"Computer solitaire is the biggest blow to productivity that the world economy has ever seen (except for that pesky Black Death in the 14th century)..." --
MacAddict
Better than Solitaire.
Much better than Solitaire. I have been playing a game called Spider Solitaire. Hardest game I've ever played. Haven't won yet. Tried to put the game on this screen, but I can't figure out how.
"
FreeCell is mission-critical." --
DanIngalls (on the Squeak mailing list, after a "fix" broke
FreeCell)
Some games of
FreeCell have no solution [
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hansb/d.freecell/freecellhtml.html]. However, the
FreeCell program distributed with
MicrosoftWindows has a fixed (and relatively small) number of games, all of which have solutions except #11982.
FreeCell Solver (
http://fc-solve.berlios.de/) is a
CeeLanguage program created by Shlomi Fish. A lecture about it, "Freecell Solver - Evolution of a C Program," can be found at
http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Freecell-Solver/.
I used to prefer
FreeCell, but now I prefer Solitaire with "Draw Three" and Vegas scoring. I find it quite deep and subtle.
I use standard scoring, but always aim for the max.
MineSweeper, my child,
MineSweeper.
FreeCell and many other solitaires are available for
MacOsx in the
Solitaire Till Dawn X app from
http://www.semicolon.com/ The clickability is great, and the cards feature beautiful portraits by Van Gogh, da Vinci, etc. Hmm... it's almost dawn here now...
I think that
FreeCell is an excellent learning tool that gives some general guidelines as to how solve nebulous problems. In fact, I could argue that eveything that I've needed to know about life I learned from
FreeCell... (see
ImportantFreeCellLessons).
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