Sudoku arguably also fits that category.
We played it all the time - the card game - growing up in the 80s.
Seeing that everyone else played it in the 70s reinforces my claim that my family was always a decade behind.
I played it growing up in the 80’s as well. ![]()
I’ve always wanted a version of this for the computer. I’ve searched and searched.
Only one I see currently online is:
http://www.danduda.com/Portals/0/Milestone/Milestone.html
There is a “sorta” version for Android phones called “miles”. Never liked how that one played - too hard to manipulate the cards.
Variant for when you play face-to-face: Any two remedies are wild. You still only draw one card to begin your turn as a penalty for using this variant. It speeds up the game.
You can get a text version on many Linux distributions.
Played this as a kid. It seemed to eventually have been replaced with the simpler* Uno*.