As said, since this is a match solitaire, rather than an up/down, there's more difficulty, and maybe more strategy, since your decisions on what to buy, and when to use the bonuses, are probably more critical. A couple of things not mentioned in the game help, or tutorial, you can go through the deck more than once, until you get a zero. You can match the 2 turned up from the deck to each other. Of course, your risking that you won't need those 2 cards later, but you get the money for them. A bit of strategy there. Finally, at least in Newbie mode, the game will alert you if you make a mistake - this is also true in 8Floor's up/down solitaire. If you miss matching a deck card with a card on the table, and turn over 2 more, the card on the table will jiggle to alert you that you missed one. If so, should you have a mulligan, or can buy one, you can elect to use it, or go on.

Slightly above average review aggregate on BigFish's main page, as linked in the blue box, though only 8 reviews. And only 50/50 on recommending it, though part of that is "should you buy", and today you don't have to calculate whether it's worth the money. : ) I have one or 2 of these memory matchers from 8Floor on my down - needs parts - old Win 7 gaming machine, but none on this ancient machine, so worth it for me.

I probably should have mentioned on previous giveaways, I'm finding some of these ToomKy's on this Win32 XP SP3 machine give me the "not a valid Win32 application error" when I click on the main link, but I just click on the "Game" executable in the folder, and it works fine. No idea why that would occur. But, just saying, try that folks before you give up on some of these. You can always make your own shortcut from that "Game" executable if you need one. Me, I only play these games sporadically, I don't usually play a game every day, so I just go into the folders when I want to play. I put them in a Shared Games folder, rather than program files, with type subfolders, like Solitaire, for easier access. If I just want a quick play, usually just do some of the built in Windows - solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Minesweeper, because I can do them in windows instead of fullscreen and multitask. Of course, I realize I can do a lot of these in a window instead of fullscreen, but, to me, the windows solitaire and Minesweeper are more conducive to small windows, which I prefer, so I can go back and forth from skimming a page to playing a card, for example.

As far as look, feel, music of this game, all fine with me, but I'm not too hard to please on that. Gameplay is the most important, by far, to me.

Well, I'm tired, and I'm sure that as soon as I post this, I'll remember all the things I forgot to say. LOL. In any case, thanks to GGOTD, ToomKY, sailorbear for another fine contribution, and the always exceptional Whiterabbit.

Whiterabbit-uk, Thanks as always! Thanks, too, for the link to Sandbox/Sandboxie like programs. Much appreciated!!
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I like playing Solitaire games first thing in the morning while waiting for my brain to boot up. :-)

For those of you who are downloading todays game, this type of solitaire may not be your typical Tri Peaks Solitaire kind of game where you match the suits. Instead, you are matching like cards on the playing field.

The best strategy advice I can give in this instance is to start out with matching the cards on the playing field first before opening your deck to continue to match. This is a format I've never experienced before. Maybe I had on Pogo but they have changed their format dramatically and I don't know what games they have anymore.

You will be taking lots of time completing levels in this game. Also you earn coins in game to purchase the ability to help you complete a level. One of the things that kind of slows down for me is when a notice comes on the screen , dims it a little and says 499 coins! I think the dimming transition to this game can be eliminated as there are other ways to communicate to the player what they earned.

The coin system does have a micro transaction feel to it in a sense but at least you're not looking at advertising unlike many of the free solitaire games out there in the Apple App Store.

8 Floor Solitaire games are always on sale with Steam so you can check them out and keep them permanently if you like that. Be aware Steam is a fairly large download on your PC so for those of you with limited space you can actually install Steam to an external drive and configure Steam to install games there.

Another solitaire game from 8Floor, this time with slightly different game mechanics: match 2 cards to remove them both, instead of the usual increments of 1 up or down. I like the Ancient Egypt graphics, too. Works fine on Win7. Thanks, all!

I hate the game play in this game. Played 2 levels and uninstalled. Impossible to win. You can only remove one card at a time. If a 7 comes up from the deck, you can only remove a 7. Nothing else. Worthless to me.

This is a good solitaire game. Works on windows 11. Worth trying if you like card games. You have to match 2 of the same card to complete the game.