[Mr.Odwin]

Hi Pyrotex.

It took me five attempts, but I cracked free cell Game 31918.

Here is a quick walkthrough.

If there are any errors, please let me know.

FC/31918

Cards:
Hearts Ace - AH
Hearts King - HK
Hearts Queen - HQ
Hearts Jack - HJ
Hearts 10 - H10
Hearts 9 -H9
Hearts 8 - H8
Hearts 7 - H7
Hearts 6 - H6
Hearts 5 - H5
Hearts 4 - H4
Hearts 3 - H3
Hearts 2 - H2

Clubs

Club Ace - CA
Club King - CK
Club Queen - CQ
Club Jack -CJ
Club 10 - C10
Club 9 - C9
Club 8 - C8
Club 7 - C7
Club 6 - C6
Club 5 - C5
Club 4 - C4
Club 3 - C3
Club 2 - C2

Diamonds

Diamond Ace - DA
Diamond King - DK
Diamond Queen - DQ
Diamond Jack - DJ
Diamond 10 - D10
Diamond 9 - D9
Diamond 8 - D8
Diamond 7 - D7
Diamond 6 - D6
Diamond 5 - D5
Diamond 4 - D4
Diamond 3 - D3
Diamond 2 - D2

Spades

Spade Ace - SA
Spade King - SK
Spade Queen -SQ
Spade Jack - SJ
Spade 10 - S10
Spade 9 - S9
Spade 8 - S8
Spade 7 - S7
Spade 6 - S6
Spade 5 - S5
Spade 4 - S4
Spade 3 - S3
Spade 2 - S2

There are four free cells and four sort Cells. The free cells are on the Left and the sort cells on the right.
Free cells - FC
Sort Cells - SC
There are 8 columns. They will be only be used when the columns are free. They will be numbered columns 1 - 8 from left to right. For example, Column seven will appear as FC7 (Free column seven)


Game.

HA - SC
HQ - SK
CJ - QH
S8 - H9
D7 - S8
H9 - S10
SJ - FC
S10 - DJ
H7 - FC
S7 - FC
C4 - FC
H3 - SC
H4 - SC
DQ - CK
SJ - DQ
C10 - FC3
SQ - HK
H9 - C10
DJ - SQ
H10 - FC6
HQ - FC8
H10 - CJ
SK - FC6
C3 - SC
C4 - SC
H10 - SJ
HQ - SK
S6 - D7
C9 - FC8
C5 - SC
D3 - SC
C9 - FC
D6 - FC8
D10 - CJ
C9 - D10
S7 - FC1
D6 - S7
HK - FC8
S5 - D6
CQ - FC
D8 - C9
C6 - SC
C7 - SC
D9 - S10
D8 - C9
CQ - FC4
HJ - CQ
C8 - SC
DQ - FC4
CK - FC5
H6 - FC
DK - FC
- game

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by Mr.Odwin

It took me five attempts, but I cracked free cell Game 31918.

Congratulation, Mr.Odwin (and welcome to hypography!)

The XFRECEL program in post #19 found a solution to Microsoft Freecell 5.1 Game 31918 (which it enumerates as board 54523812916130883389265753019259858351953670373095 166620965479570541) consisting of 8893 moves, and requiring about 11 minutes on my old-ish PC.

Not nearly as satisfying as Mr.Odwin’s solution, showing again that a stupid computer program is no match for a smart human.

[Pyrotex]

Congratulations, Mr.Odwin!!! Thank you!!!
Now I am working on game 30466. It took me 17 (or 19 -- I lost count) tries before I succeeded. Now I cannot replicate the solution. [sigh]

Well done!
Pyro

[old man]

How about 31302? The game you talked about (31918) was relatively easy, I thought, by comparison.

[Essay]

Cool!
What's happening these days?
Get those toughies solved?

I haven't played for years, but eventually did make it thu the first 1000 without any losses (except twice when I fell asleep playing).

Any new tough ones? I might be intrigued.

[Pyrotex]

Not really. I don't play FreeCell that much anymore.
And when I do--and hit a hard game, I just quit and go on to a new one.
My days of taking FreeCell seriously are pretty much over.
Pyro.

[Boerseun]

Glad to see you're on the wagon, Pyro! Hold fast!

[johnfp]

Try games -1 and -2 !!!

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by johnfp

Try games -1 and -2 !!!

WHOA!!
DUDE!!

I always wondered if there were impossible games of FreeCell.
Now I know.
Those are so impossible, they're impossible by inspection.
Impossible squared.

thanks for bringing them to my attention.

[johnfp]

LOL, no problem. if you want to be a big shot go into the registry and search for freecell, then just put the hex number in the number of games you won. 99 99 99 00 works well. The open the game and check your stats. You have to have won at least one game for the reg entry to show up though.