Thanks for this alternate suggestion!!! I'll give it a try as well.
Regards,
Danny A. Jones
Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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>
> > > <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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Received on Mon Sep 08 2003 - 05:59:38 IDT