I have had this app for many years. I have tried others, but I prefer this one. It was always challenging and fun. I never won every challenge, but I did win quite a bit. After a couple years, I even paid the fee to have no ads.
I noticed sometimes when there wasn’t any Wi-Fi, I would get games that was impossible to win. I would play them several hands and they still couldn’t be beat. I feel like this is something that the game did when you have ads. Because you can’t have ads without Wi-Fi. all in all it was a good game to play all the time to pass the time to keep my mind sharp. I had Wi-Fi signal more times than not.
Unfortunately, in the last few days for some reason, I am getting games that cannot be beat. No matter what time after time games that cannot be beat. What’s going on? I mean, I love it challenge but seriously…
Developer Response
Hi there, Thanks for reaching out! Fortunately, there's a Setting for that! Please open the in-game Settings and swipe up to scroll down to the "Winning Deals" option. This menu lets you adjust the rate of Winning and Random deals, or set it to ask you each time. If you have any questions or feedback, please Contact Us. Thanks for playing!My favorite game! I've played solitaire the old fashioned way for over 60 years, and I love this app. I especially love being able to choose my own photos for card backs and background. There is, however, one thing I dislike about this game!!! 😡Whenever it is up and running my Bluetooth is engaged! Why does this happen? I have sounds turned off in settings. I wear hearing aids, and this causes the sound level I receive to decrease. For example, if I’m playing solitaire and watching the news, I have to turn up my TV sound. Very annoying! It would be a 5 star rating otherwise.
2024 Update: among other things I like about this solitaire app, and which drew me to it years ago, is that it’s Ad free!!! However, that has changed…in my view. Now, every time I open it, I get a banner telling me to go to the Game Center. I’m a solitary solitaire player. I enjoy it, and play it for my own amusement. I’m not interested in gaming with others, nor do I care about keeping track of my own score. Yet, the Game Center Ad (which is what it is) annoyingly pops up whenever I open the app. PLEASE remove this!
Developer Response
We would love to help get to the bottom of the issue, but need more information. We ask that you submit an in-app message and supply the ID MW-1502570, via Settings » Support » Contact Us. Reaching out via the app will provide more information to assist you with. We look forward to further assisting you!I admit it. I only play winnable deals. That provides enough of a challenge for me. And there are some times when I have to struggle to figure out how to win.
When I look at the best results for other players, there’s almost always a fastest time of 30 seconds or less. This says someone has figured out an auto-play program. So no way I can beat that.
I could and sometimes do achieve top ten moves. Pretty cool, especially because so many others have played the exact same deal. I’d be more motivated if I could possibly achieve it more often. They could accomplish that by making it the top ten of the most recent n players. N might be 100 or even 1000 if they have enough players.
The interface is terrific. However the algorithm makes the game worthless. The developer will argue with me but I’ve been “playing” this game for years and know better. Simply, the game cheats on die rolls. Put the computer’s puck on the bar, it gets back in play the next roll (regardless on how many slots are occupied) while your puck sits on the bar until the computer is assured of a win (this is the one occasion where YOU will suddenly roll double after double . . all miraculously for occupied slots). Get all your pucks past the computer’s and watch how many double sixes the computer can roll in a row, while you roll aces and duces. I say I’ve been “playing” this game for years . . . Well, by “playing” I mean until the game’s stored doubles cache kicks in . . . Then I just quit without finishing the game. Because, if played out, you will lose. But the interface is nice. LOL Oh, I forgot to mention, the game does accommodate rolling physical dice as opposed to the computer’s rolls. Super convenient to have to carry physical die with you in order to have a fair game.
Developer Response
Hi there, thanks for the review. We appreciate your feedback! Unfortunately, the content of your view does not seem to match our Solitaire app. Please use this link https://mobilityware.helpshift.com/a/solitaire/ to Contact Us with your ID MW-1255547 so our team can help. We look forward to hearing from you!I have found that with the attempt to supposedly make this solitaire game better, Mobilityware developers have destroyed the game. Not moving a card quickly enough will trigger strobes around the card(s) to give a move. The effect of this is pressure to move before the strobe hits. Tapping a card that cannot be moved causes the card to jiggle. A splashing of the suit occurs when cards are placed into the foundation. These last two items destroy the relaxed feeling most seek when going to play solitaire.
