If you apply an (extraneous) restriction that, when placing a card on
top of another card, both cards must be of the same color, then there
are fewer moves to examine and this deal is still solvable.
============================= Initial Layout
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
8D JH 5D 4C KH 2S JD KC 3S JC
9C 5H 7S 8C 8S 3C 8H JS TC **
5C 7H TS AC 5S KD KS QS ** **
4D 4H 2H 7C 6S QH 3H ** ** **
AS 9S 6C QD 7D QC ** ** ** **
TH TD 3D AD 2D ** ** ** ** **
2C 6H 9D AH ** ** ** ** ** **
6D 9H 4S ** ** ** ** ** ** **
============================= Final Layout
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
** ** KD ** KH ** ** KC ** KS
** ** QD ** QH ** ** QC ** QS
** ** JD ** JH ** ** JC ** JS
** ** TD ** TH ** ** TC ** TS
** ** 9D ** 9H ** ** 9C ** 9S
** ** 8D ** 8H ** ** 8C ** 8S
** ** 7D ** 7H ** ** 7C ** 7S
** ** 6D ** 6H ** ** 6C ** 6S
** ** 5D ** 5H ** ** 5C ** 5S
** ** 4D ** 4H ** ** 4C ** 4S
** ** 3D ** 3H ** ** 3C ** 3S
** ** 2D ** 2H ** ** 2C ** 2S
** ** AD ** AH ** ** AC ** AS
============================= 65 moves (color-on-color)
89 82 68 76 76 57 97 69 61 65
16 48 14 15 65 17 16 15 45 15
65 26 04 06 01 51 25 06 20 80
81 28 21 29 79 31 30 53 15 01
08 07 40 42 42 49 54 29 20 52
32 02 12 50 65 60 69 59 31 81
30 37 17 37 07
-Danny A. Jones
--- In fc-solve-discuss_at_yahoogroups.com, Shlomi Fish <shlomif_at_i...> wrote:
> The following PySol Simple Simon game (No. 17366910261613922461):
>
> <<<<<
> 8D 9C 5C 4D AS TH 2C 6D
> JH 5H 7H 4H 9S TD 6H 9H
> 5D 7S TS 2H 6C 3D 9D 4S
> 4C 8C AC 7C QD AD AH
> KH 8S 5S 6S 7D 2D
> 2S 3C KD QH QC
> JD 8H KS 3H
> KC JS QS
> 3S TC
> JC
>
> >>>>>
>
> takes 387,588 iterations to solve using Freecell Solver in its default
> configuration. I was able to optimize it down to 47,986 using the
following
> configuration:
>
> <<<<
> fc-solve -g simple_simon -to agfdcba
> >>>>
>
> This is considering the fact that most Simple Simon games can be
solved with
> less than 500 iterations.
>
> I played this game by hand and it wasn't too hard. However, at the
end there
> is a tricky part where you can get into many false ends.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 22:03:09 IDT