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Recommended
10.4 hrs last two weeks / 54.8 hrs on record (29.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 25 Feb, 2016 @ 9:14am

A nice casual Christmas-themed solitaire game. Though the gameplay is different than Faerie Solitaire and games like that. In this one you click on match pairs of the same number. Your goal is to get all the gold special cards. There are 3 bonus abilities you can use: Shuffle, Undo, and Wild Card. You can buy them in the in-game store with the coins you earn by playing, or occasionally you get a free one by matching a card with an asterisk (*) on it.

There are 2 difficulty levels, and 12 groupings of 10 levels each. In the easy difficulty you can replay any level you want any time. In the hard difficulty you have to replay from the first level in each group. Each group has a different background (though some are just a mirror image or a smaller portion of a previous larger one).

You can change the image on the card decks any time, even mid-game. This is especially helpful on levels with a dark background or light background where you want a contrasting color to see the cards easier.

Note to achievement hunters: If you want to get all the achievements then I recommend you NOT to purchase any bonuses in the store, because one of the achievements is to earn one million coins. And if you keep buying stuff then it will take longer to get than achievement. It took me about 30 hours to get all the achievements.

The music is very nice and pleasant. It changes and shifts so that it doesn't get boring.

Minor bugs: One level has a black background; whatever the image is supposed to be, it does not load correctly. And occasionally a bug will happen when matching one of the * cards where it magically collects all the gold cards even though they are still buried. But that's a bug in my favor so I'm not complaining!
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7 Comments
snowy 28 Jan, 2023 @ 12:53pm 
ye
PunkSteve 11 Jul, 2017 @ 11:46am 
I'm almost 2 hrs into the Beach one, think i'll save the X-Mas one until later in the year, maybe around X-Mas time. :lcube:
Jxt09 11 Jul, 2017 @ 10:32am 
they are both same type of game, just different background, theme, music. Personally I liked the Christmas theme and music more than the beach one.
PunkSteve 11 Jul, 2017 @ 12:28am 
Nice review m8. :ss13ok::cybereye:
I'm pretty sure i'll get this game now after reding ur review. Theres a bundle atm where it's 20c per game & this is included as well as Solitaire Beach Season (which i also just read ur review of), so i'm thinking about getting them both.
Mad Dog Torx 25 Feb, 2016 @ 1:00pm 
Thanks for the review :froggyprincess:
DerEider 25 Feb, 2016 @ 10:57am 
That sounds good, Froggie ! They should pay you for the review. :Norse:
Boogaloobob 25 Feb, 2016 @ 9:59am 
Always like your reviews ! Very complete and informative , also for players unfamiliar with the genre. :Mstar: