Fairway Solitaire

This game is really good, although I bought it a while ago not knowing how much replay value the game holds. This game has TONS of courses(try scrolling down in the demo). Plus, the 40% deal above is a steal if you don't have a Big Fish Game club account. Fairway Solitaire you can play longer than any other game from Big Fish Games and I was delightfully surprised.

Thanks for the TypeKey update Jay. :)

I found Fairway Solitaire very fun. I played a demo of another card game long ago that was very similar, but it wasn't a golf theme.

Now I remember...Mystery Solitaire: Secret Island. Neat game, but Fairway is more fun.

Woo, glad you liked it! The Mac version is done, I'm sending it to BFG on Monday. Don't know when it will go live.

Yeah as Kirkpad said, there are 70 courses each taking roughly 20 mins to complete so that's over 23 hours gameplay minimum, except that you'll have to play some of them more than once to beat them.

Hey I played Mystery Island Solitaire just a few weeks before I started on this game and I really liked it. Simple and addictive although not really solitaire - more mahjong with the whole matching cards thing.

As a Big Fish Club member, I tried this game and bought it almost straight away (I had a credit burning a hole in my pocket).

It's quite enjoyable and has a nice replay value to it. I intend on getting back into the game right after I do some Christmas shopping.

Jake, now that I bought Fairway Solitaire, I'm really glad I did.
(I bought 2 games...one was that Madame Mystery hidden items game and the very next was Fairway.) I'm having fun with both, but Fairway is more relaxing, intimidating and adult for me.

Hey, who did the music for the in-game Welcome and Statistics screens? They're like a combo of Myst game themes and Voyager. Very professional and beautifully done. Good move. :)

I have been playing Fairway Solitaire on Big Fish for quite some time, and immediately purchased it when it became available for download. I will predict, with absolutely NO hesitation, that Fairway Solitaire will become the all-time most popular solitaire game on the web, as well as the all-time best-seling one. I see no downside to this game at all. However, since there are no real instructions, so to speak, I have one question: How on earth do I get my money back from the gopher? I see him pop up on a hole occasionally, but he quickly disappears.

Thanks for the great game, Jake! I have played 100 courses in a total time of 24 hours, and I STILL haven't finished the game. Fore!.....

I previously praised this game, saying it would become the biggest Solitaire game ever on the internet. I have now changed my mind. You took what was almost the perfect game and turned it into crap on the 68th course (out of 70). It took me a little over 24 hours to complete the first 67 courses, with many of them challenging enough to need 4 or 5 plays to beat. To reach course 68, I had played about 110 rounds of golf. I have now played course 68 over 100 times without beating it. Why on earth you would do this to such a great game is beyond my comprehension! I looked at Fairway Solitaire as being a game that I would always play on a continual basis, repeatedly playing through all the courses. But when you make it impossible to get to the last 2 courses, then what is my motive to play? Unless a fix is provided for this game, I will not only quit playing it, I will NEVER buy another Big Fish game that is associated with anyone who created this one. I will also use caution when buying ANY game anywhere on the internet, and will avoid any and all by Fairway Slitaire's creators, programmers and designers.

Wow, you sound very bitter, Dan.

Sometimes when I get frustrated with a game that appears to be not letting me pass, it is often due to my taking an incorrect approach to it. Could that be the case here?

Dan Towne: Some of the end courses are very hard but there are certain tactics you can use to beat them. For a start, go on a tour of an easy course to collect a full bag of irons before you attempt it. Make sure you have bought all the clothing items too. If you would like to make it a little easier, email me and I'll help you out. The Mac version is coming out soon and some of the end courses are a bit easier. Also, I'll see if BFG will release an updated version with the easier courses on.

Oh, the music is by Somatone, so are the sounds.

There is a wildshot called Gopher Flush which is rare, but gives you some money back (not everything you've lost). The gopher that pops up in-game is just a random ambient animation, you can't hit it with a hammer or anything (we nearly put in a whack-a-gopher minigame but ran out of time.

