Poker Face Paul's Solitaire

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Poker Face Paul's Solitaire
System(s): Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega of America
Developer:
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Genre: Table

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Game Gear
US
2327
Videogame Rating Council: GA

Poker Face Paul's Solitaire is a solitaire game for the Sega Game Gear. It was only released in North America.

Gameplay

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Games

The game is a collection of four solitaire games. It uses a cursor interface where the D-Pad moves the hand-shaped cursor between cards and 1 or 2 picks up or places down a card.

In all games, there is a setting to enable hints. The game keeps statistics for games that have been played (though this information is lost when the console is powered off). Games are not counted in the statistics when hints are used.

During a game, the player can bring up a menu by pressing  START  that contains an option to read in-game instructions or quit and return back to the main menu to change options or start a different game.

Games

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Klondike
The goal is to move the entire deck onto the four bases, which are initially empty, in ascending order and with alternating red and black colors (in any suit). Only an Ace (the lowest card) can be moved onto an empty base. At the start of the game, there are seven rows of cards dealt onto the board face down. Each successive row is one card shorter than the last, with all of the cards face down except one at the end. The player can organize the cards using the seven rows, in descending order. Only a King (the highest card) can be moved onto a row once it has become empty. At the start of the game, there are 28 cards arranged in the rows, with the remaining 24 cards available in the deck. The player can draw additional cards from the deck one at a time; the deck can be cycled an unlimited number of times.

The game is won when all cards have been moved to the bases in the correct order or lost when there are no more moves that can be made. The player can choose a time limit between 6 and 10 minutes or no time limit. When hints are enabled, the game helps move cards to the correct bases. There are three different views available: Normal, Small 1, and Small 2. Normal and Small 1 show more of the cards but require panning to view the entire board. Small 2 is the default and the most compact view, only requiring panning when the rows grow.

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Elevens
The goal is to clear the board by removing the cards in pairs that add up to 11 (with Aces worth 1). The player can also match and remove any three cards of the same value that line up in a row, column, or diagonal or any three face cards. At the start of the game, the player deals out nine cards in three rows of three cards. Pairs are removed by selecting each card one at a time; when a card is removed, another one is automatically drawn from the deck and put in its place until no additional cards remain.

The game is won when all cards have been removed or lost when there are no more moves that can be made. The player can choose a time limit between 2 and 5 minutes or no time limit and a number of decks between 1 and 4. When hints are enabled, the game briefly flashes legal card combinations when they appear.

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Monte Carlo
The goal is to clear the board by removing the cards in pairs with the same face value (regardless of suit). The cards must be next to each other horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. At the start of the game, twenty cards are dealt out in four rows of five cards. When a pair of cards is removed, the cards below it are shifted up or from the right to fill the missing space (with additional cards dealt out to ensure that there are always twenty cards on the board, unless there are no more cards remaining).

The game is won when all cards have been removed or lost when there are no more moves that can be made. The player can choose a time limit between 2 and 5 minutes or no time limit and a number of decks between 1 and 4. When hints are enabled, the game briefly flashes legal card combinations when they appear.

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Calculation
The goal is to build four rows by laying the cards down in four different sequences:
  • The first row is formed by adding 1 to the last card 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, 1, and so on.
  • The second row is formed by adding 2 to the last card 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, Q, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, J, K, 2, and so on.
  • The third row is formed by adding 3 to the last card 3, 6, 9, Q, 2, 5, 8, J, 1, 4, 7, 10, K, 3 and so on.
  • The fourth row is formed by adding 4 to the last card 4, 8, Q, 3, 7, J, 2, 6, 10, 1, 5, 9, K, 4 and so on.

At the start of the game, there are four cards placed in four rows. The player pulls one card at a time from the deck and places it on one of the rows if possible. If there is no valid place for the card in one of the rows, the player must place the card in one of the four discard piles and draw another card from the deck. Multiple cards can be placed in any discard pile in any order, but only the top card can be removed and placed in a row. The player is only allowed a limited number of passes through the deck.

The game is won when all cards have been placed in the four rows or lost when there are no more moves that can be made. The player can choose a time limit between 4 and 7 minutes or no time limit and a number of passes between 1 and 4. When hints are enabled, the game shows the next card needed in each row.

Production credits

  • Executive Producer: Jay Smith
  • Producer: Steve Marsden
  • Programming: Dave De Pauw
  • Graphics: Robert Lever
  • Music and Effects: Mark Cooksey
  • Help System and Text: Matt Taylor
Source:
In-game credits
Poker Faced Paul's Solitaire GG credits.pdf
[1]

Source:
US manual
PFPS gg us manual.pdf
[2]


Magazine articles

Main article: Poker Face Paul's Solitaire/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #59: "June 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:
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Physical scans

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Poker Face Paul's Solitaire

Game Gear, US
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Game Gear
 ?
CRC32 0e9b0c0a
MD5 42a994671913ebab1dec1fc68494dbb3
SHA-1 141b53c7f85b50626c6619094f4f8f7bec3676d2
128kB Cartridge (US)

References


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