I'm a Freecell Junkie.

bill2000 said:
1000 in a row??? I call shenanigans. Screen shot of your statistics page or it didn't happen lol.
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I can easily win 1000 normal Freecell games in a row. I had several thousand games with no loses on a new computer till I went off on another tangent. I have it set up where I only play in expert mode and can usually solve games at that level in under 5 minutes. Don't do it as much as I used to. Now I play the daily challenge in the morning and some of the deals where you are ranked against others by you time over a number of games of Freecell, Kondike, Pyramid, Tri peaks and Spider. I mostly rank towards the top. On the dailky challenge I have gone perfect for every month so far this year.

Ya I am a solitary junkie.

PS there is a way to set how difficult the level is if you become a premium user and there is a game that has never been solved by either man or computer.
 
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I deleted all games from my computers - I found that I do not have the will power required to NOT play them if they are available. If only I could solve all of my problems that easily.
 
steelslaver said:
I can easily win 1000 normal Freecell games in a row. I had several thousand games with no loses on a new computer till I went off on another tangent. I have it set up where I only play in expert mode and can usually solve games at that level in under 5 minutes. Don't do it as much as I used to. Now I play the daily challenge in the morning and some of the deals where you are ranked against others by you time over a number of games of Freecell, Kondike, Pyramid, Tri peaks and Spider. I mostly rank towards the top. On the dailky challenge I have gone perfect for every month so far this year.

Ya I am a solitary junkie.

PS there is a way to set how difficult the level is if you become a premium user and there is a game that has never been solved by either man or computer.
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"Expert mode", "premium user" - are we talking about the same game? I'm talking about Free Cell that comes with Windows (apparently not 10). I don't have these options.
 
At some point my parents decided that they were going to win every single game of Freecell. I guess each game has an associated # with it, and there is some grand total of ways the cards can lay out. For many ages they had a notepad by the computer and kept track of the ones they had one. It was easily a couple of thousand games between the two of them. That computer doesn't work any more, but I know they both have it on their laptops. No idea if they still play it with such determination. I'll have to ask them when I see them this coming weekend.
 
In all honesty I think you guys are pathetic to get hooked on something as mindless as free cell.
Now Spider Solitare-well that's different :D
 
I'm not familiar with Freecell, and not sure I want to. I'm a Spider Solitaire junky with over 23,000 games logged, I obviously have enough addiction problems.
 
I've played chess and Scrabble online, and had to quit both cold turkey. They consume my every waking moment.

Now, this forum is my only online addiction!
 
I love Freecell and play several games every day on my phone. I've played many thousands of games, and I'd guess that I win over 90%, but I'm not focused on that. I just find it mentally stimulating. And I don't give up on games I lose. I restart and play them again, and I rarely lose the same game twice.

My unique twist is that I don't play for speed, I try to win with the fewest cards possible going to the foundation piles. I'd guess that more than 50% of my wins are with nothing but the aces going to the foundation piles, but I've won 2 games in the past year without ever putting any cards in the foundation piles.
 
Talldog said:
I love Freecell and play several games every day on my phone. I've played many thousands of games, and I'd guess that I win over 90%, but I'm not focused on that. I just find it mentally stimulating. And I don't give up on games I lose. I restart and play them again, and I rarely lose the same game twice.

My unique twist is that I don't play for speed, I try to win with the fewest cards possible going to the foundation piles. I'd guess that more than 50% of my wins are with nothing but the aces going to the foundation piles, but I've won 2 games in the past year without ever putting any cards in the foundation piles.
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OK, I'm confused. How do you win without putting cards in the foundation pile? In the Free Cell game I play, the object of the game, and the only way you can win, is to get ALL the cards into the foundation piles.
 
If you built your run from K to Ace without putting the ace up to the foundation that would do it. Right?

Your final move would be to hit "autorun" and place the first ace to the foundation pile and the computer would run the game out.
 
Welshman said:
OK, I'm confused. How do you win without putting cards in the foundation pile? In the Free Cell game I play, the object of the game, and the only way you can win, is to get ALL the cards into the foundation piles.
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Targets Guy said:
If you built your run from K to Ace without putting the ace up to the foundation that would do it. Right?

Your final move would be to hit "autorun" and place the first ace to the foundation pile and the computer would run the game out.
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Yes, exactly that.
 
I sometimes hope that nobody gains access to my computer and discovers how many solitaire games I have played. Now, no worries. Some of y'all make me look almost normal. Oh ya, Spider is the cure for a FreeCell addiction. Anybody have a cure for Spider addiction?
 
Targets Guy said:
If you built your run from K to Ace without putting the ace up to the foundation that would do it. Right?

Your final move would be to hit "autorun" and place the first ace to the foundation pile and the computer would run the game out.
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That's where the games apparently differ. In the Free Cell game that I play, once an ace is uncovered, it automatically is placed to the foundation piles - the player has no choice. Once that happens, when the two is uncovered, it automatically goes to the foundation piles, and so on.

Every so often, the next consecutive card doesn't automatically go up - I'm not sure why - but for the most part, they do.
 
Welshman said:
That's where the games apparently differ. In the Free Cell game that I play, once an ace is uncovered, it automatically is placed to the foundation piles - the player has no choice. Once that happens, when the two is uncovered, it automatically goes to the foundation piles, and so on.

Every so often, the next consecutive card doesn't automatically go up - I'm not sure why - but for the most part, they do.
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You might check and see if you can negate that by unchecking a box. When it happens can you back up the move in case you don't want the cards to go up automatically?
 
Targets Guy said:
You might check and see if you can negate that by unchecking a box. When it happens can you back up the move in case you don't want the cards to go up automatically?
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No, there is no option to negate that. If a card is sent up "automatically", you can "undo" the move, however as soon as you make another move (unless you cover the card), it will be sent back up.
 
I'm a "watching paint dry" junkie! Just about as entertaining as Freecell (to me anyway)! :o
 
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