A Solitaire Mystery

will there ever be a mac build?

Could you specify in the rules for the 52 card pickup solitaire that you can only move the first ten cards in a stack? It took me a while to figure out on my own that adding a 3 to the top of a stack that goes from a king to a 4 would disable the king.

Is Solitairdle supposed to be an only 0.001% chance at winning? And needlessly frustrating? I have my doubts that it's a 2 star difficulty game.

Solitairdle, if you restart after winning, the first time you get a yellow or green square,  the message "The word was X" from the previous game pops up, and never goes away.

Hi! I'm ADHD and am finding it difficult to notice when a card  needs to be sent back in time travel solitaire, and I was wondering if you could maybe add a setting to make the cards flash to make the need to not create a paradox more visible?

Swap-A-Taire seems pretty hard to lose. I failed to lose several times until I figured out I should deliberately avoid freeing an Ace, and then lock all the piles with 2-6 of the same suit, with 2, 3, and 4 on numbers larger than 5 (which is easier if you eagerly stack the other suits on the foundation).

Maybe its difficulty rating should be lower than 3 stars? It's not quite 1-star, because playing mindlessly will often get stuck in a loop, and it takes a little thought to get out of the loop.

I downloaded and ran this game but for some reason it won't start!

I am running windows 11 64bit

love 2D does not start either!

I'm posting a translated version of the game, so there might be some mistakes.

I'm sorry.

このゲームをダウンロードして実行したのですが何故か起動しません

windows11 64bit です

love 2D も起動しません

翻訳した文章を投稿してるので変なところがあるかもしれませ

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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.

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.