> I (maybe inaccurately) assumed that very few people have actually
> tried to manually solve the deals above 32,000.
That's probably still mostly true. Windows XP has not been
around long enough for any of the 32000+ deals to have been
played too much. I've played some; the hardest by far I've
found so far is 80388.
> That's why I presumed solution length might be the best
> available criteria for judging the remaining deals as
> difficult. I did not mean to imply that it was the best
> overall criteria!
The best criterion I know of at the moment is number
of freecells required for solution. Over 99% of deals can
be solved with three freecells or fewer. Deals which require
all four freecells are much more likely to be difficult for
humans to solve. It's possible to produce such a list with
FreeCell Pro <
http://home.earthlink.net/~fomalhaut/fcpro.html>
using the range solver and the selective file format.
Just about every deal I've ever seen which I would call
extremely hard is a four-freecell deal.
Michael Keller
FreeCell FAQ
Received on Sun Sep 07 2003 - 14:23:12 IDT