On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Danny A Jones wrote:
> Thanks for the great suggestions!!! I hadn't thought of using the number
> of freecells required! That sounds perfect.
>
Note that Freecell Solver can be used to determine if a board is solvable
with a given number of Freecells like this:
fc-solve -l fools-gold --freecells-num [MYNUM]
You can also try this with the range solver.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> 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
>
>
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