Freecellers come here!

TCO · May 18, 2002, 23:39

Who is into freecell? What are your records?

Let's discuss all the interesting things in freecell!

Urban Ranger · May 18, 2002, 23:54

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.

TCO · May 19, 2002, 00:39

try game # 178

Skanky Burns · May 19, 2002, 11:04

I think my record was 7

Ari Rahikkala · May 19, 2002, 11:49

I think I might have played Freecell about five or six times in my life

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Urban Ranger · May 19, 2002, 22:52

Theadjackers

Shadowstrike · May 19, 2002, 23:01

Freecell was the game that turned a cheerful, optimistic little kid to the world-weary wreck that is now posting this message.

Triped · May 19, 2002, 23:56

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.

Phssthpok · May 20, 2002, 16:22

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?

Rex Little · May 20, 2002, 18:17

Seems like we enjoy all the same games, GP. Since I discovered freecell, I've probably spent more time on it than on bridge.

Jethro83 · May 20, 2002, 20:12

Oh man! I keep playing Freecell while posting here and waiting for pages to load. I can't get a good score though.

TCO · May 20, 2002, 23:10

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!

Playa del Carmen · May 21, 2002, 23:15

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.

ColdWizard · May 21, 2002, 23:52

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

catullus · May 22, 2002, 03:52

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.

Phssthpok · May 22, 2002, 15:10

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

catullus · May 23, 2002, 07:25

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.

Boris Godunov · May 28, 2002, 23:58

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.

Apocalypse · May 29, 2002, 19:57

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.

Spaced Cowboy · May 30, 2002, 10:41

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.

Garth Vader · May 30, 2002, 13:39

That's cheating. I have rules on how often I cheat

Spaced Cowboy · May 30, 2002, 13:59

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%)

Phssthpok · June 1, 2002, 08:01

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?

MBD · June 1, 2002, 23:11

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!

Phssthpok · June 2, 2002, 13:51

What version of Windows are you using? I can't do that...

MBD · June 2, 2002, 16:59

"What version of Windows are you using?"

Windows 2000 (professional).

Phssthpok · June 3, 2002, 02:32

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.

Spaced Cowboy · June 3, 2002, 11:11

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

MBD · June 3, 2002, 12:32

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.

Spaced Cowboy · June 3, 2002, 13:36

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.