so it might just be my machine. This is on seed 1712708836

So I'm trying to tackle an easier game, Time Travel, and I'm not sure how to "return" a card? The card is available and not covered yet it'll not get returned automatically, and I can't put it back where I got it from. What's the trick here? Loving the tunes and the idea here. Can't wait to explore more.

Not sure I understand the rules for fork solitaire -- I am on the updated patch w/ the new rules explanation, but I often cannot create forks. I understand that I cannot create a fork ABOVE another fork, but there are many cases where I cannot create a fork below another fork too? Is there some branch limit or other unstated rule?

Here's a hastily put-together example of what I mean:

So this might be a long shot, but I thought $3 isn't much of a risk, so I bought the game trying to get it to work on my Android phone.

Lo and behold Löve2D plays nicely with Android. The Loader instantoy loads up your .exe.

Unfortunately the game doesn't properly scale to my phone's screen resolution so a huge chunk of the UI is off-screen.

Is there any way to hard code a specific resolution or scaling into the game logic through one of the lua files that you get when unzipping the .exe?

I'd love to get this to work for some comfy couch gaming.

HI! Will there be a steam release?

Has anyone tested on mac or linux using wine?

I'm not sure how Fork Solitaire is supposed to work; the description before starting talks about forking, the help in-game makes no mention of such, and I have been unable to place cards that the in-game help would seem to indicate should be matchable.

gosh, I love this so much! is there *any* way I could get an android build of this? I'll pay you.

In the single card solitaire, if you put all of the cards onto 1 pile, alternating 1/2/1/2, then the pile will go off the screen from the top.  It appears that whatever scaling factor controls the length of the pile goes negative when there's so many cards in one pile

Works great in Linux, just launching it Wine's defaults.

Wonderful idea, keep up the good work.

Sorry that every comment I make here is an apparent bug report, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that it was NOT your intent to allow the bottom card slots in the triangle in Transmutation to each hold an unlimited quantity of cards in a single stack. (Incidentally, I discovered this because the hotspot to actually put a card on the bottom-left slot is mysteriously wonky and one time I tried to put a card on it, it got stacked onto the already-full slot on the right instead.)

I'm having issues with the binary solitaire where I can't seem to be able to make any stacks in the 4th column.  For example, If I place a 0 there, I can't place a one on top or vice versa.  Higher value groups are also not possible.  This seems to only be a problem in the 4th column.

Trying Single-Card Solitaire in 0.7c - what a concept! - but its implementation is problematic. The red coloration of cards seems inaccurate more often than not once anything has moved, though it doesn't allow any rulebreaking or preventing anything legal as far as I can tell. What IS a thorn in my side is the limit of the non-resizable window! The strategy I often seem to need is compelling me to grow an individual stack especially tall. I can keep adding cards to a stack even after it goes off the bottom of the window, but I can't pick those cards back up again. (I can grab a whole stack from a visible portion when appropriate, but can't then use those lower cards unless I can set them down on another shorter stack for a moment, which isn't always possible or prevents the move I need to make.) Surely I wouldn't be expected to keep track of when a stack is exactly 31 groups tall and emulate this behavior when playing with physical cards, so I'm sure this counts as a bug. Some way to scroll down (or resize the window) seems necessary to me.

These are some very clever and fun designs! I'm encountering a nasty bug in Council of Secrets, though, where closing the help screen sometimes doesn't return me to the game, leaving me on a solid-color window and apparently softlocking the game. (I know, the word 'sometimes' there is your worst nightmare regarding trying to fix it. But it happens enough that I've yet to finish a single deal of the game before it happening.)

Really cool and fun. Is an android version planned by any chance? I don't really expect it to be but I wanted to ask. 

I encountered an issue where there wasn't enough cards at the end of to finish the last pile.  I ended with 10 face up and 9 face down, but I need 11 of one of those

A ton of fun!

I'm encountering an issue in Tap Solitaire where sometimes I can't untap a card

I really love the Eldritch Invasion solitaire. Makes me feel like I'm playing an RPG while just doing a card game!

doesn't fit good on my monitor =/

I'm running into a weird bug in Babataire. I have a stack that is a jiji card and then 2 fofo cards. If I set the rules fofo is baba and then jiji is keke, it turns all of the cards in the stack into keke cards rather than a keke card and two baba cards.

ahhh would love to play it. Any chance of a mac build?