Pyramid Solitaire (Microsoft Solitaire Collection)

To continue this week's emerging theme, I played another selection from the Microsoft Solitaire Collection: Pyramid Solitaire. I used to play this a lot too. It can be pretty mind-numbing, which can be nice.

If you aren't familiar, you pair up cards that equal 13 in face value, and they disappear. So Kings don't need to be paired up, Queens pair with Aces, Jacks with 2s, 10s with 3s, etc. Suits are irrelevant.

I used to play a version, I don't know where from, where you could pair a card with a card underneath it in the pyramid as long as it was exposed on one side. So for example, in the video above, once that 4 in the middle of the bottom row is removed, I'd be able to pair the 2 to the right of it and the J half-exposed by the 4. But you can't do that in this version.

I also learned something that didn't come up last night playing Freecell... Microsoft Solitaire Collection has ads. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But it's annoying. They're unskippable, and they aren't blocked by Ublock or Ghostery or anything, because it's not in the browser; it's its own app.