Microsoft Solitaire

20 Achievements

200

350-500h

Windows 8

Become a Superstar

Completed an entire collection of challenges in the Star Club

How to unlock the Become a Superstar achievement in Microsoft Solitaire - Definitive Guide

AP E JC

TrueAchievements

04 Aug 2015 18:00

UDPATE 3: As stated by Drazer76, when you fail the board in Tri-Peaks and use your new deal (third one), it randomly generates the new deal. So there is no way to predict the next game. The recommendation is keep trying until you get a deal you can finish the game.

UPDATE 2: Thanks to Naexty that found a video for the new TriPeaks Final Event.

UPDATE: It was draw to attention by HenkusFilijokus that the achievement may unlock now if you previously met the requirements, i will hold for more confirmations.

Currently, you won't unlock this achievement if you met the requirements in the win8 version of the game.

Quickest way to unlock this is to play the 25th Anniversary Tournament. They are all expert challenges but there are videos on YouTube solving all of them

Although, I don't own the videos, neither could solve them so efficiently, I will provide links for Zeming Jin awesome solutions. I highly recommend following his YouTube channel for daily challenges solutions

Qualifier Pack

Semifinals Pack

Finals Pack

04 Aug 2015 18:00

58 Comments

This achievement randomly unlocked for me today (whilst playing the game, but not completing any challenges), so I'm guessing it will now unlock based on prior completion in the W8 version.

By HenkusFilijokus on 11 Aug 2015 19:49

Thanks for the info. I just updated it.

By AP E JC on 06 Aug 2015 10:06

thanks for the info, i will update it.

By AP E JC on 11 Aug 2015 20:52

Seems to me the TriPeaks one, they've changed the thrid 'set', it's different from those Win8 video versions. Can't get 90,000 with the video because the third set if different.
:(

By Gizmo2k on 12 Aug 2015 10:14

To clarify: On the FINALS videos (sorry)

By Gizmo2k on 12 Aug 2015 10:14

Thanks for pointing that up. I didnt use all videos, so I didn't notice it. I will try to replace the video. In the meantime, try to change different approaches in the third set till you get it.

By AP E JC on 12 Aug 2015 10:40

Hehe, I am, I'm just a bit rubbish at it ;)

By Gizmo2k on 12 Aug 2015 12:30

No problem, so do I. I had to undo a lot on these challenges to finish them.

By AP E JC on 12 Aug 2015 12:35

If i open the menu it does not pause but i will try your method tomorrow!

By AmazingSpider97 on 25 Aug 2015 00:32

Sure, that's how I did in the win8 version, but by the time i tried it in the win10 version i couldn't unlock using them.

By AP E JC on 17 Mar 2016 17:53

AP E JC's 0.5x speed advice is definitely the way to go

By Rossticus on 14 Jun 2016 14:57

Two completed collections and no achievement. (Easy and 25th Anniversary) :'(

By Claude Spunkton on 10 Aug 2016 08:31

@Claude, what shows in the achievement tracking window? Incomplete? Try playing one of the challenges again.

By AP E JC on 10 Aug 2016 10:04

@Claude, more likely 'done! unlocking' like the majority of the achievements I'm getting are.

Great solution, cheers!

By MattQuin89 on 12 Aug 2016 07:02

yes, I had one last night. It unlocked once i met the requirements again. So I'd try doing it again, once this Done! Unlocking thing stops.

By AP E JC on 12 Aug 2016 10:15

Unfortunately, I'm not good enough on these challenges to make a video. I remember I had a similar problem in another challenge, where the end board was different from the video. I just kept doing until I managed to complete it. That's what I can recommend for now, but I will keep looking for a video.

By AP E JC on 23 Jan 2017 19:13

Has anyone got a video link to the updates tripeaks expert challenge in the finals, the last deck has changed and the above video is no longer useful

By FeedtotheLions on 16 Jan 2017 19:36

Has anyone got a video link to the updates tripeaks expert challenge in the finals, the last deck has changed and the above video is no longer useful

By FeedtotheLions on 16 Jan 2017 21:43

@FeedtotheLions, is this the new challenge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAxBfsVf2qg

By AP E JC on 19 Jan 2017 12:51

I tried both of those videos and it is a new board once you get to the last one in the video :(

By JohnyLou on 23 Jan 2017 01:21

Anyone find the updated windows 10 video.

