Unfortunately, this is another 1 of those games that presents as a non-32 bit game, BUT IT IS A 32 BIT GAME. You can't blame Steam or GGOTD for this, it's an odd glitch that gives a "not valid 32 bit application" error when you click on the program, but that icon only activates the other executable program in the folder, the icon marked Game. The Solitaire Jack Frost Icon only adds the Toomky opening screen with any ads I guess - I forget because the named program hasn't worked for me for awhile - but the icon marked Game is the actual program and it WILL work for you. So, folks with old 32 bit machines can actually download and play this.

I have enough of these, especially since any solitaire card game has theoretically infinite replayability, since the decks reshuffled every time. However, I partly downloaded to test and verify that it does work on 32 bit machines, but also - as Whiterabbit and Jason correctly said - this has a nice festive christmas theme with some cute card designs and slightly busy but still appropriate music. Many of the others have dark themes, which doesn't bother me, but this is a nice change of pace.

A couple of slight additions to what's already been said about this type: the "accomplishments", such as 3 perfect scores in a row on the 1st 3 levels, not only give you an "award", but also a considerable amount of bonus points which can really be a boost when you need to buy Mulligans, Jokers, or Shuffles. These are essential when you get to the more difficult levels.

You can gauge the difficulties of any particular card layout by a couple of rules of thumb: how many cards in the deck and how many upright cards you have to play on. Anything with half a deck (26 cards or less) and only 3 cards, sometimes 4, to match are probably going to be difficult and will need bonuses, or replays, or both, to complete. Any nearly full decks and/or patterns with 7 or more, and often 6 or 5 cards to play on will probably work 1st time through and you should be careful about spending bonuses on them, at least early, although a shuffle's useful if you have too many of the same cards. You can use the same rule of thumb I mentioned above, if you have only 2, 3, or 4 different cards because of duplicates, and you're getting low on the deck, might be time to spend a shuffle. Depends also whether the cards lead into one another making potential multi-card chains. Another useful fact is that the levels have more special cards available in the 10 patterns than are needed to complete a level, and the later levels get hard to accumulate perfect scores on. I find myself going through these a 1st time without replays to accumulate as many cards and perfect scores on the level I can, and then, when I fall short, replaying my "imperfect" layouts until I can nibble out the required amount of cards to pass the level. Some of these layouts are so difficult that you really can't expect to get through them without accumulating a number of bonuses. If you use them earlier, when you can get by without them, you'll have to do even more replays to accumulate new bonuses.

Of course, you'll be slightly better at it if you're a card counter, which I'm not. But, 1 thing about the multiplier that Whiterabbit mentioned. It also rewards you for the speed you make the chains. If you notice, the multiplier starts moving down in between your moves, so fast is better. However, if you're not deliberate enough, you can end up missing moves. These games have an annoying, if useful feature: when you miss a play, an eligible card for the chain you miss will wiggle at you, which can be distracting, but tells you when you might want to use a mulligan if you have or can buy 1. Though, be careful with this. Removing "special" cards is how you win. If a card is wiggling on you but isn't in a pile that has any special cards, ignore it. The small amount of coins you get per card, which starts at only 20 and doesn't go up THAT much even with a high multiplier, isn't worth the 2500 coins needed to buy a mulligan.

And, though it's probably highly obvious, that's 1 of the keys to winning: knowing which piles have cards you need to move and which don't, and just have helper cards good only for moving cards on the important piles.

In any case, happy gaming, and thanks to GGOTD, Toomky, Whiterabbit, and Jason.

NOT TRUE. i HAVE IT AND PLAYED THE WHOLE GAME

As Christmas is coming up soon and we still endure the mental pain of the negative news on the TV, this Solitaire game is a nice welcome to the Giveaway site for a Saturday so you can get your mind off of things for a bit, or maybe even awhile. Enjoy Cocoa, Tea or whatever drink you like, just don't spill on the Keyboard.

The game is very simple you have to remove cards that follow sequential order. In this game, the game does not care about the color or suit of the cards just as long as you remove them in the order it wants.

I had played a lot of these kinds of games on Pogo before their format changed. Now I find myself playing these games on Arkadium although the advertising is a bit much on their site at times

Although the backgrounds are fixed in this game you can change the backs of the cards with some nice holiday themed card backs. And the music well, it puts me in the holiday mood :)

If any of you don't have this already it's just the game to give you a pick me up spirit wise during the holidays. It's something the whole family will enjoy to complete the levels.