MIND, HAND, EYE COORDINATION GAME

INTRODUCTION

Solitaire Game of Cards

Be it Win95, Win98 or XP this card game with game folder on your start menu is sure to be setup with your windows setup disk. This is a game supplied by Microsoft, there is another game named Hearts, I don’t play complex joystick or other hardware intensive games on my computer, some games require a full dedicated computer for your games software.

Bricks, Solitaire and Hearts is there in my work place computer; my high moment in this game is when I reached 14, 458 in 51 seconds in a game draw of 3 cards. Another interesting game which can be played on computer between you and it is chess, from arkangle.com, the chess present there is very good and it teaches all the moves of grand masters, the Sicilian opening etc., Anyway back to spider solitaire is my time pass, it is light and does not require too much huffing and puffing to play it, it saves the energy and refreshes you a lot.

I feel arranging solitaire cards and completing successfully, do help you with problem solving, in any problem solving you need, mind, hand, eye coordination all 3 if they work harmoniously will untangle your nerves, there must be some physiological definition for it, which I do not know at present. Faced with problems stacking up in your office, home and other fields, while you are deeply involved in playing this game, suddenly solutions pop up in your mind by themselves, its probably taking your mind away from the problems to free the logical powers to analyze and derive solutions.

THE GAME BOARD(Solitaire)

MENUS: GAME, HELP

GAME= Deal, Undo, Deck, Options, Exit.

Deck= 12 designs of packs, if you are tired of looking at one pattern and design, change the deck to feel new and feed your eyes.

Options= Here you can select many interesting options relating to your game, you can choose between 1 card draw or 3 cards draw, you can choose to make your game timed one, this option propels you to do better and better, status bar option lets you see the score move by move and the time is also visible on the status bar, to give you an idea with every move where you stand.

Scoring= standard scoring is your points are calculated, there is no deduction and the points and time is listed in the extreme right corner. Vegas type of scoring is in Dollars, I did not play very much in this scoring format, but highest score I achieved in this scoring is$208 in 69 seconds, this is when the whole pack is solved.

THE GOAL OF THE GAME

7 rows of card, face up arranged by the random mathematical function in the centre of the screen, we are to arrange in sequence order opposite colors top down, for example if you have red 10 in one row and black 9 in another row, drag the 9 over the ten and it will accept and you get the chance to up turn the next card in the row, which is done by just clicking on the card, the draw card stack in the top left corner of your game board is accessed when you don’t have choice of moving any cards in the row and freeing a row card to turn it up. In that case goes to draw cards and start drawing, the difficulty is challenging in 3 cards draw. If you find in the drawn cards the top one can be dragged on to one of the rows drag it and the next card in the drawn card is useable now for you, if that also fits well and good, if that does not fit, draw another time, keep doing this and keep arranging the cards the goal is to upturn as many cards in the lower 7 rows as possible. When you have upturned all the cards in the rows below you have solved the game and you are given bonus points and you have DANCE OF CARDS, falling and dancing.

Still in the goal of this game: Suppose you draw an ACE or upturn an ACE where does this go, it goes in the extreme top right corner of the game screen; there you stack all suits(colors) in sequence beginning Ace, 2, 3 until you reach the king as the last card. This all you have to keep doing, upturning the cards in the rows below, drag the drag gable cards on top of each other and keep arranging the color suits(sequence) in the right corner of the screen.

THE TIP

The greatest time saver is the right mouse button, whenever you find ACE or the next card of the sequence for the top right corner of your screen, you just click the right mouse button, all the cards in sequence order just fly away from where ever they are in the drawn cards or the upturned cards in the row to the right corner of the screen, this right click saves lot of time dragging ACE and stacking manually by your mouse is time consuming.

This one and if you find you have dragged a wrong card, you have better chances to have more openings if you choose from other drawn card or the row. Then you are allowed to undo the last dragged card from the game menu. This function is also useful sometimes to solve the pack. Let me tell you here, not all packs are solvable in 3 card draws, so don’t loose your heart, try 40% of all the packs you try are solvable, if you fail to solve it in your anticipated time, don’t loose heart, solve it anyway till the end. This gives you ideas for some stubborn card solutions. Over a period of time: MIND, EYE, HAND coordination becomes so good you keep solving more packs.

You will get addicted to this game once you have experienced the popping up solutions to your problems in your practical life. When ever you are faced with some tough answers, you will start rushing for your PC and the SOLITAIRE. Don’t believe me, try it you will know, what I am saying, but of course if you don’t have problems in your life, this game has nothing to offer you.

THE VERDICT

We humans enjoy giving difficulties to everyone around us more than solving our own difficulties, if we start doing the latter, there wont be one unhappy person on the face of this world, but sadly we are what we are, the programmers of this game has mastered the former art all their lives and what they did here is given the random mathematical function to calculate the always remaining cards and solved cards and turn up the card which is away from the solution. This way we are challenged to the utmost solving this game.

My life has clusters of clutters all around me, clue to solutions are nowhere to be seen or found, so when I look at the start of the game it always reminds me of my life, solving this pack is like solving the confusing things in my life, the format of this game gives you this feel. I am in marketing I always approach my buyers with my full hand showing, I tell them frankly we are related, the bond between us is you need goods and I sell goods, what can be more fantastic bond than this, we both have calculators, so with me you know what you are buying, you know the defects in my goods and the merits, I will not talk, let the product do the talking. I do sell better than my colleagues.

Listing of 10 games of my choice is(1) Solitaire(2) Chess(3) Hearts(4)Free cell

(5) Pinball(6) Pacman(7) Reversi(8) Digger(9)Bricks(10) Billiards.

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