[2009] Dec 28
- [Yukon] I've restored the cards back to their original larger size
[2009] Dec 28
- [Yukon] Cards are slightly smaller now for this game in order to allow more space for big stacks so they will not run off the bottom of the screen as often
[2009] Dec 24
- NEW GAME! Golf Strict has been implemented! Just like Golf, except nothing can be placed on a King
- NEW GAME! Tri Peaks (Hidden) has been implemented! Just like Tri Peaks, except buried Tableau cards start out hidden
- NEW GAME! Tri Peaks Strict (Hidden) has been implemented! Just like Tri Peaks Strict, except buried Tableau cards start out hidden
- Removed the 'Skill' category for games. It was always confusing and not very useful.
- If "Auto Flip Cards" is turned off, manually flipping a card is now correctly undone when you Undo a move
- The "World of Solitaire Blog" link or the links on the About window will now open in a new window when clicked
[2009] Nov 11
- Global statistics and Leaderboards are now updated every 3 hours instead of once a day
[2009] Nov 7
- NEW GAME! Montana Relaxed has been implemented! Just like Montana, but you get 3 redeals instead of just 2.
- Global statistics are now updated once a day instead of every 6 hours
- Fixed a bug with the 'Hide these ads' link if you clicked after winning a game
[2009] Nov 3
- [Canfield] Fixed a bug where the Reserve spot would not automatically flip over the next card
[2009] Oct 3
- NEW DECK! The 'Egypt' deck is now available under the 'Decks' menu!
[2009] Sep 15
- Optimized the images so that they will load faster, this should improve speed when first coming to the site, changing decks or playing a different game
- Fixed a bug where sometimes when you clicked on a card, it didn't work and you had to click it twice.
- [Royal Parade] Fixed a bug where non-Ace cards would go to the Waste pile
[2009] Aug 26
- The number of wins required for the 'Highest Percentage Won' leaderboard is now different per game.
[2009] May 22
- Changed the number of wins required for the leaderboard back to 50. This is not final, I am trying to determine the best way to handle this.
[2009] May 20
- 250 wins are now required (was 50) to be in the highest percentage win leaderboards
- You can now hide the ad by clicking the 'Hide these ads' link above the ad
[2009] May 12
- Loading the web page should be faster now
- Fixed a typo in the rules for Yukon
[2009] May 4
- Minor changes to the Bear River rules and credits
[2009] April 29
- NEW GAME! Bear River has been implemented! (Bear River is a Solitaire game by The Levin Family)
- 'Most Games Won' leaderboard now shows 25 entries again.
[2009] April 28
- Added 'Highest Percentage Won' leaderboard. Most often user requested feature :)
- Added a 'ShareThis' link at the bottom to allow you to share World of Solitaire more easily
[2009] April 24
- Dealing a new hand should be much faster now when using Firefox
[2009] April 19
- Some minor text changes in the app
[2008] September 9
- Fixed a bug that caused cards to flicker when using Firefox 3
- [Royal Parade] Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed non-aces to be placed on the Waste spot
- [Canfield] Fixed a bug that prevented you from undo-ing after an auto-fill took place
[2008] June 30
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the cards to have a 'blue haze'
[2008] June 27
- NEW OPTION! 'Menu Requires Click to Activate' option is now available under the Options menu.
-- When this option is checked then the menu will require you to click on it in order to activate it
-- This will help to prevent accidental showing of the menu. This option was requested by many players.
[2008] June 16
- Fixed a bug where the 'Resizing Cards' progress bar would show continually over and over
[2008] June 10
- Fixed a bug where the cards would not automatically get bigger if you resized your browser window during dealing
[2008] June 9
- [Golf] Fixed an bug in the visuals when moving cards to the foundation
- On the 'Deck: See More Decks' window when selecting a deck, the Artist's Name and Website link now appears below the card images
[2008] June 7
- NEW GAME! Easthaven has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Easthaven (Kings Only) has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Double Easthaven has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Double Easthaven (Kings Only) has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Triple Easthaven has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Triple Easthaven (Kings Only) has been implemented!
- Added a 'Recently Played' folder to the Game Chooser. This shows the last 5 games you played.
- Moved the Alphabetical list of games in the Game Chooser lower down in order to show the other folder categories
- Updated the 'Games - by Time' category to be more precise and updated the games info to match statistical info
- Updated the 'Games - by Difficulty' category to be more precise and updated the games info to match statistical info
- [Golf] Fixed a minor visual layout glitch
[2008] June 4
- NEW GAME! Royal Parade has been implemented!
