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FreeCell Image From SCScompA's Newsletter Dec. 2001

Those of you who are regular readers of my monthly newsletters know that I often mention FreeCell. The no-cost Microsoft version of FreeCell offers 32,000 FreeCell deals. Those of you who are not regular players of FreeCell may be of the opinion all the deals are similar. Well, not in my opinion! I enjoy FreeCell and if you have not yet tried it: Give it a try sometime. I use FreeCell in three different ways:

• Trying to complete all 32,000 deals.... starting at deal number 1. I am into the 2040-area now. At this rate it will only take me 25 years more. As I complete each deal I keep track of how many "restarts" I had and log that number. I have a table (see the last item in this Web page) that reports, in my experience, what are the restarts-per deal. Viewing that table you will find the deals I feel are most difficult to complete and so on. Deal 598 remains the most difficult Microsoft FreeCell deal I have found.

• Try to keep track of FreeCell moves-per-successful deal. I have found that when you solve a FreeCell deal, around 45 moves is average.

• "Compete" with another friend/family member by completing a deal, keeping the number of restarts as a criteria -- and seeing if the friend/family member can successfully complete the deal in less restarts. I usually lose these competitions... but, I am getting better as time goes on!

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