Spider Solitaire Help

Skanky Burns · October 2, 2003, 21:03

I'm kind of stuck in this current game of spider solitaire.
What should I do?

Skanky Burns · October 2, 2003, 21:04

And a close-up of the error message.

MattH · October 2, 2003, 21:53

Suggestion:

alva · October 2, 2003, 22:05

There's bound to be a dedicated forum for this where you can go and spit some vile...

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BTW: show-off...

Tuberski · October 2, 2003, 23:28

The only thing you can do is back off several turns and try again.

alva: He's not exactly a show-off, he's only playing 1 suit spider.

ACK!

asleepathewheel · October 3, 2003, 00:14

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Originally posted by Tuberski
He's not exactly a show-off, he's only playing 1 suit spider.

Ouch. what a novice. And he loses! Embarrassing!

I love spider solitaire, I wish I had that and free cell on my IPAQ

Skanky Burns · October 3, 2003, 05:29

This thread is for discussing Spider Solitaire, btw. Feel free to contribute. Is anyone able to play the medium or hard levels? On medium I managed to get three piles of cards down before the end, but thats the best I can manage so far.

DrSpike · October 3, 2003, 05:36

What's Spider Solitaire?

Spaced Cowboy · October 3, 2003, 09:45

I play medium all the time (pretty much every time I turn on my home PC). I think that I average 60% wins. I've tried hard, but it is that, very, very hard. I've only won a few times and it is very frustrating. I'm convinced that winning on hard is just pure luck.

As to your current situation, you are screwed. You cannot undo once a full stack is made and retired to the left-bottom corner. The key is to not get to that point. I've had many games where I could have taken a stack but did not because I would have been left in a similar situation.

Dr. Spike, I cannot believe that you do not know what spider solitaire is. It is a freebie that comes with XP. I think that I am more addicted to this than to freecell. I'm alsways up for a short game of something spider/freecell/minesweeper, before I get involved with the deeper games, and then usually finish the comp session with one of these afterwards.

DrSpike · October 3, 2003, 13:41

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Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
Dr. Spike, I cannot believe that you do not know what spider solitaire is. It is a freebie that comes with XP.

Well I prefer Win2k, so that's why.

ColdWizard · October 3, 2003, 13:46

I have 30 wins on difficult to go along with about 260 losses

On medium I've an average of a mere 40%

DrSpike · October 3, 2003, 13:52

SC said its luck...............I don't like patience games where luck is too large a factor, I prefer games that can always be won with skill, like Freecell.

Tuberski · October 3, 2003, 18:23

I play medium at about 40%. Won't try hard until I'm good at medium.

But, I never lost on easy either.

ACK!

alva · October 3, 2003, 20:14

Freecell is a good game, it would be nice to get an new version of ti though, one that can be expanded to fit your screen.

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I'm averaging around 50% on medium spider too.

asleepathewheel · October 3, 2003, 21:41

I had a friend who kept a spreadsheet of all the FreeCell games he had completed.

What a dork. Nonetheless, I thought it a good idea but haven't played much since.

Tuberski · October 3, 2003, 22:54

I always tried to see how many freecell games I could win in a row.

23 wins at one time.

ACK!

alva · October 3, 2003, 23:07

Only 12

Anyone know if there is an increased dificulty when having long winning streaks?or winning percentage being high?

DrSpike · October 4, 2003, 07:01

I did loads in a row............I don't remember exactly, but it was well over 50. The go I mucked up I did something incredibly dumb, and, strangely for a simple relaxing game, I was actually quite annoyed.