[2008] May 15
- There is now an 'Offline' version avaiable. Find it under the "Solitaire: About World of Solitaire..." menu
[2008] April 24
- Now if you move an Auto Played card, it won't try and auto play it again until you've made another move yourself.
- Fixed a bug in Internet Explorer where the names of the cards would appear as tooltips on top of the card when holding your mouse over a card
[2008] April 12
- Cards are now centered horizontally. This makes things look better on widescreen monitors
- Fixed an Internet Explorer 6.0 only bug that caused selecting different decks in the Decks window to not correctly show the card images
[2008] March 30
- The Deck menu has been changed!
-- It now only shows the top 4 most used decks.
-- There is a link to 'See More Decks...' that pops up a 'Deck' window.
-- This window allows you to browse all decks, and see a preview of ALL the cards contained in that deck.
-- These previews give you the ability to admire the decks in high detail
- Larger sizes of existing decks have been added. Playing using a large computer screen should be much more enjoyable now :)
[2008] March 29
- NEW GAME! Eight Off has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Baker's Game has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Baker's Game (Kings Only) has been implemented!
[2008] March 23
- NEW GAME! Russian Solitaire has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Double Klondike (Turn One) has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Double Klondike (Turn Three) has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Triple Klondike (Turn One) has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Triple Klondike (Turn Three) has been implemented!
- Global statistics and Leaderboards are now updated every 5 minutes instead of every 10 minutes
[2008] March 22
- NEW GAME! Cruel (Traditional Redeal) has been implemented!
- [Cruel] Fixed a bug that caused sort order to be incorrect after redealing
- [Cruel] Fixed a bug that caused you not to be able to drag a card
- I've enhanced the timeline graphs to be more accurate
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the Leaderboards from filling
- Fixed a bug that caused the ordering of the leaderbaords to slightly incorrect with records made on the same day
[2008] March 16
- NEW GAME! Cruel has been implemented!
[2008] March 11
- The Timeline graph in the Statistics is now working again! Nice and fast this time.
[2008] March 5
- Fixed the dates on the Leaderboard. They were wrong, they are now correct
- [Spider] Fixed a bug where completed piles were not moved to the foundation if dealing 10 cards is what caused the pile to be completed
[2008] March 1
- Fixed a bug where after logging in if you won the game you were playing it would not record it correctly
- Due to this bug fix, some users may notice the 'Number Won' for games of Free Cell and Klondike to be less than before, Sorry
[2008] February 29
- Fixed a bug that caused the base images to not show up in Internet Explorer 6 sometimes
[2008] February 15
- The leaderboards have been fixed!
- The Shortest Time and Fewest Moves leader boards now only show 1 entry per user, their best entry
- Global statistics now update every 10 minutes!
[2008] February 14
- The timeline statistics should now always be in the correct order
[2008] February 13
- When you Undo a move, it now only undoes the very last move and only one move
- After you undo a move auto play won't make a move again until you yourself make a move first
- Statistics viewing should be faster now
[2008] January 27
- Fixed some bugs that caused spacing between cards to be too small or too large
[2008] January 26
- NEW GAME! La Belle Lucie has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Three Shuffles and a Draw has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Trefoil has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Trefoil and a Draw has been implemented!
[2008] January 25
- [Tri Peaks] Fixed a bug that caused lower cards to not be movable even when uncovered
[2008] January 24
- NEW GAME! Tri Peaks has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Tri Peaks Strict has been implemented!
- [Golf] [Golf Relaxed] You no longer need to clear the Stock to win, just the Tableau spots
- [Sultan] Auto Play is now available
- Undo Move now undos the last move that YOU made yourself. Any Auto Moves made since then are also undone
- Auto Play does not activate now until you make a move yourself first
- Fixed the spacing on the Timeline statistics so you can read the dates and the actual numbers on the left
- If you haven't played or haven't won any hands, the statistics now show correctly and in a timely manner
[2008] January 21
- Finally tracked down a bug that caused cards to be messed up, usually resulting in Spider being unwinnable
[2008] January 14
- New Help feature! If you click on the blue question mark in the top right corner rules for the game you are playing will be shown
- You can move your mouse over sections that have a magnifying glass to see those sections in the game higlighted for you
- You can resize this help section by dragging the gray bar on the left side of the help
- Click on the blue question mark again to dismiss the help
[2008] January 12
- Fixed a bug that could cause cards to become messed up when you undo moves
[2008] January 9
- NEW DECK!!! The 'Oxygen - White' deck has been added! Enjoy!
