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 Observations

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..................................................By Don  Knox

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The game offers several variations: with and without sound, for points or for $$ ("Casino" option), turn 1 or 3 cards. The newer version(s) play in color on machines so equipped.
I have a Mac Plus (B/W screen). I had played 50(?) games before I realized that the hearts and diamonds actually appeared to be red.  On my B/W  monitor this is not possible, but they looked  red to me. I called in a consultant (one of my children) and after careful examination she pronounced that what I saw as "red" was actually gray. My own psyche made it red. "Klondike" keeps you from making mistakes, like putting a red 5 on a red 6. When you play for points, waiting costs you some. You get points for placing cards, you lose points with time passing. My own high score is 4809 (out of a -possible- 7500), which the instructions say is very good.

I find myself playing the game (I have made up a floppy with the game and a System so I don't have to use my hard disk) to relax before turning off the lights, and when I have 5 or 10 minutes to pass at odd times."Klondike", like the card game, offers decision branches on many plays. If you can pull a card from either of 2 stacks, which one? Unlike the card game, with "Klondike" you can never find out "what if?"  
(I can live with that.)

In closing I can say: "Try it, you might like it".