By FEZKILLEDU on 16 Feb 2017 00:51

Just to let you guys know.
In the Tri-Peaks, when you fail the board and use your new deal (third one), it randomly generates the new deal.

This is why everyone's videos are different, because they aren't passing that third run, making the fourth random.

Solution (as best you'll get!):
Follow the videos exactly to get to 71k.
Then on the fourth board, try your best, remember you can undo all the way back to the start of the board to 71k again.

Eventually you'll get a board you can do, so if you definitely can't get to 90k, just start the video over, get to 71k, then try your new board deal.
Took me 4, but I got a really good chain on that one of several cards that pushed the score right up.

Hope this helps!
You may wish to add this to the solution perhaps? Not sure if people will see it..

By Drazer76 on 15 Oct 2017 01:15

Thanks @Drazer76, I updated the guide.

By AP E JC on 17 Oct 2017 09:09

Can someone explain why this is flagged as partly discontinued/unobtainable? Can't seem to spot the problem and wondered if it's still worth me chasing this game or not

By Lord Von Chimp on 04 Jan 2018 11:26

I don't know either. If someone has this info, I can update the guide

By AP E JC on 04 Jan 2018 18:37

It's noted as that because if you completed it on the Windows 8 and then came to this to complete it, you will not get credit for completing a new pack on win 10. As there is no star mode on the IOS version, you could feasibly complete it on win 10, but again, if you already finished it on the 8 it will not unlock.

By THE DEADLY DOG on 05 Jan 2018 01:46

I'm on Android, guess the same applies as IOS? As I completed the original on a Win8 Laptop ages ago, so I can't complete a pack on the Laptop and port it across? I'm still not following, sorry

By Lord Von Chimp on 05 Jan 2018 12:01

When the game launched, you didn't get credit for an already completed collection, but you could simply complete a new one and the achievement would unlock.

Maybe a recent update broke it and now, even completing a new one, you won't be awarded the achievement.

By AP E JC on 06 Jan 2018 12:47

Thanks for the confirmation @sonnyliston1

By AP E JC on 18 Feb 2020 23:27

I have finish 25th anniversary but I have not success ..

By NyuNyu60 on 17 Jan 2020 16:57

Maybe it is glitched now. It's been a long time. Anybody more can confirm it?

By AP E JC on 17 Jan 2020 21:40

Still Working, unlocked as soon as it loaded back to the menu, the videos made things much easier!

By sonnyliston1 on 18 Feb 2020 23:24

I did the easy packet in the mixed section. The achievement did not unlock. Does this pack not trigger the achievement?

By Fatmans Fatness on 22 Jan 2021 02:58

Same for me, this pack easy don't work :(

By steph ze killer on 19 Feb 2021 08:59

Wonderful

By Maceteur on 18 Sep 2023 12:07

worked perfect only try peaks was somewat hard in the last steps

By Sambaweb on 09 May 2024 20:48

after failing in tri peaks, i got 2 of the same cards dealt after eachother :)
thanks for the guide

By MuminHunter on 14 Aug 2024 14:12

The last link in the Finals Pack leads to the semifinals Pyramid, not the finals Pyramid.

By Noodles Jr on 06 Aug 2015 02:23

How do I pause the game? because the first challenge of finishing under 10 minutes is hard if I can not pause my game!

By AmazingSpider97 on 24 Aug 2015 21:43

I got to try it, but i think if you pretend to leave, it pauses the game. What I did was put the video in youtuve to play in .5 speed. This way you have plenty of time to copy the movements and still some time to spare.

By AP E JC on 24 Aug 2015 22:04

The achievement unlocked for me when I unlocked the third collection and only having completed 2 packs in the first collection.

By Groudon199 on 30 Aug 2015 01:37

Did you have it on win8?

By AP E JC on 30 Aug 2015 01:40

Nope. Went from 7 to 10, and I've been playing this version all month.

By Groudon199 on 30 Aug 2015 01:50

yes, quite strange then.

By AP E JC on 30 Aug 2015 12:56

My 4th deal in the finals TriPeak was also different. I also started it with 70,100 points instead of the 71,000 in the video.

