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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 21
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 7:44 am: | |
Jax Ken, It's all your fault! You got me hooked on Cleopatra. I was doing fine until I got to #1964948736. BTW, did you ever win #155428353?
Thanks, Tpa Ken |
Ken Blackwell (Blackie9)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Blackie9
Post Number: 131
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 9:14 am: | |
Oh and Ive played Midshipman over 500 times because of you! No I think it unwinnable. Ill try yours |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 144
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 9:47 am: | |
Cleopatra 1964948736 is winnable. Can post solution if required.
Richard. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 22
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 11:21 am: | |
Richard, You're the man! I'm not ready to give up yet, but how about a clue. One space opens up immediately, but what should I get out first? The 7 of spades, the 5 of hearts, or one of the twos? Thanks, Tpa Ken |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 145
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 12:18 pm: | |
Hi Ken,
Glad to help. Play 3D,9S,leave space open for 2C. Regain space when 3C arrives. Next is 6H from stock into space.Then 5H onto it.Save your game here to make return easier.
Good luck with the rest of the game
Richard. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 146
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 12:23 pm: | |
A further clue is required I think, because you will possibly think you're barking up the wrong tree. At one point my waste was 32 with only 9 left in stock.
Richard. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 25
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 03, 2006 - 11:42 pm: | |
Richard or Jax Ken, How about Cleopatra #1425135872? Tpa Ken |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 152
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 4:18 am: | |
Hi Ken,
Cleopatra #1425135872 That's winnable too. Who's the daddy?
Richard. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 153
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 4:31 am: | |
Cleopatra #1425135872
1st target at stock 25, waste 20 is :-
5D,9C,10H,QC,6H,QH,5C,4H,2D.5S,8S,JD,8S.(3S on waste).
2nd target at stock 10,waste 27 is :-
empty,8C.empty,JC,6H,10H,4D,4H,2H,5S,8S,10D,8S
(QH top of waste).
After that waste reaches 30 at least 3 times.
Good luck,
Richard. |
Ken Blackwell (Blackie9)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Blackie9
Post Number: 133
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 1:10 pm: | |
My daddy can do #155428353......
you keep solving tampa Kens befor I try them.
good job. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 154
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 2:54 pm: | |
Hi Ken(B),
Sorry for spoiling your fun. Perhaps if you got up earlier??? Ha!
I presume 155428353 is Cleopatra. I know your daddy can solve it, but can you? More to the point, can I? More work!
Richard. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 26
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 7:52 pm: | |
Richard, Thanks once again for the help. Switching gears on you: how about Midshipman #1573858944? BTW, in reference to your comment to Jax Ken about getting up earlier, since Scotland is 5 hours ahead of Florida, we'd have to get up at 2am to beat you! Tpa Ken |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 27
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 3:17 am: | |
Good morning, Richard, here is your Cleopatra # for the day: 1362914560 |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 28
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 3:26 am: | |
Never mind! Got it already... |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 155
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 5:41 am: | |
Hi Kens,
Whilst you pair have been languishing in your beds til as late as 2am,enterprising Scottish people have been busy solving Midshipman 1573858944. Another 10 minutes squandered.
NEXT,
Richard. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 156
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 6:29 am: | |
Thanks Tpa Ken for today's Cleopatra 1362914560.
Attached is today's solution. My grandson solved it and he's only two. Ha!
Richard. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 29
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:28 am: | |
Richard, I have to say I'm duly impressed with your Midshipman solution. I must admit my strategy is to uncover the face down cards in the tableau as soon as possible, and obviously that strategy didn't work here. Good job! Ken |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 157
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:36 am: | |
Hi Ken B,
Methinks your daddy was winding you up by saying he'd solved Cleopatra 155428353. My best score has been 48. My grandson could only get 47. He wants me to ask you how your daddy gained access to the following key cards.
7 spades......... position in pack 7th and 8th. 9 spades.........22nd and 23rd.
6 hearts..........11th and 14th. 10 hearts.........12th. We couldn't get a free column intil there was just 23 cards left. We think your daddy is having a laugh.
