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| From: Telegames
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $29.99
New (3) Used (1) from $29.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 687
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 00504
UPC: 834815005048
EAN: 0834815005048
ASIN: B000WCIHCE
Release Date: October 29, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Good Addition to My DS Game Collection June 17, 2008
7 out of 7 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 4 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.
 Lots of games to play May 27, 2008
there are so many different games to play. I do wish the regular solitare game was included.
fun card game May 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this game for our DS and my husband to play. He can't put it down. Highly recommend it.
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