I noticed that if you click undo in the middle of a streak (when you don't draw a new card), your multiplier starts over. I made sure to undo until the start of the streak if I ever made a mistake to stay consistent with the video's score. Maybe towards the end of the 3rd deal, I made a mistake and didn't correct it which could have caused the difference in score. It's possible that the deals are generated based on your score causing my next deal to be different.

By RikstaG on 17 Jan 2016 03:44

I think I'm just going to stick with the easy collection. I know there's more but easier to do them by myself than follow a video.

By duke63031 on 17 Mar 2016 17:23

The last board in the TriPeaks was always different for me, today I found this one that worked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aMon_WMrYE
But no achievement. Two entire collections completed and no f*cking achievement.

By Aero#7415 on 25 Mar 2017 22:34

Naexty, sorry to hear that the achievement glitched on you and thanks for the found video.

By AP E JC on 27 Mar 2017 11:07

All the videos above work as shown, however, when doing the Finals/TriPeaks, I got another last deck than was shown. Not a big issue as these are not overly complicated to solve, just try a few times for the right order to solve the deck and get to the 90k required. Achievement unlocked for me when I got back to the Star Collection page.

By xCROSSWINDSx on 13 Apr 2020 20:24

This should be obtainable on mobile versions now, at least Android anyway. I just downloaded an update that unlocked themes and Star Club. Someone with the iOS version will have to verify for that one.

By SpudimusPrime89 on 25 Aug 2018 01:48

I can confirm that I received an update to this app on Android yesterday and was able to unlock this achievement today with the help of this guide. Still not available on iOS as far as I can tell, though my iPod Touch runs an outdated version of iOS so maybe there are updates available for newer versions.

By Cartoonite on 25 Aug 2018 23:09

STAR CLUB IS AVAILABLE ON iOS!

By Trombonafide on 21 Sep 2018 00:03

I just got the achievement. I follow the video until it was different on my side. I think I got lucky because I completed that deal and then the next one was LITERALLY the same!

My advice is to just use the undo whenever you have multiple cards to choose from therefore you can see which cards are going to appear and make the best choice. Good luck!

By C Jitters on 16 Jan 2019 12:50

Yeah, I've been trying the board over and over and still can't figure it out. I am also looking for a video and if I find one I will post it here. Thank you!

By JohnyLou on 23 Jan 2017 22:47

Nope. I will let you know if I find one though. I've been looking every once in a while.

By JohnyLou on 18 Feb 2017 18:00

Can confirm that if you completed it on Win 8 and then did a different grouping to completion on windows 10, it will not unlock.

By THE DEADLY DOG on 13 Jun 2017 03:02

This rubbish is never coming to the Phone version, I feel gypped.

By WithTheDawn on 28 Jun 2017 12:30

This unlocked for me when I unlocked the wild west pack, even though I hadn't completed any of the packs fully.

By Axtrica on 26 Aug 2017 21:59

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HitchyNZ

TrueAchievements

29 Nov 2015 20:53

Big Update: Now there is a super easy collection, about 80 odd in all but doesn't take long to complete. The easy challenge set as noted in comments

29 Nov 2015 20:53

27 Comments

i just finished all 80 of these, and the achievement did not unlock.

By Stu The Monkey on 23 Jun 2016 19:18

Same here. Completed all 80 challenges and no achievement.

By Claude Spunkton on 09 Aug 2016 08:48

This does still work (unlocked today). And as kwynn says, the majority of these take less than a minute so you are probably looking at a couple of hours work for your achievement.

By JernauGurgeh SF on 05 Sep 2016 09:51

Completed all 80 and no achievement

By Aero#7415 on 12 Dec 2016 00:59

When does the star club unlock? It just says "coming soon" on my phone.

By Das Kuhnen on 21 Dec 2016 18:04

@Das Kuhnen Currently its on Windows 10 version only.

By Wadski on 13 Jan 2017 13:05

Completed all 80 and no achievement unlock. Might try playing one of the challenges again and seeing if it unlocks.

By JQ1017 on 22 Mar 2017 08:04

The achievement unlocked for me as soon as I completed the last challenge. I guess I was lucky looking at the comments above. Good luck everyone!

