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Solitaire Overload for Nintendo DS | 
| From: Telegames
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $29.99
New (3) Used (1) from $26.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 285
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.6
MPN: 00504
UPC: 834815005048
EAN: 0834815005048
ASIN: B000WCIHCE
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Usually ships within 1 business day by Priority Mail at no extra cost! Delivery to you in 2 to 3 days after mailing.
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| Features:
| • | 101 unique versions - all from your favorite families of Solitaire games like Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Bakers Dozen, Yukon, Beleaguered Castle, Forty Thieves, Canfield, and many others. | | • | iPhone-style menu manipulation and selection using your finger, stylus, or control pad. All card games are played on the Touch Screen using your finger, stylus, or control pad. | | • | Sort and select games alphabetically, by family, by time, by skill, by chance, by times played, or by times won. | | • | Get detailed information on each version like number of decks, time estimate, skill required, and chance of winning. | | • | Select your choice of background from dozens of cool pictures and gradients; select your favorite card decks to use. |
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Product Description
The most comprehensive and feature-rich compilation of Solitaire games ever released for a portable gaming system has come to the Nintendo DS! Challenge yourself with scores of different Solitaire variants, customize your deck and background, and enjoy over 40 minutes of original soundtrack. You can also wirelessly download any game to another user's DS for them to play on their own - share the fun! Select your favorite card decks to use. Over 40 minutes of original sound tracks. Edit the playlist to only hear what you want to hear. Automatically tracks your stats for number of games played and number of times won. On-screen How to play instructions and button actions. Save the game status, player statistics, and other options for later. PC-style menus allow easy and intuitive configuration and navigation. Game Copy feature - wirelessly download any game to another DS for them to play on their own ESRB Rated E for Everyone
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 If you like Solitaire.... June 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm still trying to get through all the games on this pack. If you like Solitaire this is the games pack for you. Time gets away so set your alarm!
Solitaire Overload June 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Solitaire Overload for Nintendo DS
Excellent program, easy to use, 101 solitaire games offered, great "how to play" section for each game. New game for the Nintendo DS in 2008. I've spent many hours playing it already. I am very pleased with this product.
In addition, the product came from a vender outside of Amazon.com and the vender sent the game promptly, charged a very small and reasonable shipping and handling charge as well. Overall, I am extremely pleased with the way Amazon.com handled this order.
 Good Addition to My DS Game Collection June 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is just what you'd expect: a big package of solitaire games. Included are most of the very best ones I've come across over the past forty years or so.
The interface works well enough. I can understand some of the complaints others have posted: navigation is a bit awkward and takes a little getting used to; and I've seen inexpensive PC solitaire software that has a lot more bells and whistles than Solitaire Overload (SO). Still, you can get to all the games and enjoy playing them.
The graphics and music are just so-so. I found myself turning the music down because it got annoying; and on another day I might turn it off. But to me, these are just frills. I pop in the cartridge to play solitaire, not to listen to music or look at artwork.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that some games have been tweaked; they don't go by the standard rules I'm familiar with (and I'm pretty knowledgeable about solitaire games, having played them and read books about them for a long while). For instance, in Aces Up, SO provides a special five-card wastepile. I've never seen that before, and it helps tremendously, evening the odds in this otherwise tough-to-win game. In Golf, SO allows you to play queens on kings -- a nonstandard rule that again improves the player's chances. In Pyramid, there's a reserve at the bottom to draw from. Other games I tried were not monkeyed with, however. Yukon and Klondike seem to follow the standard rules.
Speaking of rules, I really don't understand others' complaints about this aspect of the game. I've read several reviews of SO, and they all warn the reader that the instructions are difficult to read or hard to follow. Well, maybe if you've never read any solitaire rules before, and you don't know what a "foundation" or "tableau" is. You might have trouble then. But if you know the jargon, the rules are all right at your fingertips, crystal clear, in black and white. I tried a game of Josephine last night, and since I'd forgotten the rules, I looked them up. It took maybe ten or fifteen seconds to call up the rules, refresh my memory, and get into the game. No problem at all.
One downside of playing solitaire on the DS is the small screen. When you're playing games where the tableau piles get long (e.g., Spider or sometimes Yukon), that part of the layout gets compressed, and then you have to do some clicking to see what all the cards are. It's awkward, but it works. I can't think of any way it could be done better on a screen this size.
Although SO is pretty bare-bones when it comes to features, it does provide all that's needed to enjoy a wide variety of solitaire games on the DS.
Solitaire Overload June 9, 2008
This must have every conceivable type of solitaire game. Plus some you would never heard of! It's fun and they give pretty good instructions for the games, in case you haven't played them before.
 Don't waste your money. May 30, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game's name is fitting. It really is OVERLOAD. There are way too many game options to choose from with a lousy indexing system so it is difficult to find the game you are looking for. The cards are so small it is really difficult to see them. It is also cumbersome to play and not intuitive. Instructions are poor or nonexistent. There are much better games out there. Don't waste your time or money on this one.
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