Solitaire Draw Three

Question

When playing Solitaire in Draw Three mode I have noticed there is a problem with how the game is designed. Usually when you play draw three, you draw three cards at a time. You might be able to play the bottom card, prehaps an Ace of Hearts, but it cannot be accessed because it is blocked by two other cards on top, for example a Jack of Spades and then a 7 of diamonds. So you click to draw another 3 cards. If you are able to put all those 3 cards down into the game, the next card revealed in the drawing hand should be the bottom card, in this case the Ace. Once the Ace is placed then the next card to be revealed would be the 7 of diamonds.

In the current design of Windows 7 Home Premium the game instead reveals the top card again (the Jack of Spades, for example). If you play solitaire physically with cards and draw 3 and place them downwards on the discarded pile and then pick one up, it will be the bottom card card that is revealed.

Can this feedback please be passed on to the developers? I am sure this problem did not occur in earlier versions of Windows Solitaire.

Thanks! Emma

Answer 1

Methinks you have been cheating with a real deck. If you lay down three cards and cannot play the top one, and then you play all of the next three, the same card of the first three should be the next card. You can't shuffle them up to your liking.

Answer 2

same problem (in Vista), playable card covered by others when dealing three. No more moves possible on board or in dealer deck, yet the "hint" line in the option dropdown highlights the dealer stack as having playable cards. As long as this is available, the game continues but no way out except to pick "new game, counts as loss". I know you must play the top of the three. Any suggestions?