[2008] January 4
- World of Solitaire is now on a new server! Benefits of this include:
-- Overall, things should be a bit speedier
-- There should no longer be any problems with being unable to log in or statistics not being saved correctly
-- Statistics should be a be more accurate
-- Room for growth!
[2007] December 15
- Added a new statistic for the average time spent playing a game (Average Length). Renamed some of the other stats to fit better
- Added another slice to the 'Most Played Games' statistics pie
- Fixed a bug that caused Pyramid and several other games to be broken! SORRY!
[2007] December 14
- NEW GAME! Flower Garden has been implemented!
- Added a 'Percentage' next to the 'Hands Won' and 'Hands Dealt' statistics in the Statistics window.
- Fixed some bugs that caused some games (like Sultan) to not correctly begin when dealing a new hand.
[2007] December 4
- NEW GAME! Sultan has been implemented!
[2007] November 29
- [Clock] Fixed a bug that caused the center card to not be flippable when starting a new game of Clock
[2007] November 26
- Fixed a bug that caused selecting FreeCell or Seahaven Towers to actually start Clock instead
[2007] November 25
- NEW GAME! Clock has been implemented!
[2007] November 5
- NEW DECK!!! The 'Animals' deck has been added! Enjoy!
- Loading of the game and choosing new decks should hopefully be faster
[2007] September 24
- Fixed a bug that caused the default options to sometimes override the options you have saved for your username
[2007] September 21
- [FreeCell] [Seahaven Towers] Fixed a bug that allowed you to drag a complete stack of cards to another even if it was out of order
[2007] September 19
- NEW GAME! Golf Relaxed has been implemented!
- [FreeCell] [Seahaven Towers] Fixed two bugs that allowed you to drag a stack of cards to a Free Cell or on top of another stack
[2007] September 17
- [Baker's Dozen] If multiple kings appear in a stack they are now correctly placed on the bottom of the stack.
[2007] September 16
- [Canfield] Fixed a bug that prevented you from being able to redeal! Sorry!
- [Aces Up] Fixed a bug allowing you to remove aces as if they were 'low'
- [Pyramid] Fixed a bug where if you Undid the re-deal of cards you wouldn't get a redeal back
- [Montana] When you undeal a Redeal click all the reshufled cards are now redealt and you get a redeal option again
[2007] September 15
- NEW DECK!!! The 'Majestic' deck has been added! Enjoy!
- Base cards that are clickable (to redeal cards) now have a 'Redeal' icon
- Base cards that are no longer clickable (but were once) now turn into a 'Stop' icon
- Foundations that you build up upon now have a four suit pattern in the middle so you know what they are
[2007] September 14
- Your Options are now saved to your username automatically and loaded whenever and wherever you login.
- Fixed a bug that caused the tooltips to appear underneath cards
[2007] September 13
- [Spider] [Scorpion] Fixed a bug preventing you from winning these games (incorrect number of foundations). Sorry about that.
[2007] September 12
- NEW GAME! Scorpion has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Aces Up has been implemented!
- Fixed a bug preventing games from being won
- I hopefully have fixed some bugs in the Registration system
[2007] September 11
- The timer no longer stops when changing decks or resizing the screen mid-game
- [Spider] You can no longer undo the deal one card at a time
[2007] September 10
- NEW GAME! Montana has been implemented!
- Fixed a bug in the random number generator. Cards should be better randomized now.
[2007] September 9
- A Leaderboard is now available in the Statistics window!
