Solly: ‘taire it up™

Normally: $20.00

ZOT Price: $9.87

Four for One.

Solly offers a quartet of traditional single-player games that have been helping people pass time (and reduce productivity) for centuries.

• Card Game. Arrange 52 cards into four piles of thirteen, using standard solitaire rules (alternating color, and numbers in sequence). The player may set the number of “redeals” allowed from the deck.
• Tile Game. Remove 152 tiles, using common Mahjong solitaire rules (match tile pairs that can slide leftward or rightward).
• Peg Game. Remove all but one of 44 pegs by jumping one peg over another.
• Memory Game. Remove all but four “stop” disks by revealing matching pairs. The player may choose the number of disks used.

Win rarely. Score highly.

Face it: You almost never win at solitaire, and you’ll almost never win at Solly. But Solly brings truth to the adage, “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose; it’s how you play the game.” Play your cards (or tiles or pegs or disks) right, and, even with some of them left over, you could generate an enormous score … potentially reaching over 114 quadrillion points!

How does it work? Simple arithmetic. The game pieces in Solly wear mathematical suits: Adds (), Muls (), Subs (), and Divs (). These suits affect your score: Remove a pair of “5 of Adds” tiles to increase your score by 5; jump over the “X of Muls” peg to magnify your score ten-fold; match the “7 of Subs” disks to reduce your score by 7 (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since negative scores are just as good as positive ones); try to avoid the “Divs” —or clear them out early— or you could wind up with the worst possible score, zero.

Do the math … or don’t. If you don’t care about the points, just turn off Solly‘s “Keep Score” option and enjoy the games as good, old-fashioned, win-or-lose time-killers.

Notes

Solly runs natively on PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs (Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher required), and it features jazz interpretations of classical music pieces by musician John Stebbe.

Solly is a free upgrade for purchasers of Solitairithmetic 1.x from Day Late & Dollar Short Software. Contact sollyupgrade@daylateanddollarshort.com for upgrade information.

Volume licenses (at ZOT! rates or better) are available directly from the Day Late & Dollar Short Software web site.