Golf (card game) from Windows Entertainment Pack 1

This was released 1990 and originally made for Windows 3.x.

It is another Solitaire style game that came with the first Windows Entertainment Pack. My family never really played it much and I remember why. The game is way too difficult. I played over 50 games trying to win once just so I could upload a winning game, but it was going to take forever and wasn't worth it.

The rules are very straightforward. The following is from Help - How to Play - Overview:

Golf is a challenging solitaire card game. The playing area is divided into three main regions: the seven stacks of cards located at the top of the playing area, the deck located in the bottom-left corner of the playing area, and the discard pile located to the right of the deck. The object of the game is to play all the cards from the top stacks down to the discard pile.

When the game begins, the top card in the deck is faceup on the discard pile. You can play any card from the top of a stack down to the discard pile if its rank is either one higher or one lower than the rank of the top card on the discard pile. For example, you can play a 10 onto a 9, or a 4 onto a 5. There are two exceptions to this rule: only a 2 can be played onto an Ace, and no card can be played onto a King.

The top card of the deck may also be played to the discard pile. The number of cards remaining in the deck is indicated by the counter in the lower-left corner of the playing area.

Play ends when all cards in the top seven stacks have been moved to the discard pile or when the deck is exhausted.