Game Review: Fairway Solitaire HD

   Hey, everyone. Ever think that you'd like to leave the high pressure world of shooter games and just relax for a while? Try a game called Fairway Solitaire. This is a free card game with a golf flavor. In truth, the golf part is minimal. You have announcers, like in golf, and the game pretends that you are hitting good or bad shots as you play cards on top of one another. You have a deck to draw from and cards to pick from. The object is to play a card on the pile which is one higher or lower than the card exposed. If you can't do that you have to draw a card. If you run out of deck, you come up 'over par' for that hole. If you get rid of all the cards without using the whole deck, well, you are under par. There are several courses and several holes per course. The game is free, with in apps and a full game unlock for $2.99.
    This game is fun and a good time waster. Carley, the puzzler, likes it, as do I. I especially like the sounds of the birds tweeting and the waves crashing on the shore because you don't hear a lot of that around here in the winter. The bottom line about this game is this: you don't get stuck, you don't get mad, you just play. By the way, there are some gofers, not golfers, involved in a plot of some sort, though I haven't delved deeply enough to know what that plot is. It will probably be like the movie called Caddy Shack, where the gofer destroys a course, with the help of Bill Murray. Great movie.
    I would give this game 4 stars out of 5, but watch out for the in apps. Sometimes you might hit the wrong button.
From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
P.S. I like the music also. At the ocean-side course, they play a bit of Beach Boys style music. There is a bit of funny commentary, also.

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