Sid Sackson's Bowling Solitaire Download

3/5

Developer: Broom Stix Ink
Genre: Puzzle
Works On: Windows 95-98, Windows XP

As the name suggests, this is two individual and completely different games in one.

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Gohst

Firstly, this game offers you two games at the cost of zero dollars. It’s free (like it should be on this site) and you get two games for the price of none. Double greatness.

The first game is “Bowling Solitaire” which is a concept I found strange and confusing judging by its name, but in actual fact, it played surprisingly well. Essentially it’s a mathematics based game where you select a tile, for example a “7” and you add the numbers of up to three adjacent pins to form either “7”, “17”, or “27”. If you knock out all the pins in this manner, your score gets higher – scoring is based on typical Ten-Pin Bowling score.

The second game is called “Solitaire Dice” which, as the rules say: “Scoring is quite difficult in this game” – and how! I only played this game a handful of times and managed to get negative 2400 points. I think it has something to do with those dots at the top of the screen. However, frustration and perplexity abounded and as such the game remains largely ignored in my mind.

Never the less, the first of the two games is wholly interesting and perpetually exciting in my books. The smashing together of two very unrelated genres has proved once again that experimentation is the key to success. Download for two games. Keep for one.

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