Solitaire is old as time itself. Okay well maybe as old as playing cards. Actually in British English it’s known as “Patience”. In any case, Tri Towers, also known as Tri Peaks, Three Peaks, or Triple Peaks is a solitaire variation, and was actually created in 1989 by Robert Hogue. So it’s actually a fairly new game. In any case 18 cards are placed face down in three, three-tiered pyramids. (In other words 6 in each pyramid with 3 levels). Over these are ten face up cards placed along the bottom “row”. The rest are used as a “stock” pile. Then there’s the waste pile, one card is turned over for that. The point of the game is to get the next higher or lower in rank as the card in the waste pile, into which it also goes in the waste pile. For instance a 5, can either have a 6 or a 4 laid on it. It doesn’t matter what suit it is or color it is. Once you can’t find anymore cards to put into the waste pile, you can start going through the stock pile until you do. You keep playing it until you’ve either cleared all the cards in the pyramid or wasted all you stock pile cards. If you clear it, you win.
Posts Tagged ‘Glowing Eye Games’
Tri-Tower Solitaire – As if there aren’t enough solitaire games out there.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Star Crash – Sorry, no Caroline Munro – Flash
Friday, March 27th, 2009
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My next Flash Friday entry is called Star Crash by Glowing Eye Games. We’re not talking about some cheesy 70’s B-grade star wars rip-off either. We’re talking about a flash game. I really don’t know what this game has to do with stars other than the space backdrops, or maybe the flying, blue, glowy, thingy. But it’s a simple game where you collect the blue glowy “stars” and orange glowing spirals. You must simply avoid the red glowy thingies, or else it’s game over. It’s simply a survival and get points game. Nothing spectacular. Also your mouse cursor is an eye, a glowing eye. I mean how weird is that? It’s not that bad to play though. It does start to get frantic. This is a good example of a beginners game. If you want to get your feet wet making a game, do the simplest thing possible. |
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