Glitch That Makes My iPhone Solitaire Better
So, one of the free games I play on iPhone a lot is Byterun's Solitaire. It is a great standard solitaire and isn't laden with ads like a lot of free games. It prompts for you to give it a review every dozen games or so, but that is it.
Anyway, that isn't what this post is about.
I play the normal, difficult way where you roll a stack (as opposed to one at a time) and keep score. A perfect game is somewhere around 750 points, with the typical game ranging between 700 and 735, occasionally 745.
Now, on rare occasion, I was noticing random scores of 1400 points. The problem was, I'd see my astronomical score mid-game. I'd think back and try to figure out if I had done some splendid thing to get rewarded. I'd try to duplicate the effort and monitor the rising score, but was never able to figure out exactly how I was making the double score.
This morning, I happened upon it. Rather than some awesome play, it is actually a glitch. When you win a game and it gives you the fireworks and such, you tap again to re-deal. It doesn't reset your score until you play your first move. If you re-deal, then close the game before playing a first move, when you return and hit "resume game", it thinks your previous score is your current game's score and you can resume play from your previous winning. Sweet!
What this means is, you can tally up a winning streak. It makes the game a lot more interesting, to not only see if you can win each hand, but to keep track of how many you can win in a row. For example, today, after discovering it on my commute this morning, I managed to win around a dozen games in a row through the course of the day...reaching a magnificent 8500 points (when I'm used to seeing ~725 at a time).
The trick is to remember to close the game right after the re-deal. If you accidentally play, you lose the score. Also, this only works if you win. If you lose, the game never tells you there are no moves left, so you have to go to the menu and start a new game, effectively resetting everything.
I am not sure if this trick works with other deal preferences yet.
It would be better if the game capitalized on this and made it a feature, posting high scores on a website to compare your world rank.
My next goal will be to breech 10,000 points.
Anyway, that isn't what this post is about.
I play the normal, difficult way where you roll a stack (as opposed to one at a time) and keep score. A perfect game is somewhere around 750 points, with the typical game ranging between 700 and 735, occasionally 745.
Now, on rare occasion, I was noticing random scores of 1400 points. The problem was, I'd see my astronomical score mid-game. I'd think back and try to figure out if I had done some splendid thing to get rewarded. I'd try to duplicate the effort and monitor the rising score, but was never able to figure out exactly how I was making the double score.
This morning, I happened upon it. Rather than some awesome play, it is actually a glitch. When you win a game and it gives you the fireworks and such, you tap again to re-deal. It doesn't reset your score until you play your first move. If you re-deal, then close the game before playing a first move, when you return and hit "resume game", it thinks your previous score is your current game's score and you can resume play from your previous winning. Sweet!
What this means is, you can tally up a winning streak. It makes the game a lot more interesting, to not only see if you can win each hand, but to keep track of how many you can win in a row. For example, today, after discovering it on my commute this morning, I managed to win around a dozen games in a row through the course of the day...reaching a magnificent 8500 points (when I'm used to seeing ~725 at a time).
The trick is to remember to close the game right after the re-deal. If you accidentally play, you lose the score. Also, this only works if you win. If you lose, the game never tells you there are no moves left, so you have to go to the menu and start a new game, effectively resetting everything.
I am not sure if this trick works with other deal preferences yet.
It would be better if the game capitalized on this and made it a feature, posting high scores on a website to compare your world rank.
My next goal will be to breech 10,000 points.