Fun, but…
No more moves left
Perfect and Smooth Game
Hard to read
Good game but no save function
Sadly, chance, vs. skill…
Loved the board, ease of use — once one figures out how to correctly swipe — and the colors. It’s even exciting to see by tomorrow with four days of wins in a row, I’ll get a cute new card-face.
Sadly, strategy — as in poker or solitaire — isn’t the aim of this could be really terrific little game. It’s mostly a game of chance. Once your initial planned move plays and clears, previously unviewed cards speedily drop down, making other new matches, and this can happen many times/many hands in a row.
Worse though, add to that the scores on what’s happening, also, zip by from the left and right so very, very fast you can’t even read them; so, it’s all just a blur. So, while the sounds, colors and speed of all the ‘action’ may make for an entertaining initial display, any amusement and fascination quickly dulls.
Want to beat your score? The play pile quickly dwindles down. Single pairs get played, where you may not have wanted them, and worse yet, everything is happening so very fast that you can’t ever get a grasp of each hand that automatically plays or even each score — and ‘combos’ — as they do play. The pairings are a blur. The scores only a flash; so, are totally illegible.
So, what’s the point? The challenge of aiming for a high score — the banner of other high scores flashes across the top — is lost, when one can’t even see how one’s own double “planned” plays (or desired combos) really do score. There’s way, way more to successful scoring — in fact, really, unknown — than the handy poker scoring guide.
I have a feeling, while I thought this might be one of my keepers, unless there’s a future slo-motion dial allowing me to have the pleasure to actually see and follow every play (and score!), Politaire will be relegated to the delete pile before long.
Sad, too, as it’s a nice, cute little game that just might be fun, otherwise. But with so much automatic — and happening so very fast that one cannot even follow — what’s the point? It’s mostly chance — and too fast to follow, at that. You’re really getting to play only very few real solitaire/poker hands.
