On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 WKRfresno_at_aol.com wrote:
> ... a user asked recently about MS' not allowing a homecell card to be
> brought back into play. That's a limit that I wouldn't want to
> change. But I would be very interested to learn whether lifting that
> restriction would make solvable 11982 and others.
I checked up to 20,000,000. Here are the ones that are unsolvable with 4
freecells, but solvable in the above case (11982 is still not). All of
these are solvable with 5 freecells, of course; the home -> tableau move
is like a very constrained version of having 5 freecells.
4266168
6332629
7334559
8381178
10784666
11953120
13380013
14194581
15995200
18739641
19231830
All of the first 20,000,000 are solvable with 5 freecells, in fact, except
one: 14720822 requires 6 freecells. Allowing homecell -> tableau moves
doesn't help for this one.
Note that I only checked for the case of bringing a homecell card back
onto a non-empty pile.
Michael, could you add this to the FAQ? Probably section 5 would be good.
By the way, I have verified that AE-Imp6 does require 7 freecells, even
with the above cheat.
Dr. Tom Holroyd
"I am, as I said, inspired by the biological phenomena in which
chemical forces are used in repetitious fashion to produce all
kinds of weird effects (one of which is the author)."
-- Richard Feynman, _There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom_
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 19:53:26 IST