- I created a blog for the site:
http://worldofsolitaire.blogspot.com/
[2007] September 8
- Several games should have nicer looking and larger cards when using the 'Best Looking Cards' option
- [Seahaven Towers] Tweaked the game to correctly match the official Seahaven Towers rules:
- [Seahaven Towers] The last two cards dealt are now dealt to the middle two free cells
- [Seahaven Towers] You can no longer move a card from the cells to an empty spot unless it is a king
- [Yukon] Fixed the documentation to match the way the game is implemented
[2007] September 4
- The site should load up faster now
- When clicking the 'View Statistics' button on the 'You Win' screen, the statistics show for the game you just won
[2007] September 2
- Added new Green Felt background texture
- The Ornamental deck now exposes a bit more of itself when stacked so you can read what suit cards underneath are
- The pie charts shown for individual games now work
[2007] September 1
- I've implemented a work-around for the FireFox issues with showing the wrong card images for certain cards
- [Spider] The 1 Suit and 2 Suit versions now choose random suits instead of always being the same one
- Cards with different art on them are now supported. Right now this only affects the Dondorf deck
- Fixed a bug that caused the 'You Win' screen to remain after starting a new game using the menu
[2007] August 31
- You can now change the background! Choose from two new patterns or enter your own web address to an image.
[2007] August 30
- [Spider] Fixed a bug that caused the cards to get messed up preventing you from winning
- [Spider] Fixed a bug that could cause cards to be upside down if when dealing from the stock you complete a stack
[2007] August 29
- NEW GAME! Spider (2 Suits) has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Spider (1 Suit) has been implemented!
- The Statistics can now be viewed per game!
- [Spider] Fixed a bug that would not remove a set of 13 suited cards when it was supposed to
- [Spider] Fixed a bug that allowed you to deal new cards when a tableau spot was empty
- Fixed a bug allowing you to undo moves when you shouldn't have been able to
[2007] August 26
- NEW GAME! Baker's Dozen has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Spanish Patience has been implemented!
- NEW GAME! Castles in Spain has been implemented!
- Removed the 'Chance of Winning' game info. It was not accurate.
- Added groupings by 'Skill' and 'Difficulty' to the game chooser
- [Pyramid] Fixed a bug that caused the cards to behave oddly after undoing a move.
- Fixed an Internet Explorer bug causing the Game Chooser to be messed up
- Fixed an infinite loop in Internet Explorer when animation was disabled
[2007] August 25
- [FreeCell] [Seahaven Towers] You can now move one complete stack to another empty tableau.
- [Yukon] Fixed a bug that caused stacks to be limited to 14 to 20 cards.
- Fixed a bug in the Timeline graph. Correct values now appear.
[2007] August 24
- NEW GAME! Golf has been implemented!
[2007] August 23
- Improved the speed of loading the dialogs for the first time
[2007] August 22
- NEW GAME! Seahaven Towers has been implemented!
- [FreeCell] Fixed a bug that allowed you to drop one more card than rules allow for on a blank spot
[2007] August 20
- You can now register an account in order to keep your statistics forever and play on multiple computers.
[2007] Any stats you've already accumulated are safe and when you register they will stay with the Username you create.
- You can now hit 'Escape' to exit out of dialog boxes
- Changed the way I preloaded images (again). Should fix problems some folks had loading up the game
[2007] August 19
- The 'You Win!' screen has been enhanced
- Added an 'Other' slice to the Statistic pies
- Fixed Internet Explorer 6 bug that caused the new Statistics page to not show correctly
- Fixed some minor graphical and layout glitches in IE6 and IE7
[2007] August 18
- The Statistics have been GREATLY enhanced. You should check them out under the Solitaire menu
- Fixed a bug that caused the Timer to not reset between games
[2007] August 17
- NEW DECK! Anglo-American deck is now available!
[2007] August 14
- Improved performance when dealing with cards on stacks that have lots of cards underneath
[2007] August 13
- NEW GAME! Canfield has been implemented!
- The 'Stack Count' and 'Card' mouse over labels are no longer bold. They also no longer vanish
- Fixed some browser specific bugs (Safari, IE)
- Added some code to enable in the future much nicer statistics
[2007] August 12
- Safari and Konqueror should now work okay again!
- The 'Select Game' dialog has been improved.
- Fixed bugs that caused the popup boxes to not show up
[2007] August 11
- Fixed a bug that caused undoing a stack move to reverse the direction of the cards
- Changed the way images are preloaded. Hopefully this should fix bugs where you would see empty images, or the wrong cards
[2007] August 10
- [Yukon] [Forty Thieves] Both now turn over their initial cards faster
[2007] August 9
- Forty Thieves has been implemented!
- [Yukon] Initial turning over of dealt cards is now faster
- The web page should load up faster now.
[2007] August 8
- Yukon has been implemented!
