▻ Solitaire 12+

This is a really fun app which would essentially be thought of as a waist of time, but is an excellent way to keep your brain working. Think about it, if all you did with your spare time was watch TV (simply letting someone else entertain you while your brain basically "veggies out") is it not so much better to exercise your brain, and even doing that in such a simplistic way? Yes! Exercise away! And make it easy on yourself, even "challenging" yourself with little baby steps of levels of difficulty. It's an easy way to keep your brain thinking. Because, seriously, there are a lot of people out there who have already forgotten how to think!

I really like this app, even more than I thought I would. Only a few issues. First, the app, occasionally, seems to freeze up for 5 or 6 seconds. It's annoying, but I can get over it. What is harder to get over is while I can't make any moves during freeze up, the timer still records time. When the freeze up ends, the timer show the 5 or 6 seconds that has elapsed. Since time is used to calculate the score, that's problematic. Second, the ad that is positioned at the bottom... In that position, I often touch it inadvertently. It then opens Safari browser. I have to click a link to return to the game. I would prefer the ad to appear at the top or left (right-handed) where I would not inadvertently touch it. Maybe we can choose the location? Third, the app is 430Mb. Why is a solitaire game so big? Is this related to the variety of ads that popup? Also, I play this game on more than one device. The results are linked through my game account. I know this because my high score results show up on all the devices. So, why can’t the “daily” play on multiple devices get linked? As currently designed, I have to do the daily play on one device to get monthly totals. Would love to use whichever device was handy and see the totals on all. Last, the yellow warning symbol that indicates no additional moves should be optional. Often, I continue to make moves and even win games after that warning appears. Address those items and this is a 5 star app!

It seems every update mentions eliminating bugs and making the game more stable. I have only noticed more flashing and repetitive advertisements. Also, the game now crashes. Now it could be worse, if you just restart the game and choose “resume”, you will usually be returned after some delay to where you were. It is not a good look to have a computer game that must be based on intelligent programming to have so many repetitive ads. After seeing the same ad so many times, it would make anyone try to get rid of it as soon as possible. You can bring an ad back after a long delay. I might change my mind and look at it carefully. The solitaire game is now set up so if you miss the button “restart” or if your finger slides off that button, then the click to see more of the ad is activated. I’m sure you don’t admit to your advertisers that most of the clicks were unintended. I don’t have to play this game. There are other games and other solitaire programs. Let me guess - the programmers are smart enough to know all this, but the business managers insist that their minions spend almost all their time at attempting to maximize profit. Fire the bosses.