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To: Zuben Elgenubi

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

From freecell.org:

Nearly every FreeCell game can be won. Only a very few FreeCell games are unwinnable. Using the basic deal numbering system that virtually all FreeCell games use, game #11982 is the first unwinnable game of FreeCell. After that only the games #146692, #186216, #455889, #495505, #512118, #517776, and #781948 are unsolvable out of the first million games. Therefore, unsolvable games of FreeCell are literally eight out of a million.


19 posted on 12/20/2017 12:36:15 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: 867V309

Thank you.


24 posted on 12/20/2017 12:50:48 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: 867V309

Thanks for that, 1982 was a true legend. I knew a guy who wrote a simulator and proved empirically it could not be won.

I am sure it can be described mathematically why but I think you would have to be Nash or someone to actually do it.


31 posted on 12/20/2017 12:56:22 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Conservatives should do daily affirmations: reading/repeating the 9th and 10th Amendments)
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To: 867V309

I’ve seen multiple references to this game number and that game number. Game number??? I assumed/thought the cards were randomly dealt after the computer shuffled them!!!! NO????

There is a FIXED set of arranged cards for the for the for the?????? There is a set of games all computers know about and access. Or know about and are stored in each game. 2 terabytes of data?????? I’m lost #$$%^&*%^&$%*&^....


48 posted on 12/20/2017 7:05:49 PM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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