Friday, May 20, 2016

Mahjong Titans for Windows 10

Mahjong Titans is a solitaire game played with colorful tiles instead of cards. Remove all the tiles from the board. Each game begins with 144 tiles, arranged into six different layouts: Turtle, Dragon, Cat, Fortress, Crab, and Spider. There are three basic tiles: Ball, Bamboo, and Character. Each of these tiles is numbered one through nine. There are also four special tiles: Winds, Flowers, Dragons, and Seasons. Some of these tiles are marked with a letter.

How to play:
To remove a tile, it must be free. That is, it must be capable of coming off the pile without moving other tiles. If you rest your mouse over a tile and it lights up, it means that tile is free. If you attempt to remove a tile that isn't free, Windows will let you know.
In most cases, you must match tiles exactly to remove them. But there are two exceptions: You can pick any two flower or season tiles.

Hints and tips:
1. Ask for a hint. Stuck? Press the H key and Windows will light up the next matching pair. You can also right-click a single tile. If there's a match available, it will flash.
2. Use Undo. To erase a move, press Ctrl+Z. You can erase as many moves as you like, but you'll be penalized two points each time.
3. Pick up bonus points. The order in which you remove tiles from the pile can dramatically affect your score. Removing identically matched pairs in a row earns you a bonus (especially if they're the same pattern and number). You also earn extra points for clearing both pairs of flower or season tiles in a row.

Mahjong Titans is one of pre-installed games on Windows 7 but not on Windows 8 and Windows 10. Now you want to move Mahjong Titans to Windows 10 so you can play one of your favorite games on the newest Windows? Easy! To play Mahjong Titans Windows 7 on Windows 10, you can download it here.

Hearts for Windows 10

Hearts is a popular and fast-paced card game for four players. In the Windows version, all three of your opponents are played by the computer. To score as few points as possible. Hearts is played with a single deck of 52 cards. Your opponents (played by your computer) are West, North, and East. Each player receives 13 cards.

How to play:
Players begin each hand by passing three cards to their opponent (except for every fourth hand, when no cards are passed). The player holding the two of clubs plays that card to start the first trick (game-speak for the cards played in a single round).
Players must follow with a card from the same suit. If you don't have one, you can play any card (except during the first trick, when you can't play a heart or the queen of spades).
Whoever plays the highest card takes the trick and starts the next round. In Hearts, the cards are ranked from ace (high) to two (low).
Players can start subsequent tricks with a card from any suit. The exception is hearts. You can't play a heart unless someone has played one in a previous trick. (Or, in game parlance, until hearts have been broken.)
The goal in hearts is to pass all your hearts to other players (who are also trying to pass theirs to you). The game ends when a player reaches 100 points. At that point, the player with the fewest total points wins.

Scoring:
Each heart in a trick equals 1 point. The queen of spades is worth 13 points.

Hints and tips:
1. Take tricks with high cards. If you have to take a trick, use the higher of your cards to do it. You can use the lowest card in your hand to lead the next trick. Opening with a low card will often keep other players from ducking the trick by playing a lower card. Ducking, or avoiding having to pick up cards, usually helps your opponents.
2. Don't pick up hearts or the queen of spades. You only want them when you are trying to shoot the moon or trying to prevent someone else from shooting the moon.
3. Shoot the moon. In Hearts, a player who "shoots the moon" has amassed all the available hearts and the queen of spades. Your opponents automatically earn 26 points. Your score remains unchanged.
4. Pass high cards. On hands that begin by passing cards to an opponent, pass aces or face cards if you can.
5. Count cards. Keep track of played cards—particularly the queen of spades—and whether hearts have been broken. That way, you know if an opponent might be preparing to shoot the moon.
6. Hold on to the ace of hearts. Almost no other card gives you so much control, especially over situations such as who shoots the moon.

Hearts is one of pre-installed games on Windows XP and Windows 7 but not on Windows 8 and Windows 10. Now you want to move Hearts to Windows 10 so you can play one of your favorite games on the newest Windows? Easy! To play Hearts XP on Windows 10, read here to know how to. To play Hearts Windows 7 on Windows 10, you can download it here.

FreeCell for Windows 10

FreeCell is a form of solitaire played with a single deck. The key to victory lies in the four free cells in the corner of the table—hence the name! Create four stacks of 13 cards, one per suit in each of the four home cells. Each stack must be built from the low card (ace) to the high (king). FreeCell is played with a single deck of 52 cards, dealt face up into eight columns. You'll draw from these columns to build your four stacks. In the upper-left corner are four free cells, where you temporarily store cards during play. In the upper-right corner are four home cells, where you build the stacks needed to win.

