Read the FreeCell FAQ on my site at
<
http://home.earthlink.net/~fomalhaut/fcfaq.html>.
There's lots of information there on unsolvable deals.
All of the 32,000 regular Microsoft deals are solvable,
except for 11982, which is impossible. MS FreeCell
now includes two joke deals, numbered -1 and -2, which
are also impossible. A few constructed impossible deals
can be found on the Internet, including this one
<
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hansb/d.freecell/freecellhtml.html>
which includes a mathematical proof of impossibility.
Most other deals have been proved impossible by exhaustive
computer analysis.
Microsoft does not take FreeCell seriously (they consider
it a free throwaway product), which is probably why no one
has bothered to update the erroneous help file.
Michael Keller
FreeCell FAQ
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