Loaded4th

Essay; I've been playing Freecell since the release of Windows for Workgroups in 1992 with the 32-bit extension to Windows. I still use the same game (actually called The Microsoft 32,000), because the original version creates a file called entpack.ini along with the score. I keep a backup of this file without any losses, plus one (1). Thus when I launch Freecell and look at the statistics, the number of the next game to play is displayed! Over 17 years that's an average of 2.9 games per day. All of the 32,000 Microsoft deals except for number 11982 are solvable. When Microsoft released Windows XP in 2001 they introduced a new version of FreeCell that extends the number of available deals up to 1 million. The first 32,000 are the same as in earlier versions of MS FreeCell. Eight of the one million deals are apparently impossible. While some deals are harder than others, the level of difficulty is somewhat relative to the general strategy one plays the game. Also, the fewer the range of steps to solve any game, the harder the game will be. My general strategy is to aim for alternating colors for Ace placement and to try and make each column from King down as long as possible.

Just completed [Windows] game 18000 having completed each game up to that number.

To say hi. More reclusive than social, but like to share ideas and information. Interested in metaphysical and esoteric things and being creative--especially making things more efficient or novel. :Alien: