One designer’s ongoing quest to make the perfect mobile Solitaire
Thanks to the ubiquitous version that’s bundled with Windows, pretty much everyone has played a few rounds of digital Solitaire. But for Zach Gage, the most popular version of the game was lacking the variety and challenge found in the many real-world iterations of the card game. So two years ago he developed Sage Solitaire, an experience explicitly designed with a smartphone in mind, that fused Solitaire with Poker to add new elements of strategy. Now he’s taking a second shot at making the ideal mobile Solitaire by looking at the game from a slightly different angle. “I wanted to have another go at that design problem,” says Gage.
His new game Flip Flop Solitaire is based on Spider Solitaire, a variant that involves placing cards in 10…
