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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1853
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 10:37 pm: | |
Just a question. I have played #1 through #130. But when I post my score it only registers 119 played. Why? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1322
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 11:49 pm: | |
I hope someone knows the answer, Mike, because I don't want to have to play 75 more games to find out. It's like torture. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5702
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 4:36 am: | |
I answered this recently in another thread. The stats will only register the games in which YOU have made a move. So in 11 of the first 130 there are no possible moves so the stats don't even record them as losers. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5703
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 4:45 am: | |
These are my stats for the first 175 games of Block in self imposed Climb Mode. I have 13 games that didn't record at all. I couldn't see any possible moves in them.
I'm continuing playing Block under another name and trying to find higher scoring ones. 22 is still my top score at 5600 played. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5704
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 4:45 am: | |
These are my stats for the first 175 games of Block in self imposed Climb Mode. I have 13 games that didn't record at all. I couldn't see any possible moves in them.
I'm continuing playing Block under another name and trying to find higher scoring ones. 22 is still my top score at 5600 played. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5705
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 4:47 am: | |
Another File Locking Error. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1323
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 5:28 am: | |
Richard, as you know I play random game numbers, and I played 55 and all of them were recorded, and I could almost swear there were a few that I had no moves, not even the Aces. I'll play a few more and this time play close attention. It really doesn't matter, but I'm just curious. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1324
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 5:43 am: | |
Okay, this time, I played 67 games, and it didn't count the 2 games where I had no moves. However, it did count the games where I had no moves but where the Aces came up even though my score was 0. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5706
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 5:43 am: | |
Kathy, Create a new player. Play #29 then click on new game. Check your stats. Nothing recorded, as there were no cards you could move. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 6:03 am: | |
You're right. Those games that were registered even though I had a score of 0 I must have made a move even though I didn't get any points from the move. Problem solved. BTW, I think the game would be more interesting if we could move the cards in a group. That way there might be some games that could be won. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5707
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 6:57 am: | |
That's exactly what happens Kathy. Yes, moving blocks of cards would help a lot. Even then it would probably be very difficult. As things stand Block is likely to remain un-won. I look forward to seeing the stats posted by the usual suspects. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5708
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 7:07 am: | |
Mike, You're underneath Kathy in the stats. Any pearls of wisdom for us?
(Debbie wanted me to give you a hard time whilst she was away). |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1855
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 11:18 am: | |
I remember reading your discussion of the stats in the Beta test area. But of course I forgot what I had read. Kathy played the game first. So she gets to be above me. I also have been playing in self imposed climb. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5713
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 5:48 pm: | |
Here is an interesting thought. Do you suppose that the more losing games of Block you play, the lower you will drop in the table?
Have you guys won any Arsenal or Windsor Castle games? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1329
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 10:07 pm: | |
I've lost the 9 games I've played so far of Arsenal and the one Windsor Castle game. I've won at least one game of most of the other new ones except of course for Block. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1330
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 10:10 pm: | |
I was surprised that Mike was below me because he played more games than me. I'm not that good at percentages. Can you explain to me why Mike shouldn't be first? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5714
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 4:37 am: | |
Because he's a bigger loser?
But seriously I think it may be as I suggested as 5.48, you have not lost as many games as he has. If I am correct you will drop beneath Mike if you play more games than he has. The other alternative that occurred to me was that it could be an alphabetical list. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5715
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 4:47 am: | |
Nope! It's not alphabetical.
If Mike can submit newer stats showing more game splayed than me, then we should know for sure. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1331
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 4:52 am: | |
I find it curious that all of us have an average score of 3. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1332
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 8:56 am: | |
I am now in third place in the stats. So in order to be on top a person must play the least amount of games. Good luck to anyone who thinks they might win a game. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5716
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 10:35 am: | |
We now have a strange situation whereby the person who submits 50 games wil be at the top of the table, yet the person who knows his/her pan in playing thousands in an attempt to WIN one will be at the bottom.....(Exactly the OPPOSITE of 101). Of course that nutter may actually fluke a winner eventually.
The average score of three is probably fairly close to what you'd get if you played every hand that was dealt to you. My average score is now 4 because I'm ignoring any game with less that 5 of a start. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1333
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 12:32 pm: | |
Yet it doesn't seem quite fair at least in this case since it's like torture to play this game. So if I was in charge of stats, I'd give top score to the poor (you know who) who took the time to play it so much. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1492
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 4:54 pm: | |
Gregg, I was curious about Kathy's comment about everybody playing Block having an average score of 3 so I played 50 games which I then had a total score of 207, and it gave me an average score of 3 also. I don't know about over at MSU, but at U of I 207 divided by 50 is over 4.
(Sorry, Gregg, but with college football 2 weeks away, I gotta start getting my shots in! Are you looking forward to the MSU-Iowa rematch?) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5722
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 5:12 pm: | |
Kenneth, my fine fellow, you may have arrived at game #50 with a score of 207, but I will bet my next holiday that your stats have not recorded 50 games. Go through them and you'll see some have not been recorded.
You've spent too much time at the beach perhaps? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5723
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 5:16 pm: | |
There is something wrong with that logic. Excuse my bare cheek.
I should be in bed. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1339
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 9:44 pm: | |
Mike, I just looked at the stats. I give up. How about you? Ken, I see that your 50 games were recorded, so I'd be interested to know why your average score was 3 also. I'm so confused! |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1862
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 10:38 pm: | |
I have found no winners in the first 300 games. I will continue playing once in a while. But I h/old out little hope. Ken showed the reason why we are stuck at an average of three. It just works out that way. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5724
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 12:02 am: | |
This should cheer you up...........not!
It's 6am. Up,showered and raring to go. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5725
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 1:00 am: | |
Ken, What does the U stand for in U. of I.? Underestimated, Underachievers or is is simply Under fire? May we put your "mathematics" down to a mental Block?
Anyway, can't hang about here talking rubbish to you lot. Some of us have got excursions planned. Soon to be Under way. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1399
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 7:38 am: | |
If Thomas or Gregg reads this post, why did you make a game that is impossible to win? I keep going back to it once in a while hoping I'll get lucky, but it doesn't even seem that luck has anything to do with it either. Has anyone won this game? |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 491
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 11:50 pm: | |
>If Thomas or Gregg reads this post, why did you make a game that is impossible to win?
Hey, they cannot all be easy. 
(Seriously, Thomas chooses the games and implements them for Pretty Good Solitaire [Windows]).
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Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1401
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 6:53 am: | |
Then it's Thomas I'm upset with, not you Gregg. I don't even care if I don't win a game. I'd just like to see if someone could do it. I don't expect all games to be easy but there should be at least a chance to win. |
Thomas Warfield (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 18
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 9:39 am: | |
There are two kinds of games that are popular - those that can be won nearly all the time (but usually not easily), such as FreeCell, and those that are very difficult to win. There needs to be some games that are difficult to win. As you can see, Block is difficult to win and it has generated more activity than many other of the new games.
I doubt Block is more difficult to win than, say, Tam O'Shanter.
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Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1652
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 10:13 am: | |
I think, Thomas, such games, which are nearly not winnable, are also for that to train someones patience. For me, i have to do sometimes some puzzles (?) to calm down my patience. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1883
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 12:42 pm: | |
Solitaire/Patience. What a concept. Oh. It's been done. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1653
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 12:49 pm: | |
When i understand you write (while reading your conversations with Richard), then you train your patience nearly every day at home.  |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1884
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 3:21 pm: | |
I attempt to keep my patience under control. But no one is perfect. |
Ken Blackwell (Blackie9)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Blackie9
Post Number: 525
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 9:12 pm: | |
Thomas I would not say that. I compare it more to British Canister or Queens and Jacks. I won Tam O'Shanter at least once. Or maybe Kings and Aces |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5862
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 3:10 pm: | |
What!!!!!!
