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Play Great Deal (Japan edition · English) Online
Great Deal
Play Great Deal online and arrange falling cards into horizontal, vertical, and diagonal hands. Manage the joker, card queue, and thinking time across nine stages.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Great Deal
Quick start
Practice on the empty first board before worrying about elaborate chains. Keep the center open, assign outer columns to different suits, and use B to cycle a troublesome card behind the other choices. Spend some A-button thinking time whenever a placement could accidentally complete the wrong three-card group. Later antes rise sharply, so build a cushion early with four- or five-card matches and clean-board bonuses; saving the joker for a large final group is much safer than letting it block the well.
Controls
D-pad Left/Right: move the falling card across the well. D-pad Down: accelerate its descent. A: spend the limited thinking-time meter to freeze the fall while the board remains visible. B: cycle the available cards shown in the upcoming-card queue. START: pause with the playfield blanked; press again to resume.
Great Deal — About this game
Great Deal is Hect's 1991 Famicom puzzle game built around a deck of 52 standard cards plus a joker. Cards fall into a five-by-five well and disappear when valid groups of matching ranks, suits, or consecutive values line up horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The player can cycle among four upcoming cards and spend a limited reserve of thinking time to freeze a falling card while keeping the board visible. Across nine stages, the drop speed, starting layout, and required ante become increasingly demanding, so clearing space is only part of the challenge: strong hands, chains, and clean boards are needed to build enough points for later rounds.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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