19-05-2002 08:39									#1
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Who is into freecell? What are your records?

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	19-05-2002 08:54									#2
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I haven't played it for some time. Used to be good at it though. My record is something like 137 straight wins in a row.

	19-05-2002 09:39									#3
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try game # 178

	19-05-2002 20:04									#4
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I think my record was 7

	19-05-2002 20:49									#5
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I think I might have played Freecell about five or six times in my life ...

	20-05-2002 07:52									#6
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	20-05-2002 08:01									#7
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Freecell was the game that turned a cheerful, optimistic little kid to the world-weary wreck that is now posting this message.

	20-05-2002 08:56									#8
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That and putting up with all those w ankers in the 'poly Coffeeshop.

In other news my mom's addiction to Freecell forced me to type a three-page paper in the library before class one time.

	21-05-2002 01:22									#9
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My wins have been stuck at 91% for years.
Here are some tricky games I've come across:
19013, 927, 22907, 29596, 20547, 322, 29564, 25375, 12469, 9123, 320, 3496.

Anyone got some other difficult games?

	21-05-2002 03:17									#10
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Seems like we enjoy all the same games, GP. Since I discovered freecell, I've probably spent more time on it than on bridge.

	21-05-2002 05:12									#11
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Oh man! I keep playing Freecell while posting here and waiting for pages to load. I can't get a good score though.

	21-05-2002 08:10									#12
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REx, come on back and play bridge with me. I will start studying and stuff if you will play wioth me more. You Unlucky Expert, you!

	22-05-2002 08:15									#13
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It took me the longest time to finally win a game of Freecell.

I think I can even rememer the year, 1998 or 1999. Probably '99.

	22-05-2002 08:52									#14
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my current win percentage is 62%, i once had a win streak of 18 games during the year when my win percentage was in the low 70s

	22-05-2002 12:52									#15
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FreeCell is always solvable. At least no game is yet found to be unsolvable.
My personal objective these days is to solve the game with as few cards on the top right piles as possible. That is, find the column(s) where most aces/low cards are, do not deconstruct that column beyond a key card barring the low cards above. (Am I clear?) Use the other columns to build nice runs from king and down. Your final move is to move the barring card to one of the long columns and watch the top right piles fill up automatic.

It can in theory be done without placing a single ace, all 52 cards are automatically moved to top after moving that barring card.

Personal best is three cards up, two aces, one two (several times).
Usually, I end up in the range five to seven cards

too much time,
C.

	23-05-2002 00:10									#16
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Game 11982 hasn't been solved yet!

You might like to try Freecell Pro, lots more games (over 4 billion) plus lots of other cool features.

http://home.earthlink.net/~fomalhaut/fcpro.html

	23-05-2002 16:25									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Phssthpok Game 11982 hasn't been solved yet!

I stand corrected, then.
I see from the FreeCell FAQ that my playstyle would be called to find the longest/best flourish.

C.

	29-05-2002 08:58									#18
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When I worked for the government and was sitting on my butt for hours on end doing nothing (your tax dollars at work), I played Freecell non-stop. After a few months, my win-loss record was something like 1500-800 or some similarly ludicrous number. I did not bother to remember any tricky ones, though.

	30-05-2002 04:57									#19
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I was never that good with 57 wins and 90 losses. Many of those losses are results of me getting bored and just quitting before I really lost.

	30-05-2002 19:41									#20
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I'm totally addicted. I never replay losses. My win percentage always hovers around 90%.

Here the plan for getting the most wins in a row. Play a few times (winning them of course) and then reboot. Keep repeating. If you ever lose one, just power down your system and the losses won't be tallied

How's that for an addict?

R:PM

PS Don't get me started on Minesweeper.

	30-05-2002 22:39									#21
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That's cheating. I have rules on how often I cheat

	30-05-2002 22:59									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Garth Vader That's cheating. I have rules on how often I cheat

I tried that for a while when I was going for most wins in a row. The 90% is without cheating (otherwise would be 100%)

	01-06-2002 17:01									#23
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You don't even need to reboot. Just press [ctrl]+[alt]+[del] to bring up the task manager, then click on "freecell game#..." and press "end task". When a dialog box comes up to ask if you want to quit the game, press "no" (otherwise the game will be recorded as a loss) then wait a few seconds. Windows will tell you that the program has stopped responding and you can now close the game.

Are you tempted to cheat now?

	02-06-2002 08:11									#24
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Even quicker, highlight the FreeCell entry in the process list and click on the end task button twice. Windows prompts you to terminate the process (the game) right away. No more waiting!

	02-06-2002 22:51									#25
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What version of Windows are you using? I can't do that...

	03-06-2002 01:59									#26
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"What version of Windows are you using?"

Windows 2000 (professional).

	03-06-2002 11:32									#27
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Ah, so NT users get an easier way to cheat.
Win 98 isn't so easy, I expect XP works the same way as 2000.

	03-06-2002 20:11									#28
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Sweet, I never thought of that. Now I'm gonna freak out my Dad when he comes over and sees 400 straight victories. heh-heh

R:PM

	03-06-2002 21:32									#29
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And, if you're really desperate, you can use regedit to go into the registry and change the values for wins and losses (not that I would ever do that, of course ). The "stype" field is for the current streak type -- 0 means losses; 1 means wins.

	03-06-2002 22:36									#30
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Actually, my registry gets pretty hosed up as it is, that is, without me messing with it. Case in point, just spend most of last night reformatting my C: drive and reloading windowz. But Thanks for the tip.