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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1891
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 5:08 pm: | |
I figured someone solved one hand and had not run up fifty hands played. But posted anyway. Also. We know that one hand is winnable. I forget the number. And I don't need to remember it. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5867
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 6:48 pm: | |
No Mike, the losses column adds up correctly. I'd be very annoyed if someone professes to have won Block and doesn't post the winning number. It's high time that the universal number was disabled or removed from PGS completely anyway. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1892
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 9:37 pm: | |
Take away the universal number! That may be the only winner I will ever have in Block. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5868
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 5:10 am: | |
What is your best score with Block Mike? I have a 25. Even scoring 10 is no mean feat. |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Yankeegal
Post Number: 279
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 8:04 am: | |
Regarding BLock--is it even winnable? Should we even be bothering with it at all? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5869
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 10:05 am: | |
As every possible combination of cards is present for every game, it follows that it is possible for us to win at least a few of every one of them. This includes Block, British Canister etc. If nobody plays them then it is absolutely certain that nobody will ever win one. If we all played a few hands of Block every day, sooner or later one of us would find the first winner. |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Yankeegal
Post Number: 280
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 10:32 am: | |
Oh, most definitely--you won't get any argument from me there, Richard. I can see playing it for a while and then going back to it--I know, someone will win it eventually----by the way, I won Rough Rider--that was nice. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1893
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 6:35 pm: | |
21 with hand 1130 is my best so far. Playing in order. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5872
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 5:01 am: | |
I'm just playing them in random order Mike. Any score of 10 or more is infrequent. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1898
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 5:04 pm: | |
Very true. It's to bad we can't play it the way you suggested. At least there might be a chance. |
Patricia Traynier (Trisha)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Trisha
Post Number: 179
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 7:36 am: | |
I have played 546 games of Block,using random numbers.My highest score is also 25 for #1918975871. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5880
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 7:55 am: | |
Thanks Trisha. I've played over 8000 with no improvement on your 25. I scored the same with 1774761215. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1416
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 1:48 pm: | |
If Thomas reads this post I would just like him to know that I think it's a dirty trick to give us a game it seems no one can win unless that person uses the universal number which to me is just cheating. I'm very disappointed in this game. |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 493
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 4:42 pm: | |
>If Thomas reads this post I would just like him to know that I think it's a dirty trick to give us a game it seems no one can win unless that person uses the universal number which to me is just cheating. I'm very disappointed in this game.
Seriously? In that case, I guess you only have 749 other games to play instead...
(Block is currently the third most popular of the new games, and that does not even include 8384 of the games reported in this thread.)
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5881
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 5:06 pm: | |
Gregg...........Have you any comment re my post " Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 3:10 pm:"?
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You can please some of the people some of the time etc. |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 494
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 6:08 pm: | |
>Have you any comment re my post " Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 3:10 pm:"?
I assumed you guys had it figured out. It was probably caused by somebody posting a single win and not playing any further. (It may even have been somebody testing the victory conditions for the game.)
As far as removing the "universal number" (more accurately, the unshuffled deal) is concerned, I think that is unlikely (though it is not my call).
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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1901
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 6:18 pm: | |
I figured it out. Block as we have said is one of those very difficult games. I will continue playing. Even though the chances of a win are slim. (or none existant) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5882
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 6:30 pm: | |
My instinct is to disagree with both of you. For what you've deduced to be true is would follow that the total in the adjacent column would have to be 1622. The game that was "won  " would have to be included in both totals. |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 495
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 6:45 pm: | |
>For what you've deduced to be true is would follow that the total in the adjacent column would have to be 1622. The game that was "won" would have to be included in both totals.
The adjacent column is "Losses", which clearly should not include a win.
There is, indeed, one more (i.e., 1622) in the "Total Games" column above, as expected, and this continues to be true on the server itself.
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Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1417
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 9:15 pm: | |
The reason the game is so popular is that everyone is trying to win it. I don't think anybody cares who wins it anymore just that someone proves it is winnable. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1559
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 10:31 pm: | |
Gregg, any predictions on the Michigan-Michigan State game this weekend? (Especially in light of the BIG MSU victory over Wisconsin?) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5883
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 5:21 am: | |
I really shouldn't attempt logical thinking at 1am, should I? I wasn't in my bed two minutes before I realized what a twit I'd been.
Almost everyone is trying to win Block. We all want to find a winner. This statement would have been true of every one of the hundreds of other PGS games at one point in their lives. Somebody had to be the first to win them. Some players like games that are almost impossible to lose, others like games that are almost impossible to win. That's as it should be.....something for everybody.
I'm sure that Mike and Trisha will agree that it is quite exciting when you get a good hand of Block and the cards keep coming up in your favour and you get closer and closer to achieving your personal best score, and heaven forbid, even beating it. It gives me a buzz anyway. I like it.
Re the Unshuffled Deck, or the Universal Number, or the Cheats Charter, or whatever you choose to call it........it's a pain in the derriere. Every honest player would like to see the back of it. Why not set the acceptable parameters of the "Select Game" box to one number fewer than it allows at present? Job done.
