I mean, I get it, ‘pyramid’ is right there in the name, and we generally think of the ancient Egyptians as pretty clever people who probably dabbled in tile matching puzzles all day long, but this theme just does nothing for me anymore. It has to be one of the most overused themes in all of puzzle gaming, and as I mentioned, almost every Pyramid game on the App Store already uses it. My first disappointment is that they opted to go for the Egyptian theme. What I got wasn’t exactly what I had expected or hoped for, but it’s still an okay puzzle game on its own merits. I enjoy King’s games well enough to a point, and since solitaire is already a game where your ability to proceed is heavily influenced by pure luck, one of my big reoccurring problems with King’s games might be masked. With that in mind, I was sort of looking forward to King’s take on the game, Pyramid Solitaire Saga (Free). It’s a digging game, and you know how I love those. In terms of gameplay, Spider is somewhat similar to the popular Klondike game, while Pyramid feels a little bit more like Mahjong solitaire, where you have to get to the bottom of a pile by working from the outside in.
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Spider games tend to use a pretty plain theme, perhaps in an attempt to evoke Microsoft’s popular Spider Solitaire PC game, while Pyramid games seem to be content with the low-hanging fruit that is an Egyptian theme. The most popular variants of solitaire on the App Store are Spider and Pyramid. Virtually no one wants to play straight Klondike solitaire any more than they want to do math problems if they can help it, but variants remain appealing, particularly if you twist in some ideas from other games. Nowadays, solitaire can only get by with a little help from its friends. As the Internet and computers themselves became faster, and equally mindless but more colorful timewasters became prevalent, solitaire faded back into the pits from whence it came. You could even choose the design for the back of the cards! These were the salad days for solitaire. Suddenly there was all kinds of waiting to do, and a game of solitaire was just a couple of clicks away, no shuffling or cleaning up required. That all changed with the advent of home computers becoming the norm instead of an exception, especially once the Internet started existing in the basic form we know it as today. You would see people playing it in the movies, usually in prison or something like that, but there were a million things more fun to do than play solitaire even if you were alone, such as counting the lines on the carpet pattern. When I was a kid, nobody ever played solitaire.
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