It’s Tuesday again and that means it’s Tips Day! Each Tuesday we’ll be showcasing one of Pogo.com’s games and collecting your tips, insights, and hints for playing the games, earning more tokens in them, and earning their badges more easily.
Let’s share our tips for Rainy Day Spider Solitaire this week. There are a total of 50 Rainy Day Spider Solitaire ranks, and you can earn a total of five rank badges as you rank up. The weekly and mix-n-match badges available are for these types of challenges:
* Earn X tokens
* Win X games (in a row)
* Win X games with at least one unused free cell
* Win X games without using any Bonus ‘Free Columns’
* Win X games on Y difficulty level
* Clear X foundation stacks
* Clear X suited sets
We’ve got some great Rainy Day Solitaire tips already (thanks to Joe), but we’d love your input too. Please share your own tips for ranking up, earning more tokens, and/or completing these badges easier and faster in a comment below.
drkchclvr says
The only thing I would add is to use the undo button to see which options are the better ones…
jaredph says
Using the extra column and free cells is almost always a good idea, since you only get 5 tokens for each one you don’t use.
Seska42 says
If you aren’t getting proper credit toward a badge wanting unused Free Cells or unused Free Columns, there’s a good reason.
Since the change to Flash, credit in the stats for unused Free Columns are being added to the unused Free Cells stat and vice versa.
So, getting 2 unused Free Cells increases your stat for unused Free Columns by two. Getting 1 unused Free Column adds one to the unused Free Cell stat.
Pogo says they are working on the problem.
Caren says
More tips for hard:
Always try to leave the extra column with either one card or a run of card of the same suit, so it will be easier to make it empty again. When you pick a new pile to deal, see if there is one that will clear the free column again. (If the extra column has 4,3,2 clubs and there is a new pile with a 5 pick that one).
Since I care about my stats, if I can’t win I undo sometimes back to the beginning of the last deal and try to clear a different column. I usually can win every hand by trying different combinations. You can’t undo past the last deal, or past when you remove a suit.
Hard is fast to rank up in until the last 5 ranks. After I reset my stats I kept track of the rank progress. I’m up to rank 47. Here are the stats for each rank:
Ranks Percentage (# of Games) per rank
1-10 80% (1 1/4)
11-20 40% (2 1/2)
21-40 26.67% (3 3/4)
41-45 20% (5)
46-50? 8% (12 1/2)