It would also go down very well if the offending "winner" was removed from the stats for Block. |
Patricia Traynier (Trisha)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Trisha
Post Number: 180
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 8:17 am: | |
I find that playing Block is quite addictive.You keep on playing one more game in the hope that you will get a good run of the cards,and make a good score, even if you don't actually win. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1904
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 1:11 pm: | |
I feel the same Trisha. Also I can see the display without my glasses. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1419
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 4:12 pm: | |
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't like the game. That makes sense. No one likes me, and I don't like what everyone else does. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1561
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 6:44 pm: | |
Greg, no predictions??? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5888
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 6:54 pm: | |
I predict that Gregg will have a prediction. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1421
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 9:18 pm: | |
What is Gregg supposed to predict? I see that no one protested that they did like me, so I guess I walked right into that one. At least I know where I stand. But at least my cat likes me. |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 496
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 9:48 pm: | |
>Gregg, any predictions on the Michigan-Michigan State game this weekend?
Oh, I predict that the "Big House" will have a lot more disappointed fans at the end of the day, but that here in East Lansing, there will be parties in the street.
Everybody I know on the team wants to take an undefeated record into Iowa at the end of the month. (Of course, I do not actually know anybody on the team. )
>I predict that Gregg will have a prediction.
True 'nuf.
In case you were wondering, the biggest rivalry game of the year for Michigan State University is playing the University of Michigan (in college [American] football), which game takes place this Saturday. This year, both teams are undefeated (5-0) and ranked (at adjacent positions) in the Top 20 nationally (#16/#17 USA Today, #17/#18 AP).
I expect and hope that Michigan State will win.
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Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1422
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 10:10 pm: | |
Gregg, you are nearly a neighbor of mine. I live in Northwest Indiana near Gary. I hope Michigan State wins. I like Michigan. I used to visit it all the time and have been to Lansing. My favorite town though is Grand Rapids. I love it there. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1562
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 - 10:53 pm: | |
After seeing Michigan State dismantle Wisconsin last weekend, I'm going to predict the same thing.
I know I'm being a homer but I will actually guarantee that Iowa will NOT lose this Saturday! |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5889
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 5:15 am: | |
What you guys need is an octopus. |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 498
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 5:29 pm: | |
>Gregg, you are nearly a neighbor of mine. I live in Northwest Indiana near Gary.
Yes, I know. You are just about at the midpoint between here and the "Goodsol Development World Headquarters" in Springfield.
>I hope Michigan State wins.
Me too.
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Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 499
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 5:33 pm: | |
>I know I'm being a homer but I will actually guarantee that Iowa will NOT lose this Saturday!
Looking at the schedule, Iowa does not have an easy go of things for a few weeks (until Indiana ), and then you still have Ohio State to come!
Honestly, some of the pundits around here picked MSU to go to the Rose Bowl, at least partially because we do not have to contend with OSU this year (and they may be going elsewhere).
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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1563
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 5:49 pm: | |
Gregg, if you looked at Iowa's schedule, you now know that the reason Iowa won't lose this Saturday is that they are NOT playing this weekend!
I hope we go up in the polls! |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1907
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 6:13 pm: | |
Football=Block. Ha! I get it. Now I will Tackle a hand of Block. |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 501
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 3:11 pm: | |
>Gregg, if you looked at Iowa's schedule, you now know that the reason Iowa won't lose this Saturday is that they are NOT playing this weekend!
I knew that, and I originally meant to say that the Hawkeyes should take advantage of the break because of (most of) the rest of the schedule. (Poor editing on my part. )
>I hope we go up in the polls!
Although it makes no sense, mathematically, I suspect that you will pass Michigan after they lose tomorrow.
(My father always used to point out how the #2 team would always plummet in the polls after losing to the #1 team, despite that being the exact outcome predicted by the rankings.)
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Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1432
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 3:14 pm: | |
Gregg, could you do me a favor and look if you see my posts under Is it Winnable - Sea Towers...? No one has answered numerous postings, and I'm worried that there might be something wrong with my computer and the postings are only showing up to me. Thanks. |
Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Seelhoff
Post Number: 503
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 3:27 pm: | |
>No one has answered numerous postings[...]
I had already written a response there before reading this message; in short:
Relax and give people some time.
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5893
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 6:00 am: | |
I've been VERY busy playing Block.
I am probably playing about one game out of every ten that are offered to me randomly. It would follow that the winning percentage must be lower than 1:100000.
Scores of 10+ are scarce. Scores of 20+ are very rare indeed. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1908
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 1:17 pm: | |
You have been busy. I am no where close to the hands that you have played. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1565
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 1:29 pm: | |
Not only that, Mike, but rumor has it that Richard was also over in Aberdeen seeing Donald Trump accept an honorary doctorate from Robert Gordon University. My how Richard gets around! |
Patricia Traynier (Trisha)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Trisha
Post Number: 181
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 1:49 pm: | |
I wouldn't be able to play that amount of games in a month of Sundays. my total is just over 1000. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5897
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 3:53 pm: | |
Donald Trump was indeed at R.G.U. to receive his doctorate. The press had predicted a large group of protesters. One man with a wee dog turned up. He is unpopular with a small section of the locals because his plans include the compulsory purchase of some land he requires. The vast majority think it's great that he is going to build the "best golf course in the world" in our area. Jobs will be created. It will bring money into the area. Good luck to the man. Whilst he was here he said that he would probably run for U.S.President next time around. I reckon that a businessman of his calibre would make a far better job than some other presidents you've had in my lifetime.
In some parts of the U.K. his surname is slang for an involuntary release of gas. Obviously presidential material.
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Sorry Trisha, I admit I am hurtling through Block at breakneck speed. You can play a hand in next to no time. Not much skill involved, but as you said recently, it's addictive. I'd appreciate hearing about any 20+ numbers you run into. Maybe we won't find any winners, but we'll give it a darned good try.
This is my latest position.
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Patricia Traynier (Trisha)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Trisha
Post Number: 182
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2010 - 4:20 pm: | |
I had that 1 game where I scored 25.I don't think I have had any other scores over 20,but if I do I will let you know. |
Larry Dale (Lars)
Advanced Solitaire Player
Username: Lars
Post Number: 62
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 8:18 am: | |
I think we need to award Richard a St. Jude medal.
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Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1439
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 8:37 am: | |
I have one if he wants it. I also have a St. Christopher medal which he needs because he always travels so much. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5899
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 9:10 am: | |
I don't know about St.Jude Larry, but Job might be more appropriate for anyone determined to win Block.
Kathy, are you aware of this?
"In a general housecleaning in 1969, the Catholic Church "declassified" or "desanctified" over 300 former saints, including such notables as St. Christopher, after a review of available documents offered insufficient evidence to justify sainthood". We'll just have to call him Chris in future. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1440
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 9:41 am: | |
The Eastern Orthodox Church venerates Saint Christopher on May 9. The Tridentine Calendar allowed a commemoration of Saint Christopher on 25 July only in private Masses. This restriction was lifted later (see General Roman Calendar as in 1954). Although the Roman Catholic Church still approves devotion to him, listing him in the Roman Martyrology among the saints venerated on 25 July[1], Pope Paul VI removed his feast day from the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in his 1969 motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis. At that time the church declared that this commemoration was not of Roman tradition, in view of the relatively late date (about 1550) and limited manner in which it was accepted into the Roman calendar.[2] |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5900
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 10:52 am: | |
Yes, would have done. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1910
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 1:36 pm: | |
"Just the facts, Mam." |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5920
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 1:12 pm: | |
13000!......Another milestone reached. My highest score has rocketed past 25 and now stands at 26!
To help stave of impending insanity I am also trying to raise my average score to the dizzy height of 6. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1919
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 4:04 pm: | |
I have played #1 to #2400. Had a 15 pointer in the last five hands. I felt like I had won. |
Larry Dale (Lars)
Advanced Solitaire Player
Username: Lars
Post Number: 63
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 8:18 am: | |
# 894562368 is an interesting deal, but in the end still leaves >50 cards left in the stock to block further progress. I wonder if in the development of this game, simulations were run and deals with further potential were identified. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5958
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 9:33 am: | |
Larry, I'd have my doubts about simulations being run for Block. If that were so, surely they wouldn't have come up with such an unachievable difficulty rating of 1%. A truer percentage could actually be 1%.....1% of 1%. |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Yankeegal
Post Number: 284
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 10:02 am: | |
I useed to think that 13 Packs or The Plot were unwinnable but I have come to the conclusiion that "Block" is utterly impossible--it will never be won, at least, not by this player. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1455
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 11:05 am: | |
I agree with you Frances. I don't know about the Plot, but I did win 13 packs a couple of times. The reason Block makes me so angry is the very fact that it is unwinnable. I don't mind a difficult game, but I don't like impossible games. However, others seem to like the challenge. I hope somebody wins it, but I doubt if anyone will. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5961
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 12:08 pm: | |
We've been over this before. Block is not unwinnable. It just hasn't been won yet.