[2007] August 7
- For the fifth time I have hopefully now fixed the bug causing certain cards to appear underneath others
- [FreeCell] Fixed a bug that allowed you to drop a stack of cards on a free cell
- [Spider] Removed the top base borders since you can't directly interact with them
[2007] August 6
- Hopefully I fixed a bug that could cause cards to mistakenly appear underneath others
- [Klondike Turn Three] When you turn 3 cards over they flip over instantly now
[2007] August 5
- Added three new variations of Pyramid
- Added 'Chance of Winning' stat to the Select Game game info
- Fixed a bug that caused Pyramid to be unwinnable
- Fixed a bug that caused certain options (such as auto flip and animation) to be turned off
- Fixed a bug causing some cards to go underneath others when they should be on top
- Fixed a bug caused when resizing after you've won
- Fixed some minor graphical issues that only showed up in Internet Explorer 7
[2007] August 4
- Spider has been implemented!
- Auto Play Everything has been removed as an option
[2007] August 3
- You can now undo moves! Find it under the Solitaire menu
- FreeCell has been implemented! It hasn't been fully tested, please report bugs to me
- There is now an 'About World of Solitaire' item in the Solitaire menu
- A Stack Count and Card name is now shown in the bottom left corner when hovering over cards
[2007] August 2
- Timer doesn't start now until after you make a move
- Bare bone statistics are now implemented and are also now showed after winning
[2007] July 30
- There is now an 'Animation Speed' slider available in the Options menu
[2007] July 29
- A timer, score and moves made counter is now available. Can turn on/off in the Options menu
- The menu is now disabled during important operations (such as dealing)
- The game no longer detects when no moves remain. It *may* return at a future date
- Fixed some bugs dealing with when you were dragging cards that are involved in auto-plays
[2007] July 28
- Animations when interacting with cards should look nicer now
- An 'Auto Play Everything' option has been added. It has the computer play everything automatically
- The game now detects when no more moves are possible
- A 'You Won!' or 'No Moves Left' window now appears after winning fireworks or after you've lost
- Cards should be randomzied better now
- Several bugs have been fixed and tweeks made
[2007] July 25
- Dealing and turning over cards should be quicker
- The 'Select Game' window should now work correctly in IE6
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from being able to win Pyramid
- Fixed some other bugs
[2007] July 24
- Added a new game! Pyramid!
- Changed the way cards are initially dealt and turned over to be friendlier to slower computers
- The Select Game dialog has been enhanced and should work well now on all browsers (known bug in IE6)
[2007] July 19
- The winning animation is now speedier
- Dragging cards around the screen should not be laggy anymore
- Chosen Deck/Game/Options are now saved correctly in Safari too
- Fixed some bugs
[2007] July 18
- The animation when you win is much cooler now. Big thanks to Peter Vel for coming up with it!
- You can now choose additional Solitaire games! Choose 'Select Game' from the Solitaire menu.
- Increased the empty space between the menu/left side and the playspace area
- The menu will no longer activate while you are dragging a card
- Fixed a bug where if you dealt a new game during the win animation your new game would be cleared accidentally
- Fixed some other bugs
[2007] July 17
- The options and deck you choose are now saved and reloaded next time you come back to play
- You can no longer drag a card outside of the playspace
- [Klondike] The card animations when turning over 3 cards are now faster
- Fixed a bug where cards could become out of place if multiple animations took place on the same card at once
- Fixed a bug under Opera that allowed you to scroll the outside of the playspace by using the mousewheel
[2007] July 16
- Automatic Play options are now available under the Options menu
[2007] July 15
- You are now rewarded for winning! Enjoy!
- Bug Fix: Your deck choice is no longer lost when choosing to deal new cards
[2007] July 14
- You can now start a new game by just choosing 'Deal New Cards' from the Solitaire menu
- The menu has been redone. It looks nicer and now it works in Internet Explorer
- New options to turn off animation for cards or just for dealing are now available under the Options menu
[2007] July 13
- There is now a 'Last Updated' timestamp in the bottom left corner
- A history of changes is now available by clicking (changes) in the bottom left corner
- Status dialogs no longer fade in or out when being shown, this is to speed things up
[2007] July 12
- A new deck has been added: 'Oxygen'
[2007] July 11
- Decreased how long it takes to load new card images. It should be MUCH faster now
- A status bar now appears during the initial loading of the game
[2007] July 10
- [Klondike] You can now double click cards to automatically move cards to the foundations
- An 'Auto Flip Cards' option is now available and enabled by default.