Microsoft Solitaire

*** This solution is intended for the PC version of the game. ***

This achievement can be attained while working towards the "Go for the Silver" and "Go for the Bronze" achievements.

With Microsoft Solitaire Collection closed, change your computer's date to one year prior (So the same month you're currently in but last year. I usually chose the 25th of the month to have enough days available). Next start up Microsoft Solitaire Collection. ** If you want to get the achievements quicker I recommend buying the Premium Edition. ** Now start doing the Daily Challenges starting from the first date of the month. Try to do all five challenges for each day. If you are stuck on a challenge, skip it to save yourself the time. Assuming you've purchased the Premium Edition it will take you about 10-12 days of challenges to get the Gold Badge. Now close Microsoft Solitaire Collection and change the date to the following month. Reopen Microsoft Solitaire Collection and repeat the process until you have received the Gold Badge for eight months.

Once you've done 8 months of Gold Badges you can start working towards Silver Badges. You will only need to do so for 2 months since you've already received 8 Silver Badges while working towards Gold. Silver Badges take you about 5-7 days of challenges, assuming you've purchased the Premium Edition. Once you've done the Silver Badges you can do 2 more months of Bronze Badges only. This should take you 2-3 days of daily challenges.

If for some reason the achievement doesn't pop, close Microsoft Solitaire Collection and change the date back to today's date. Reopen Microsoft Solitaire Collection and the achievement should pop right away.

** Some people have reported glitches on getting the achievement to pop. I have never had this issue on any Microsoft Collection I played, so I cannot confirm whether it is "glitchy." **

** I don't know if this method would work on a mobile device. I cannot confirm whether it does or not. **

** 2019 Update - A user has stated that they cannot use Premiums services on the prior months. I no longer have Premium, so I cannot confirm this. Either way the solution works but it will take longer. **

This solution is also good for the following achievements:






All the solutions above have mostly only explained how to get to the previous months, but not how to get the medals the fastest way possible.

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But what is now the fastest way to level?

I guess...

1. Go to January 2019

2. Now start playing Klondike one day at a time. (Klondike is BY FAR the easiest mode you can play.)

Why Klondike?

^{If you have any questions, suggestions, or critic, the best way to tell me is the comment-section :)}
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This solution in German:

Don't want to wait 8-12 months for these monthly badges?

Changing the month on your PC; go to Time and Date Settings, uncheck automatic time and date, and pick a date around the 28th of each month; complete enough challenges in each month to get the achievements. Note that challenges are not designed far in advance, so the furthest you can set the clock ahead is about a week.

I did buy premium for month, both to grab the medals faster, and the game is well-designed and pretty and content should be paid for etc. /sermon

You can use this method to get You must start on the 1st and shift the day forward one day after completing at least one challenge. Remember to CLOSE the app before shifting the day.

New solution following KillaQueens515 PC method as of 2019

KillaQueens515 gave a good method however since about a year or two ago your premium cannot follow to previous months. But I have found a workaround to help speed this grind up.

1.) Make sure you are premium. It is 1.99 membership that blocks ads and give extra coins.

2.) Change date to any prior month.

3.) Open Daily Challenges under your non premium month you chose (ex. Im doing June 2019). DO NOT START ANY GAME YET OR BACK OUT TO MAIN MENU!

4.) Switch the date back to the current date and voila!!!!!!! You have premium for the previous months. Downside is that every game(day) you finish, it takes you back to the current month dates but you just use this method every time as long as you are a premium member.

ALSO from what I heard if achievement don't unlock, just get a medal in current time to sync up with servers.

This guide applies to all four of the medal achievements.
I think you now need to buy a month of premium to access the later challenges. I tried the date change method and the medals did not add to the counter. (Plus, premium lets you get the medals twice as fast, so much more efficient)

Go to this website for the solutions to the challenges:
https://solutions-microsoft-solitaire-collection.com/daily-c...

And start back at January 2020. As the year progresses, the guy seemingly gets quicker at solving the challenges. (He gets better at Solitaire) so I'd do January and February with Bronze medals, March and April with Silver medals, May through November with gold medals, and December with a Diamond. A gold medal CAN be achieved by doing them all in order, but that is simply not the fastest way.

In this section I'm referring to the length of the video solutions that you'll be following for the challenges. Spider and Pyramid tend to be the longest ones. Some spider ones are upwards of 5 and a half minutes, with the longest one being 11 minutes! Pyramid is generally around 2 and a half minutes, but what makes it as bad as Spider is because there's never rarely an "Easy" (Short) one that is less than a minute and a half, and they can reach up to four minutes. So, logically start at day one of a month and before doing a challenge, check Spider and Pyramid. If they're longer than you wish, say 2 minutes and 50 seconds or above, you can just move onto the next day, and forget about the other challenges, even if they're short. However, if you see a short expert challenge around that you want to snag you can do that since they give a lot of points, or also if there's a longer one that's about 3 minutes and is an expert challenge, just go ahead and do the whole day. You can skip several days in the month and still get gold, so try to avoid the long ones. Like I said earlier, Spider is the crucial one because it can be as low as 40 or 50 seconds, but can range up to 11 minutes. So that's the one you'll most likely be checking to decide whether you want to start a day.

One more tip for this, it is extremely helpful to play the videos on 0.5 speed, so you can just follow what the guy does and never have to pause the video. This makes it progress twice as slow, but ultimately is faster since you're never pausing. Once you get better, and you will, you will be able to almost predict what the guy will do since you know what the logical best move is. Once you get to this point, you can play the videos on 0.75 or even normal speed.

ALL of the medals took me about 60 hours. (12 bronze, 10 silver, 8 gold, 1 diamond)