We all know about the unshuffled deck being a winner. It follows that there must be a large number of other deals that are very similar to it. Sooner or later someone will find one. It may not be in our lifetime, but...... |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Yankeegal
Post Number: 285
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 3:37 pm: | |
Hi Kathy--I lvoe a challenge too and I have won 13 Packs twice But this one is getting me to the point where I just don't feel like bothering with it anymore. And yet, I get drawn back--there must be a way to win it!!!! |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1935
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 4:47 pm: | |
I have come no where close to playing as many hands as Richard. And it does get frustrating. But I keep playing. The winner is just one more deal away. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1456
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 10:54 pm: | |
One of my main objections is that under the rules, it is listed as skill/luck balanced. I think it should be just pure luck. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1937
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 11:51 pm: | |
Would it be something if the only winner was the magic number. Pickets join me at Thomas's house. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1457
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 12:11 am: | |
I'll be there. I don't live that far away from Thomas. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5976
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 7:21 am: | |
Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5977
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 7:33 am: | |
OK, in simple terms, imagine the "magic number" as 1,2,3,4,5. As every possible combination is available somewhere in PGS, 1,2,3,5,4 would be there, and as many permutations of 1,2,3,4,5 as exist. Now if you imagine Mike's magic number as 1,2 etc through to 52 you must realise that there are loads of combinations only 1 away from the perfect number. That's what you have to try and keep in mind when you are playing Block. There are numerous needles in that particular haystack. If it was an actual haystack, sooner or later somebody would sit on one. Let's persevere, but take care how you sit down. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1458
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 8:25 am: | |
Like you said earlier, Richard, the game will eventually be won but probably not in our lifetime, That makes me kind of sad. I thought PGS was supposed to make you happy, as least temporarily. |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 662
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 8:49 am: | |
Hi
I have done some calculations but just with 1 pack of cards
There are 52! possible deals
which is about 8 followed by 67 zeros
So suppose everybody in the world was to deal a different sequence of cards at the rate of one per second, it would take 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000 years to deal all combinations. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5979
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 9:30 am: | |
Don't ever become an accountant Paul, and for goodness sake don't run for Chancellor of the Exchequer!.
In the "select game" tab you can choose between 1 and 214748364 different deals. Therefore 100 people would have to play 2,147,483 games each. There are 525,948 minutes in a year, so the theoretical task could be undertaken in about 4 years if the 100 people played a game each every minute.
Incidentally the 214748364 different deals in PGS has never made any sense to me. How can the figure remain constant irrespective of whether you are playing a simple one pack game or a very complex 4 pack game? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5980
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 9:37 am: | |
Kathy, why "angry", why "sad" ? It's ONE silly game that you don't have to play at all? Leave it alone. There are covens of witches across the world but we don't have to join. Forget about Block. The world is full of things I don't like. I just stick to what gives ME pleasure. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1459
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 9:45 am: | |
I guess you told me off, Richard! It must give you pleasure. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5981
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 10:06 am: | |
I didn't tell you off Kathy. I tried to reason with you. I attempted to point out that there is no point in upsetting yourself over a stupid game. I don't know why I bother. |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 663
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 11:50 am: | |
Hi Richard
a slight correction to your figures
it is 2,147,483,647 games so this comes to over 40 years
this number is apparently the highest that 32 bit cpu computer can handle and is the same for many games it is equal to 2 to the power of 31-1 whereas the total deals is 2 to the power of 52-1 so is well short of all the possible deals
it is also related a time problem like the millenium bug that will occur in 2038 as most computers use their date system from Jan 1 1970 and it use seconds to go up but when it will reach this number it will become a minus and think the date is 1901 |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5983
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 1:45 pm: | |
Apologies Paul, a bit of a problem with the old copy and paste technique there.
What you are saying in effect is that only some of the possible combinations are present in PGS. Therefore with games like Block we don't even know that a winnable combination (apart from the unshuffled deck) is even present. How on earth do we find out?
I had been hoping to find a few high scores, but to date I cannot exceed 26, exactly 25% of a winning total! A major obstacle in the path of a winnable game is that any card covered by a king must remain buried until the entire stock has been exhausted. In fact any lower card covered by any face card is a huge problem. However, I'm playing it by choice so there is no point in moaning about it. I must be mad!
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Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1707
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 2:26 pm: | |
Just for information: i started at work with #1000000 and have now reached about game #1000110 . I will go on as fast as work allows. I have still to work about 25 years, so Paul, at what number i could be when i can play every week about 50 games.