I'm on Dan's side! I have spent a lot of time enjoying Fairway Solitaire and have loved every moment, coming home from work each night to try and keep ahead of my son in the scores and courses - then I got to Mystery Madness. I am still there after heaven alone knows how many games. No way to get through it and to make things worse on the 4th hole the extreme right hand column freezes and won't let me use it no matter what. So there I am, still working on it, totally frustrated, no way out, stuck like some lost spirit doomed to lurk around the third to last course. Trust me, no matter how many irons you have in your bag you ain't gettin' past this one!

Try this to beat Mystery Madness:

http://greyaliengames.com/blog/fairway-solitaire-cheats/

If you can run the game in Windowed mode (via options) and take a screenshot of the 4th hole problem and email it to me, that would be REALLY helpful. thx.

ok so how do you use the clubs? I have tried different ways but even when I use one just before I hit the end drive button, but it doesn't seem to make any difference in the multiplier score.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.

So if you are having a good run and it comes to an end, you can click an iron in your bag and it flies to the foundation. Then you can click another card on the playfield to keep your run going. For example, your run ends but you have a 7 iron and you can see a possible run of 8,9,10 etc on the playfield. Clicking the 7 iron in the bag will not increase your drive length, but it will enable you to click 8,9,10 and increase your drive. When you finally click End Drive you'll get a bigger multiplier due to the longer drive you made.

On harder courses you can go back to easier ones and build up a full bag of irons to use on a harder course to extend your runs and get below par scores or perfects etc.

how do you get past shepherd's ridge

This is Dan again. Well, after playing about 150 times on the Mystery Madness course, I finally cleared it. It was only by extreme luck that this occurred, such as clearing a hole via the Wild Shot. The last two courses were quite easy. I won every trophy except the eagle trophy. The funny thing is, my wife won that trophy on her second course. I went in under a new player name, and also won the eagle trophy on my first course, along with 4 other trophies. How I won 5 trophies on one course I will never know! However, I am proud to say that even though you created such a ridiculously tough course in Mystery Madness, I did finally beat it without any outside help or advice. I may have been a little rough on you in my previous post, but it just makes no sense to have a game that runs at a certain level of toughness suddenly become next to impossible. I see in your above posting that you have made the last courses easier for the Mac version. I would assume that this is because you (as well as others) agree that it was much too tough at the end. I will continue playing Fairway Solitaire, because if I can forget about the 68th course, it is still the best solitaire game ever made for the PC. If I include the 68th course, then I would call it the most irritating solitaire game ever. But I guess one out of 70 isn't bad. It means you got 69 of them right. I personally think that Mystery Madness should have been the LAST course in the game. I now look forward to any new sets of courses that you may come up with for Fairway Solitaire. And by the way, I was not bitter in the above posting, I was just being honest. -Dan Towne

Hi Dan, I'm glad you finally beat Mystery Madness and that you still like the game :-) I admit that course is too hard (along with a couple of others) which is why we made them easier in the Mac (and foreign language versions). Some people on another site were saying we shouldn't make them easier as they liked the challenge haha. 5 trophies on one course is very good going! You probably got very good at the game from playing it through and so when you started again you applied all your tactics to the first course and won them all (that and a bit of luck too of course!). So did you actually finish the game yet? I'm not sure we'll be making more courses or a sequal, but if enough people email Big Fish Games about it...

April: Check out the link to the hints on my blog, it's posted higher up.

Awww... My trial time ran out! I really enjoyed the demo of this game, thought it was a fantastic twist on an old classic game. I'd buy and download it in a second... except I'm completely broke!

Mac version is out! Go to Big Fish Games to download a free demo.

I have purchased the mac version. Love the game, but am stuck at mountain springs. I have had a score of +10 4 times but it will still not let me pass this level. Is this a glitch in the program? Help!

I'm running the Mac version and have been stuck on "Joe's Gas & Go" WAY TOO LONG!

bah! can't I just pass this & come back to it later? maybe? I've got all the clothes & have used up several bags of clubs. bah! again