Thanks for the great suggestions!!! I hadn't thought of using the number
of freecells required! That sounds perfect.
I use FreeCell Pro, but I'm not familiar with the "selective file
format". I will check it out as you suggested.
I'm such a poor player that every deal is hard for me. However, I'll
give 80388 a try ... just for laughs!
Again, thanks!!!
wgreview wrote:
> > 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
> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Efomalhaut/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 - 20:46:35 IDT