BTW, i think 52! is not the right number, because cards are dealt to the foundation piles during shuffle (when i remember the rules right), that means, there are permutations, which are leading to the same game at the end. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5984
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 5:36 pm: | |
There is also quite a curious dealing method in Block. As the cards are dealt every playable card goes immediately onto the foundations before any other cards are dealt. I have seen 12 cards on the foundations before I get a chance to do anything. For this reason you will never see an ace in the tableau. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1460
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 5:49 pm: | |
Richard, you bother because you like me. You ought to know my personality by now. BTW, I was only joking. I don't beccome sad over a solitaire game. Also, once an Ace came up in the tableau when I was playing. |
Larry Dale (Lars)
Advanced Solitaire Player
Username: Lars
Post Number: 64
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 7:55 am: | |
There is also the factor that Block is a two deck game, so the number of distinct deals would be much higher. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5986
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 8:19 am: | |
A good variant for later editions would be a spare cell or perhaps two that blocking cards could be put into. It is very annoying if you have a 2 covered by a king and have the 3 - k of the same suit in the tableau and are unable to move them.
The spare cell/s could even be restricted to Kings Only, but obviously you'd not be able to move them back into the tableau unless the stock was exhausted and there was an empty column.
Drat! Yes Larry. Two packs! How did we overlook something that obvious? |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1708
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 9:17 am: | |
Don't under estimate the number permutations which lead to the same game, even if it is a two-deck game. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1601
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 6:38 pm: | |
Paul, I never knew about the Y2K38 problem. Very interesting. In 2000 I was working at Delta Airlines in the reservations department. Instead of letting us go out and party to celebrate a new millennium, we had to work up to and past midnight in case any planes fell out of the sky (as was predicted). |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 664
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 4:15 am: | |
Hi Ken
This is a good link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I was in the credit card industry and the same thing as you missing the party.
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5993
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 4:26 am: | |
Progress (or lack of it) Report.
15000 reached with only three games of 25,25 and 26 encountered. Still unable to raise my average score to 6 despite refusing practically every deal of less than 6 during the last 2000 games.
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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1941
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 12:23 am: | |
21 points with #4502. But that is the high point in the last 1000 hands. If Richard has not found anything in his 18,000+ deals. Then where is that big hand of 30 points. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1942
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 5:25 pm: | |
#1 to #5000. No hope in sight.  |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6005
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 5:36 pm: | |
You're a failure Mike. Guess that makes me a bigger failure.
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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1943
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 11:12 pm: | |
I thought you were closer to 18000. So you are not that big of a failure. Yet. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6006
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010 - 3:54 am: | |
You read 15000 as 18000 several posts ago Mike. You'll notice my average is now up to 6. That just ahppened a dew games ago. It should hit 7 at 18000 +. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1944
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010 - 12:34 pm: | |
Sipping a little dew are we Richard. Is that how you play so fast. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1951
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 6:38 pm: | |
6000 played. Good grief. Richard. More workmen? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6023
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 6:49 pm: | |
Yes Mike, there was a l-o-n-g waiting list before they could fit us in. They are installing gas central heating. Humping sacks of smokeless fuel is not all it's cracked up to be. Nor is emptying ashes and lighting a fire before you get any heat. It's starting to get very cold here. This can't come a moment too soon.
Approaching 1am here. Better hit the sack before they arrive. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1952
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 10:10 pm: | |
It's 2010. About time to get central heating. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6025
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 - 2:05 am: | |
We have central heating Mike, but not the type we want.Some people in our street even have running water and electricity. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1954
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 - 1:09 pm: | |
At least you are catching up. Next you will tell me you have indoor plumbing. The workman you had before just fixed up the outdoor facilities. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1962
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 11:10 pm: | |
Reached 7000. Nothing in the 20s. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1965
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 3:54 pm: | |
8000. I quit. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6057
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 4:24 pm: | |
Ha! I've not played it for a while Mike. Decent deals are very thin on the ground and it's got to the stage that it's quite boring. I may knock out a few more every now and again but that's it! |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1966
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 9:17 pm: | |
It would have been nice if we had received a few higher scoring hands. |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Yankeegal
Post Number: 286
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 6:57 am: | |
Has anyone won "Block" yet? If so, pass along the secret--I'm just about ready to give up. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1967
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 11:32 am: | |
I have played #1 to #8000. Richard has played at least 16000 random by now. Looking at the stats there seemed to be a winner. But the consensus is that someone played the always winnable number just to be sure it could be won and then quit. It would be very unfair for anyone to play 50 hands with one of them being the always winnable and post. In fact we would all put a curse upon them. Of course. In can happen by accident. But a curse would still be in order. It's looks like we will play it once in a while. But not steady. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6059
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 11:58 am: | |
My Voodoo Doll looks like a Hedgehog now Mike. The person who posted the "winning" number will suffer every affliction known to medical science. Some of the needles were inserted in very eye-watering places. Saying that,there is no need for you not to curse him. |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Yankeegal
Post Number: 287
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 1:18 pm: | |
OK, Richard, Mike or anyone else who can help: THis is going to sound very naive and quite possibly stupid, too, but how do you get someone else's game numbers and stats?
