Hi all,
as I’ve been playing some Baker’s Dozen (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_Dozen_%28solitaire%29 ) lately,
I came to a realisation of one way we could prune the moves there, and in
other variants where empty columns cannot be filled by any card, and which I
believe would still guarantee a correct verdict.
What I thought of is that there is no point in moving the last card in a column
to a parent on a different column, because then the column won't be able to be filled,
and will be left to disuse. Furthermore, after moved to a parent, the card might block
other cards that can be placed on the parent.
A variation of this prune for variants where only kings can fill empty columns is that if
there are enough columns to provide hosting for all the kings that are active, then there
is no point in clearing a column of cards.
Does this sound reasonable to you?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Received on Sat Jun 16 2012 - 22:30:57 IDT