Full Deck Solitaire 12+

I enjoy playing solitaire and have never had a problem with the app until a week or so ago when it would crash whenver I changed or customized the background with personal pictures. I didn’t know if I had done something in error and caused the problem or what. I tried restarting and changed settings to no avail. The only thing I could of doing was to keep sending the crash reports hoping it would be fixed but 2 days went by and nothing was fixed. Work finally demanded my full attention and time making me forget the app until today. After restarting my Mac for a security update I noticed this app had been updated 3 days before and found a short message acknowledging there having been a problem but was now fixed. I appreciate that extra step and am grateful this app is working as great and trouble free as ever.

Pros: You can quit the app in the middle of a game and when you start it back up the game comes back up where you left it. This solved one of the things that has really bothered me about other solitare apps, which is finding you need to reboot or something and this causes you to lose a game.

Cons: I have only played Freecell, but their version of this game is missing some features that make it a bit annoying to play. First, you are limited in the size of a stack of cards based on the number of open freecell spaces, even if there are empty spaces in the tableau. So moving a large stack of cards can take a large number of unnecessary moves. Second, when you click on a card so that the game decides where to move it, the game often seems to pick the worst possible move. It will typically not move the card to a stack, moving it to an open cell in the tableau, which is pretty much never the right move. Or it will move the card to the foundation, when you need the card to remain in the tableau so you can use it to build a stack. These behaviors need to be fixed. I find myself reversing most of the automatic moves using undo.

I've really enjoyed playing Klondike 1 with winnable deals. Far from boring, "winnable" doesn't always mean "easily winnable" and some games are a real challenge. HOWEVER, getting the app to deal winnable hands is badly designed. If you close the app after you've finished a game then when you reopen it the app deals you a game that may or may not be winnable and after you've finished the first game you aren't ginve the option for a winnable deal but hae to first go to the menu (but after that first game you are given the "winnable deal" option when you finish a game). What the app needs is an option to ALWAYS deal winnable games.

[For some reason, today after I finished a game the "winnable deal" option didn't show up at all––not in the normal "redeal" popup and not in menu. The only choice I had was to either do a "normal" deal or quit the game and hope the winnable option would be there when I restarted it. I decided to restart the app and, sure enough, it dealt me an unwinnable hand. I had a VERY long win streak going (over 1000 games in a row over a period of many months). It is really frustrating to have that reset back to zero because of an app error.]