I thought for sure that one of you would have won Block by now--- |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6060
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 1:52 pm: | |
Maria....One way to see the stats is via your own ones. My example is for Block.
Open Block as normal and click on the "Stats" button.
Then your stats for Block will appear and you click on the button I've ticked below.
Once you are at the online stats you can navigate to those of every other game. |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
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Username: Yankeegal
Post Number: 288
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 2:35 pm: | |
Oh, Richard, I can bring up my own stats-- I thought someone had said that he saw another player's numbers--perhaps I read the message wrongly. But mention was made of a winning number--
I probabyy got it all wrong---- |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
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Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 672
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 2:42 pm: | |
Hi Looking at all the stats are you as sceptical as me on "Links"
Paul |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1968
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 3:36 pm: | |
When you see the stats there are more players listed at the very bottom than those above who have played the 50 hands required to have stats posted. If you go back and read this thread from the beginning you will find the answer in Gregg Seelhoff's own words. |
Frances Cammisa (Yankeegal)
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Post Number: 289
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| | Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 8:24 pm: | |
Thank you--I will check it ou |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Username: Markus
Post Number: 1993
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 1:32 am: | |
Ken, you said: "I won Tam O'Shanter at least once."
Do you have the winning number? |
Ken Blackwell (Blackie9)
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Username: Blackie9
Post Number: 563
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 1:25 pm: | |
1060919617 is the one I got. Probably the one most of us have. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 1:32 pm: | |
Me too now. Thanks. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1580
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2011 - 4:05 am: | |
While waiting for my eyes to get better (which will be soon), I've been playing Block. I still am under the impression it is unwinnable. Yesterday, after playing it for a while, my blood pressure even went up. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6476
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2011 - 6:36 am: | |
Copy me Kathy. Give it up as a bad job. It's just hugely frustrating. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1581
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2011 - 9:32 pm: | |
It's got to be frustrating if it raised my blood pressure. I'm trying to find a new game. Got up to around 400 on Tuxedo and hit the wrong button and lost a game. Maybe Thomas will come out with a new version soon I hope. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1582
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2011 - 9:34 pm: | |
P.S. I forgot to tell you the vision in my "bad" eye is now better than my good eye. I can't wait until they're both done. I didn't know it would make such a difference. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 6479
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 - 8:01 am: | |
We did tell you Kathy. "Alway look on the bright side of life" etc.,etc. We are pleased for you.
Does this good news mean that people won't be able to call you Cyclops now? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1583
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 - 3:42 pm: | |
Well have to wait until we see what kind of glasses I have to wear. BTW, I think Dr. Cyclops was bald, so you'll have to think of another name for me. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 - 4:34 pm: | |
I was thinking more of the mythical Cyclops Kathy. I'd already discounted PopeEye you'll be glad to here.
We are going to go away for about a week, probably leaving on thursday. I hope your vision will be much improved by the time we return. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1584
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 - 9:01 pm: | |
You'll have to think of a new nickname for me now. I just lost a tooth right in the front on the bottom. I look even funnier than I usually do. Maybe the people at the center will think I'm too funny looking and take up a collection for me to see the dentist. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 6481
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 4:20 am: | |
The most obvious response to your post would be..... "That's a funny place for a tooth Kathy". |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1585
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 12:38 pm: | |
Good one, Richard. You're pretty sharp for a man of your age. I missed that one entirely. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6484
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 12:58 pm: | |
I have a very cryptic mind, some would say "warped". It keeps me amused anyway. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1586
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 8:45 pm: | |
It keeps me amused too. Have a good time on your trip. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 6489
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 5:49 am: | |
Thanks Kathy. We will. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 6491
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 5:31 pm: | |
Wrap your laughing tackle round this clip.
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