Blog - Player Thoughts - Tower Solitaire

22nd June 2019

As the collection grows ever onwards, people send feedback for the various oddities that I create.

You can Play Tower Solitaire in the Shoebox, under the Card Games.

@RSKGames says..

For regular Solitaire players this version might need some time to get used to as the card that is required to build the tower is not one less or one more of the cards in stack but follows a simple rule.

Yeah, it's a slightly different strategy, but it makes things a lot tougher when you end up with a very specific card that you need to find.
I'm not sure if that makes it "too" hard, at times, though.

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Even though the rule looks simple it requires patience and strategy from the player to score a win.

A much slower speed of play, for me. It seems like a lot of thought is necessary to get far in the game.

I managed to win a total of 5 times, 4 times in PC and 1 in mobile. One time I managed to get the entire tower with hearts cards.

The Pyramid of Love!

One more screenshot just before the win

Congrats on your epic wins!!

If no valid moves are left the game doesn't end.

Yeah, I keep forgetting about those sorts of things, don't I!
Silly me.
*slaps wrist*

The following 2 modes (house rules can be interesting to add)
1. In the tower a provision to swap 2 cards if they don't have any cards on top.

Yeah, I get where you're coming from with this one.
Sometimes you'll have two cards at the "wrong" sides of the grid.

2. If there is a stack empty in one of the 3 stacks, then cards can be dropped on to the empty stack from other non empty stack.

That could work, or maybe swapping the top cards, like with the tower?
I originally considered adding a Discard Pile, where you could throw away cards you don't like, but that seemed a bit too easy.
Swapping would limit the amount of problems you can solve in this way.
I'll have a play!

I felt the four tower version is much more enjoyable than the other 2.

I have a feeling that if I implement the two Swap rules, then it might make the game a lot more playable in 5 and 6 tower modes.

Overall a very addictive, fun and fast Solitaire game.

I wouldn't say fast! But, yeah, it's a nice little game.

You can Play Tower Solitaire in the Card Games of the Shoebox.

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