Sad Solitaire player

[aprisa]

At the risk of being branded the saddest "get a life" member here, just to put my mind at rest.....
Has anyone got Spider Solitaire out on the hardest setting?
If not I'll have to go and get some work done
Nick

[kevinday]

Nope, rarely make it on the middle setting!

[johnelliott]

What's this Spider Solitaire then? I'll give it a go. I play freecell quite alot. I downloaded Fcpro and it tells you if the game is soluble or not which is handy

John

[swilly]

Whats the quickest you have completed the basic solitaire version provided with various editions of MS windows.

73 here.

[Graham.J]

ARGH, how the hell do you play this, I'm finding it hard on one suit.

[Size Nine Elm]

At the risk of being branded the saddest "get a life" member here, just to put my mind at rest.....
Has anyone got Spider Solitaire out on the hardest setting?
If not I'll have to go and get some work done
Nick

Frequently

[aprisa]

John
Spider comes with ME and XP easily transfers if you have another pc with it on.
Easy and Medium are a doddle to complete (around 75% on medium) Hard is proving a Bd
Nick

[aprisa]

Size Nine Elm said:

At the risk of being branded the saddest "get a life" member here, just to put my mind at rest.....
Has anyone got Spider Solitaire out on the hardest setting?
If not I'll have to go and get some work done
Nick

Frequently

Damn !!!!

[trackdemon]

johnelliott said: What's this Spider Solitaire then? I'll give it a go. I play freecell quite alot. I downloaded Fcpro and it tells you if the game is soluble or not which is handy

John

It is in water. Your monitor might pack up though...

[anonymous-user]

It's the only game in town.......

2 suit game pretty easy, hard one impossible IMHO. (Except for nerds).

What's your best score at pinball then?

[aprisa]

Ok this is a bit Spooky!
I promise hand an heart that the second time I tried after Size Nine said it could be done......I did it!!
I have been trying on and off for six months.
Going for a lie down
Nick

[dazren]

Currently running at about a 2% success rate. So yes but pretty infrequently.

DAZ

[danhay]

johnelliott said: What's this Spider Solitaire then? I'll give it a go. I play freecell quite alot. I downloaded Fcpro and it tells you if the game is soluble or not which is handy

John

I thought ALL Freecell games were do-able?
My record was 400ish games without loss (on my old PC).

[MikeyT]

johnelliott said: What's this Spider Solitaire then? I'll give it a go. I play freecell quite alot. I downloaded Fcpro and it tells you if the game is soluble or not which is handy

John

What, whether it dissolves in water

Sorry

[Size Nine Elm]

dazren said: Currently running at about a 2% success rate. So yes but pretty infrequently.

Don't know what my success rate is (only have it on m/c at home, not work) but I would guess between 5 and 10%. Not that hard really - you also have to know when to give up and start a new game

[kevinday]

johnelliott said: What's this Spider Solitaire then? I'll give it a go. I play freecell quite alot. I downloaded Fcpro and it tells you if the game is soluble or not which is handy

John

After practising for about 100 games I reset the counter and now have a 100% success rate with Freecell (about 1000 games) and have yet to find one that does not come out.

[johnelliott]

danhay said:

johnelliott said: What's this Spider Solitaire then? I'll give it a go. I play freecell quite alot. I downloaded Fcpro and it tells you if the game is soluble or not which is handy

John

I thought ALL Freecell games were do-able?
My record was 400ish games without loss (on my old PC).

I did a search on Free Cell one day, and came up with the US website where someone had written a different version which I downloaded. Much better than MS version, full undo and auto solve. When you think you might be up a blind alley you can use it to check if the game is solvable from that point.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure there is supposed to be one of the MS hands which is unsolvable, but I can't remember which. I'll have a look later

John