The highest priority is to flip over stack cards.This may be considered cheating, but when the field has you at an immediate disadvantage, the chance of winning is diminished. All face-up cards are one color or there are three kings? New game. As long as you make no moves, starting a new game doesn't count as a loss. Don't play hands that have no/few initial moves.I'm at a 21% win rate with the following strategy (I go for wins, not score): But I've played a lot of video games, and this is one of my proudest video game accomplishments. I don't think what I did is impressive: it probably just took me three years to get a winnable hand, and someone else could probably do what I did on their first try. And finally, at 11:17 PM last night, I beat the game according to my completely arbitrary rules. I'm pretty dumb and don't know anything about math or programming, so I had no way to know whether what I was trying to do was provably impossible. I started to wonder whether it was even possible to win playing by my arbitrary rules: other card games could present impossible problems perhaps I'd found an impossible way to beat Solitaire.īut I kept trying-not obsessively, but in bimonthly spurts. I kept coming back and trying to win, but I always had the same problem: I could build the tableaux almost all the way, but one of the cards I needed to finish building the tableaux was always downturned. I eventually decided it was impossible and gave up. I spent a few weeks trying, but I always got stuck with a few downturned cards. I won almost every game, so I decided to try something different: I wanted to get all the "tableaux" (those four lines of cards) built without putting any cards up on the foundations (the outlines in the upper-right corner where you put the aces and stack cards). I had a lot of downtime, so I started playing the quintessential office game, Solitaire. Three years ago, I was working the graveyard shift.
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