FreeCell Game #1941

[BillyP]

Have any of you beat this one? I've tried off and on all day with no luck. I don't want to know how to beat it, just is it beatable. If it is, I'll keep trying

 

[Tig]

Here goes my evening.....

 

[bearhawk]

I always went under the assumption that any freecell game was winnable.

Now....

My thoughts are changing...

 

[Tig]

Yes it can be beaten. The solution is relatively short.
After 4 tries I looked it up and then tested it.

 

[texbaylea]

Have any of you beat this one? I've tried off and on all day with no luck. I don't want to know how to beat it, just is it beatable. If it is, I'll keep trying

Which version are you using, XP or Vista? The only thing to recommend Vista is that Freecell has unlimited undo.

That's why I have a 99% win record for 3400 games

Vernon

 

[BigE_]

Yep, it is very winnable. You just need to change your strategy a bit.

There are two Freecell games you absolutely cannot beat:
# -1
and
# -2

So whenever someone says they can win every Freecell game....


That being said, there is a Freecell cheat that allows you to put any card anywhere and win....

 

[bearhawk]

That being said, there is a Freecell cheat that allows you to put any card anywhere and win....

I don't see that as winning ...

 

[rox]

I remmeber that one!!!! I swear I remember winning that game. And gosh it seemed like it took me weeks adn weeks (well off and on). I went on the internet and searched and did not read the solution only that it could be won. And by gosh I was so proud when I figured it out on my own. But man o man was tha a hard one. I can't even count how many times I had to restart it and try again another tactic. But on my own I figured it out

 

[BillyP]

OK, I finally won it! Not on my own though. I looked it up, cause I have to get some sleep tonight

That's the first one I haven't been able to solve, not sure I would have ever done it without the help of the internet.

 

[tallyho8]

FreeCell is the ONLY game that I play on my Windows XP and my statistics show 2113 wins and 1 loss. My loss was # 11982 which no one has ever found a solution to. (not counting #-1 and # -2 which are set-up games and can't be won)

#1941 was definitely one of the harder games. There are a few other real hard games but they are all numbered over 100,000.

 

[Tig]

I found a way to "win" any freecall game if you want your stats to be clean.
"If you press Ctrl+Alt+F10 for any FreeCell game, you get the User-Friend User Interface dialog box. Click the Abort button to win the game; return to FreeCell and move any single card and — ta da! — you've won!"
Unsolvable games are listed in Wikipedia. There are solutions listed for games one and two on the web but I have not tried them.

 

[texbaylea]

I found a way to "win" any freecall game if you want your stats to be clean.
"If you press Ctrl+Alt+F10 for any FreeCell game, you get the User-Friend User Interface dialog box. Click the Abort button to win the game; return to FreeCell and move any single card and ta da! you've won!"
Unsolvable games are listed in Wikipedia. There are solutions listed for games one and two on the web but I have not tried them.

I just tried this on the Vista version and got zip, nada!

Neither did Ctrl-Shift-F10.

Vernon

 

[tallyho8]

I found a way to "win" any freecall game if you want your stats to be clean.
"If you press Ctrl+Alt+F10 for any FreeCell game, you get the User-Friend User Interface dialog box. Click the Abort button to win the game; return to FreeCell and move any single card and ta da! you've won!"
Unsolvable games are listed in Wikipedia. There are solutions listed for games one and two on the web but I have not tried them.

I don't believe that this would be called "winning".

Games #1 and #2 are easy to win. It's games #-1 and #-2 that are impossible.

 

[woodchuckie]

How about that frog jumping game I got in an e-mail last night. There's 6 frogs and you're supposed to swap their positions in the pond. I can't do it. It says it's a computer test for 2nd graders in China. Frog Leap Test

 

[MossRoad]

Have any of you beat this one? I've tried off and on all day with no luck. I don't want to know how to beat it, just is it beatable. If it is, I'll keep trying

Took me about 20-30 tries. Yikes! That was a tough one.

 

[MossRoad]

How about that frog jumping game I got in an e-mail last night. There's 6 frogs and you're supposed to swap their positions in the pond. I can't do it. It says it's a computer test for 2nd graders in China. Frog Leap Test

Got it first try.

In all fairness, as kid I was sick a lot and had about a bazillion board games with plenty of time to figure them out. One was a very similar jumping peg and hole game.

 

[rox]

Got it first try.

In all fairness, as kid I was sick a lot and had about a bazillion board games with plenty of time to figure them out. One was a very similar jumping peg and hole game.

Me too got it on the first try in pehaps 20 to 30 seconds. I guess some people just have the knack for this kind of usless talent To bad you can't earn money jumping frogs around, ha-ha

 

[MossRoad]

...To bad you can't earn money jumping frogs around, ha-ha

You can. It's called upper level management!

 

[srossman]

You can. It's called upper level management!

LOL That's a good one. You must work where I work Moss.

 

[MossRoad]

LOL That's a good one. You must work where I work Moss.

In all reality, I am very fortunate in that my supervisor is not a frog jumper. I've met a few over the years, though.