By romisthebest on 23 Mar 2017 16:45

Does this still work? I don't see the easy collection. Thanks

By Onza on 10 Apr 2017 21:58

Found it. Thanks!

By Onza on 10 Apr 2017 22:01

@ Onza

By HitchyNZ on 10 Apr 2017 22:12

Thanks for the heads up on that. The collection is actually called Easy and it has 10 sets of 8 easy games. It's under the mixed collections section. Some of the games were so easy they didn't even take a minute to play.

By kwynn on 30 Dec 2015 21:06

Works

By Dr Digg3r on 11 Apr 2017 07:43

Is this ever coming to IOS version?

By toddycst on 20 May 2017 18:28

Came here to report this solution. It does indeed work and it is... wait for it... EASY!!!

By tibor b on 05 Oct 2019 17:14

Same here. Did not unlock it after all 80. I have now 91 stars so far, but on my Xbox one there are only 22 at my achievement site....?

By Stinkman68 on 06 Sep 2017 16:12

I have just completed the easy collection and won the achievement from it, however the achievement didn't unlock immediately.

Once I finished my last game I went back to the challenge page and waited for the last completion stamp animation to finish. I then went back again into the "pack" section (listing solitaire I, Tripeaks II etc.) waited for the stamp, then went back again to the challenge pack screen for the stamp aswell. After having nothing pop, I went and viewed the achievement in the MSC "Awards and Achievements" section and it showed as not being completed. Then I closed down the game, re-opened and after syncing the achievement popped.

I can't say this system would work for everyone as the achievement could have just taken its time to process for me, but I did seem very convenient the moment syncing finished it popped

By Monchow on 30 Nov 2017 15:40

I just did the full set of 80 and popped the achievement. This is much easier than the shorter list of timed games.

By I ASK NO ONE on 20 Oct 2022 23:57

ty kwynn

By HitchyNZ on 30 Dec 2015 21:12

this is for me thanks.

By duke63031 on 17 Mar 2016 17:24

this is great, flying through these right now

By FaintKitten3455 on 08 Jun 2016 13:53

more like nightmare collection yikes would love a guide just for the solitaire collection

By DARKxREAPER on 26 Feb 2018 08:25

It popped straight away using the Easy method. It definitely works!

By enracer on 21 Mar 2018 22:06

cool enracer

By HitchyNZ on 21 Mar 2018 23:01

Excellent tibor

By HitchyNZ on 06 Oct 2019 09:30

OOF. I never thought about scrolling down and started doing the "normal" challenges. Thanks for this -_-

By beMoD on 31 Jan 2021 11:52

Dont work !

By steph ze killer on 19 Feb 2021 09:00

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Hedgehogking117

TrueAchievements

09 Jul 2018 02:48

Use the easy pack, which is found below the main 5 packs and if you still have any trouble there's a crappy-quality step by step walkthrough on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ7k7f-qO9lny2SxJvt7U...
Have fun getting this achievement.

09 Jul 2018 02:48

NamcoPlayer#9871

TrueAchievements

30 Dec 2021 17:54

The fastest way to unlock the achievement is to do the 25th Anniversary Tournament collection. It only has 10 games to complete unlike all of the other collections which takes more time to complete. If you are having trouble trying to win the games in the Qualifiers, Semifinals, and Finals packs in the 25th Anniversary Tournament collection, Marcela Martinez on YouTube has a playlist showing video solutions on winning the games: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLztVoyNx3rWSzb-DFmt0s...

You'll also unlock this achievement along the way if not already:

The Become a Star achievement in Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP) worth 70 pointsComplete an entire pack of challenges in the Star Club

30 Dec 2021 17:54

steph ze killer

TrueAchievements

21 Feb 2021 09:23

Update for people who have some problem with the easy pack (after complete all 80 games, no pop

), i have use the 25th anniversary

Just 10 game and the solution here :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ7k7f-qO9lkb69pgFPvY...

Work for me, and i hope i can help you

:D have fun

21 Feb 2021 09:23

RAYNGER1981

TrueAchievements

08 Aug 2018 20:18

Just a hint incase anyone else didn't know this. The achievement is still obtainable on windows 10 devices and if you have a windows phone running 8.1 you can update it to windows 10 for free. Just thought I'd share.

08 Aug 2018 20:18