Excellent implementation of a classic game – Gallery Solitaire Review

I had been hoping someone would develop this for iOS for years. In my opinion, this is the most complex, satisfying solitaire card game in existence, and perfectly suited for iOS. The implementation here is quite solid, and includes the stats that have always made the game especially fun for me. To my mind, complaints about the "computer-aided play" are misplaced. It simply highlights legal moves; but the entire point of the game, and what sets it apart from most other solitaire games (as evidenced by the fairly hefty statistical analysis tools comparing your performance to a brute force "randomly try different legal moves" strategy), is that mindlessly clicking on every available legal move is almost never the best strategy. So it's not as if having the computer highlight possible moves takes any of the challenge out. To the contrary, it helps me focus on the relevant parts of what is already a complicated game. That said, I don't suppose it would hurt to have the option to turn this "help" off for those who don't want it.
Review by yngemar on Gallery Solitaire.

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