SoliLuxe 1.2

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• Price: Free
• Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
• Date added: August 19, 2009
• Total Downloads: 1,849
• Downloads last week: 120
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET staff on November 17, 2009

SoliLuxe features several versions of the popular card game solitaire. If you like to add a challenge to your game playing, you'll enjoy this program. The versions of the game included with SoliLuxe are a bit more complicated than regular solitaire. You can customize the look of the background and the cards and even add your own rules to the game.

SoliLuxe is attractively designed and easy to navigate. There are many different card deck designs to choose from, and you can also upload photos from your computer to make a custom deck. We've played computer solitaire, but we hadn't heard of the types of solitaire that SoliLuxe offers, such as "Batsford," "Spencer's Fairy Queen," and "Babette." We selected the first game from the list, "Batsford." The Info button opens instructions for uploading images into the program and other customizable options. Clicking the question mark icon in the program menu opens a brief explanation of the selected game's strategy; further instructions are in the Options menu, which is handy. Not only does it describe how to play each game, but also its difficulty. You can peruse all the games' descriptions and pick one that suits your level of challenge.

SoliLuxe is free, and it downloads, installs, and uninstalls with no problems. This is a creative and multifaceted approach to solitaire. Solitaire and card game lovers will enjoy this program.

Publisher's description

SoliLuxe is a brand new program designed for modern-day computers. That means a wide-screen aspect ratio, quality scalable graphics, and a b-i-g maximum card size. SoliLuxe stores the definitions of the various solitaire versions in user-accessible, plain-text xml files. Anyone can add another version of an existing game--or a completely new one - by adding an xml file to the /rules directory. A "Patience Programmer's Guide" is included to explain how to define a game. SoliLuxe uses user-accessible graphics files in standard PNG and JPEG formats. Add new backdrops and card sets just by adding .png and .jpg files to the /images directory. Although the Java JRE must be installed in the computer/OS where you want to run the game, the game doesn't need to be installed on each machine--pop it on a USB stick and take it with you wherever you go. Version 1.2 features 16 new games, new user interface graphics, and clock display.

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