How to play:
Draw cards from the bottom of each column and move them in the following ways:
1. From column to free cell. Only one card can occupy each free cell at a time.
2. From column to column (or free cell to column). Cards must be placed on a column in descending sequential order, and alternating red and black.
3. From column to home cell. Each stack must consist of a single suit, and start with an ace.

Hints and tips:
1. Ask for hints. Stuck? Press the H key to light up your next move.
2. Uncover buried cards. If you can't clearly see a card, right-click it. The card will remain visible as long as you hold down the mouse button.
3. Play it again, Windows. To play the same hand over, note the game number at the bottom-left corner of the screen, click the Game menu, click Select Game, and then type in that number. It's a fun way to test a different strategy, or to see if a friend could have played the same hand any better.
4. Plan ahead. Move cards deliberately to establish long runs, clear columns, and bring home aces.
5. Aces first. When low cards are buried in a column, it's better to dig them out and move them to a home cell early.
6. Free up free cells. The more available free cells there are, the easier it is to shift cards around. Aim to leave a free cell empty when a move is complete.
7. Clear whole columns. Whenever possible, move every card from a column and fill it again starting with as high a card as possible—ideally, nothing lower than a ten. Kings are best.

FreeCell is one of pre-installed games on Windows XP and Windows 7 but not on Windows 8 and Windows 10. Now you want to move FreeCell to Windows 10 so you can play one of your favorite games on the newest Windows? Easy! To play FreeCell XP on Windows 10, read here to know how to. To play FreeCell Windows 7 on Windows 10, you can download it here.

Chess Titans for Windows 10

Chess Titans is a game for two players, dubbed White and Black. The goal is to capture your opponent's king. In the game, this is known as a checkmate. Chess is played on a board with 64 squares. Each player begins with 16 pieces, lined up in two rows. The first row is occupied by pieces called pawns. The next row contains: a king, a queen, two rooks, two bishops, and two knights.

How to play:
White goes first, then players alternate turns. Click a piece and then click the square where you want to move it. When you select a piece, Chess Titans shows you where it can move by highlighting the square in blue; squares with enemy pieces available for capture are shown in red.

How to move:
King: One square in any direction—forward, backward, sideways, or diagonally. The king is the game's weakest piece, and its most important.

Queen: An unlimited number of unoccupied squares in any direction. The queen is the game's most powerful piece.

Rook: An unlimited number of unoccupied squares, but only forward, backward, or sideways.

Bishop: An unlimited number of unoccupied squares, but only diagonally.

Knight: In the shape of an "L"—two squares in any direction, a 90-degree turn, and then one more square. The knight is the oddball of the game. Knights are also the only pieces that are allowed to jump other pieces.

Pawn: Two squares forward on its first move, one square forward thereafter. Exception: pawns capture enemy pieces by moving diagonally.

It's illegal to move into a square occupied by one of your own pieces. If you enter a square held by your opponent, the occupying piece is deemed captured and removed from the board.

A checkmate occurs when the king is trapped by an enemy piece with no available escape route. When this happens, the king's square will glow red.

Common maneuvers:
Castling: This defensive maneuver—designed to protect your king—involves moving two pieces at once. It's the only time in chess that this is legal. In a castle, the king moves two spaces sideways, while the rook moves to the space the king skipped over. You're only allowed to castle if your king and rook are both in their original positions, the king isn't in check, and there are no pieces blocking the maneuver. If castling is possible, Chess Titans shows where the king should go by turning the square purple. To make the move, click the square.

En passant: This rare but useful offensive move—from the French for "in passing"—is legal only under certain circumstances. It occurs when one of your pawns is stationed in the fifth row, and an enemy pawn in an adjacent column attempts to advance two squares on its first move. Normally the enemy pawn would evade capture (remember: pawns attack on the diagonal). By employing an en passant, you can move your piece diagonally to the empty square behind the enemy pawn to capture it. This is legal only if executed immediately following the enemy pawn's first move.

Pawn promotion
Advance a pawn clear across the board, and you can promote it to rook, knight, bishop, or queen. This increases the number of powerful pieces in your army. Upgrading to queen is typically the best strategy.

Chess Titans is one of pre-installed games on Windows 7 but not on Windows 8 and Windows 10. Now you want to move Chess Titans to Windows 10 so you can play one of your favorite games on the newest Windows? Easy! To play Chess Titans Windows 7 on Windows 10, you can download it here.