For these reasons this version of solitaire is not enjoyable. There are many exciting games available. Solitaire should not be one of them. For this reason I have cancelled my automatic subscription renewal, and will most likely wait a few months before trying this game again. Hopefully by then we can get back to the basics.
My husband loves this solitaire game and has accomplished winning over 5,000 games in a row —— until his last game. We both took turns trying to solve this one game and after hours and hours we finally gave up. Now he’s lost his stats and is starting all over. Our question is: Is every solitaire game solvable???
Normally, after a number of unsuccessful tries, the game will ask if you want to see how it’s solved and we usually never ask for help. However this question NEVER came up, leading us to believe there was no successful solution. Any response from you will be gratefully appreciated. Thanks.
The only gripe that I have is that there seems to be one player who is cheating. Potentially more. The player I notice most goes by SloPop. I suppose it may be possible for one player to be vastly superior to all of the hundreds of thousands who play this game. But I feel it’s unlikely given that he/she’s scores are consistently thousands of points higher than others in daily challenges. It has gotten to the point where when I am number 2 to SloPop’s number one, I consider myself to have the top score because they must be cheating and therefore their score is invalid. I will keep telling myself that I guess.
When this was a simple game it was awesome. Now you have added all of these bells and whistles that can’t be turned off! The user/player should have complete control in settings to turn off the frills that interrupt what used to be a very pleasant low key game. I love the music and graphics at the end, but there should be absolutely no interruptions in the game and no prompts to participate in any goals unless you choose to select them in settings. Please fix this.
Thank you for your response, somehow I missed the option in settings and I apologize. My only other pet peeve about this game is that when I select a winning game, sometimes I don’t get one; Sometimes I can go back via undo, make changes and win other times not and the hints just say no useful moves detected! Now I wonder if I missed something in settings about this? Anyway I’m changing my review to five stars and I’m very happy that I am able to turn off the goal animations! Ah I went back and looked again and I found a setting for winning deals too! Hopefully I fixed it. Again please accept my apology, I’m feeling as thick as a brick.
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for the updated review! We are happy to help! Keep in mind that the "Hint" feature only shows you possible moves without taking strategy into consideration. If, however, you believe that a Winning Deal isn't winnable, please Contact Us from within the app's Settings menu. Thanks for playing!I have been using Mobilityware Solitaire for several years. Until recently, I have been very happy with it. However, from time to time bugs have shown up. In the past these were quickly repaired.
Very recently I noticed that the setting I used for winnable deals is not functioning. I kept it at 40% since the beginning. That level kept my cumulative score moving slowly but surely upward. Now, as an experiment, I set it at 100% because I clearly see the 40% is not functional. The 100% is not functioning. Winning games are still rare.
The response from Mobilityware was a disappointment. They took away the winning game slider control from Vegas cumulative scoring because they felt users were abusing it to get quickly rising scores. Huh? Why would the personal choices of app users be a concern? If someone gets some pleasure out of quickly rising scores, why would that bother anyone?. The purpose these games is for users to enjoy.
I liked a slowly rising score and had found the right winnable percentage to do that for me. I have saved my cumulative score and switched to standard with 100% wins, which means I treat every hand as a puzzle I play until I find the winning plays like the daily challenges.
Developer Response
Hi there, thanks for reaching out! We're happy to help! Sliding the Winning Deals option to 100% Winning Deals should ensure that all of your deals are winnable. Please keep in mind that the Hint feature won't take strategy into account, and will only present you with possible moves. If you get stuck in a deal that seems unwinnable, we highly recommend frequent use of the Undo button to explore alternate moves. If, however, you believe that the Setting to not be functioning properly, please reach out to our Support Team from within the app's Settings menu and they will be happy to assist you. Thank you for playing our game and we look forward to helping you!As a player of over 100,000 games on your app on several devices over years it is clear that you need a separate button for full
Random shuffle and not a slider that changes the algorithm. There are clear, predictable patterns that emerge when on random shuffle and Las Vegas scoring. Very bad! It’s not exact percentages of gain or loss but clear trends of several chunks of pattern losses and wins on a few definable patterns. For example: during a run of mostly losses it is unlikely to exceed $1000. in total losses before a run in the opposite direction usually ending in two to four successive new high scores out of less than 12 games then hanging in that score range of plus or minsus 400 points until the next slide downwards. This utilizing about 100 well defined, self imposed playing protcols to maximize scores. Please..... a real well programmed random shuffle. Thanks.
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