[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

A break from taxes. :<))

[proxy_user]

I thought it was theoretically possible to win ALL freecell games.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Words With Friends is my drug of choice right now.

[Eccl 10:2]

Spider is much more challenging and interesting. Four suits, of course. I win about 10% of the time.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

20 years ago when there was a Yahoo chat, ( and it was a real zoo, ) I used to go into a room and ask for the cheat for MS Solitaire. That always made for wonderful conversation! People would call me all kinds of stupid and I would be laughing my fool head off! ROFL

[Tenacious 1]

What did you do to me? What was that that I just read? My eye is twitching now. Is this a clump of hair?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Statistically one can win 9 out of 10 games.

100% can be won. Use Control/Z to undo a move or many moves, right back to the start of an individual game.

[LonePalm]

I am closing in on 4000 consecutive wins over three devices.

That said, I have been working on one on my tablet for over three months.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[robroys woman]

Freecell is my favorite because every game is winnable. So far I’ve won every one - eventually.

[proxy_user]

My statistics: 3621 won, 425 lost. That’s 89%.

[TomGuy]

I moved and finagled XP Freecell and some other XP games to play on Win7.

I think every game on XP Freecell is winnable. It just takes time and patience.

XP Spider Solitaire not so much. I win about 3/4 of the middle level games. Occasionally, I get one that seems impossible. Occasionally, I will play one over and over for a week to find get to a win.

[InterceptPoint]

My favorite as well. I’ve never lost a solvable game and there is at least one.

OTOH I spent 75 minutes solving Freecell 454 and the Freecell app didn’t record the win. I tried it again for 30 minutes or so and had to go to YouTube to finally solve it.

Great game. But don’t start with 454.

[robroys woman]

I used to freak people out with minesweeper.

There was a hack that allowed you to know what was under every single square. When it was turned on, as you hovered over a square, if there was a mine there, a single pixel at the corner of your computer screen would turn white.

I went into an egghead computer store once and drove the staff crazy. I did it in “difficult” mode. I’d clear out the entire board and win without flagging any squares. I finally told them what I did.

[Flycatcher]

I play FreeCell too.

But just a little...

Just finished Game 41,959.

I've won 36,678 of them for an 87% win percentage.

Not bad, eh?

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’ve played 21,000 hands of Solitaire on this computer, but it won’t let you win more than 85%. I haven’t played Freecell in some time, but I’m gonna go try a hand.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

From the BOWEP...I like ‘Chip’s Challenge’ the best.

[freedumb2003]

I think it is more than 9/10.

I have gone about 10,000 games across 10 years without losing — but I DO use “undo” a good bit so maybe that a definition of “losing.”

Out of the many thousands of games possible I think there are like 5 or 10 proven unwinnable.

I am too lazy to actually Google it but you can. :)

[exDemMom]

Once upon a time, I set out to determine if there were unwinnable games of Freecell, since I had read that in theory, all games are winnable.

Then I saw a game somewhere that was obviously unwinnable. IIRC, it consisted of a very ordered tableau, all of the cards laid out in order or something similar.

Once I saw that game that was so obviously unwinnable, then I stopped trying to play every single game of Freecell. Clearly, the hypothesis that all games are winnable was false.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Beau is an expert at Free Cell. He won’t quit until he’s won - even if it means backing all the way OUT and starting over again.

I don’t think he’s lost a single game. I’ll ask and get back to you on that...

[barmag25]

I bounce around on phone games. Never more than a month or so on one game. I’m on grow empire Rome now. Last month was PGA tour golf. Next month who knows.

When I’m on my laptop though it’s free cell and classic solitaire. Those never change. Timeless classics, for the computer age anyways.

[Will88]

Wow, people actually play thousands of Freecell games? I’ve played 418 games in about four years, have won 70% and don’t use undo. You could undo most any of the games until you won, but is that really the point?

Just play a few games every few weeks.