Richard. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 158
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 8:48 am: | |
Hello Ken M,
Glad you learned something. It never pays to still religiously to one strategy. When it fails, as it invariably does, you just have to look for other avenues of attack. Have a few tries at "Cone", and then try again after you've read my game strategy for it, posted 18th Nov. This clearly demonstrates what I'm saying about tactics.
Any more nasties for me?
Richard. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 159
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 10:32 am: | |
Hello again, Ken Millar from Tampa Florida.
I just uploaded my score for Forwards and Backwards and saw your name at the opposite end of the league from mine. Would it be inappropriate to ask you what game number you used to win it? Am I being too forward with Forwards?
Richard. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 30
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 6:50 pm: | |
Richard, Try #2147483647. Ken |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 160
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 3:25 am: | |
Hi Ken M,
Thanks but no thanks. I'll see if I can find another number for my six Not Won's. I was looking yesterday at some of the top scores and a certain name is the very top of quite a few. I think that there should be one less letter in Norway. The R seems totally superfluous, and without proof to the contrary, I'll not be changing my opinion. The assault on Forwards and Backwards goes on. Onward and upwardm til death us do part.
Richard. |
Ken Blackwell (Blackie9)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Blackie9
Post Number: 134
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 8:24 am: | |
No luck on my unwinnable game. What name are you doubting the ststs? Im at the top of about 30 games. Was just wondering.
Ken
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 161
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 - 9:54 am: | |
Hi Ken ,
Not you mate, I'm not that diplomatic, or underhand. There was a massive clue in the country. Treat it as another puzzle and get it solved. The answer is a four letter word.
Richard.
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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 31
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 1:23 am: | |
Richard, Have your grandson check out Corona #814362049. I'm sure he can knock it out before breakfast, but the highest score I can get is 50. Ken |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 169
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 5:31 am: | |
Hi Ken,
Corona #814362049 !!! If we were not to have breakfast before solving this, I think we'd starve to death. You've done well to get 50. My best so far is 47 but I don't anticipate improving on that by much. The early demise of both fours of clubs, 7 and 8 in the waste, makes this unwinnable, particularly as you don't get the opportunity to use spaces to your own advantage. The auto-fill just just scuppers it.
If you keep coming up with numbers like this I may yet have to invest in a granchild (non sexist, see?). Do you think I should put an advert in "The Times", or do you think "The Beano" or "The Dandy" would be more appropriate?
Richard.
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 170
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 11:38 am: | |
Back again Ken, Corona #814362049 has now reached the dizzy heights of 58. (Couldn't have you coming out on top, could we?) Ha!
Richard |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 171
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 1:02 pm: | |
Dear Son,
Corona 814362049 is now history. Tucking into a hearty breakfast as I type. Sorry I took so long. No need to advertise for help.
Luv,
Dad.
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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 32
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 10:44 pm: | |
Richard, Persistence is thy middle name. Well done, old chap! Ken |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 609
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 2:31 pm: | |
Why should I be having all the fun? Try Cleopatra #739148992. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1851
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:30 pm: | |
I can score 28 but can't see any way to improve on that (yet). How far can you get? |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 610
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:46 pm: | |
That's more than me. We might have to call in the big guns. Ken B. is the Cleopatra expert. Are you listening, Ken??? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1852
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 4:11 pm: | |
The problem with this number is that we start off with two 4's of spades in the tableau, but the 5's are at 7 and 8 in the waste, so we have two dead columns from the outset. There are also duplicate cards in the tableau which just make matters worse. I'm sure it's impossible. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 580
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 6:49 pm: | |
Did you guys fall on your Asps. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1853
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 4:21 am: | |
Mike, Have you got a snake, rattling role? You may think venom about to go on holiday (asp er usual) that I'll be too busy to reply. Poor Cleo, a servant caesar lying there and declares that she's adder chips.
So has this little number. Can't get past 29.
Here is an excellent word play that I came across recently :- "Here's champagne for our real friends And real pain for our sham friends."
That's your quota until the wanderer returns.
Try not to fight.
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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 581
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 4:29 pm: | |
You might not get this. But. Have a good holiday.
Be kind to American tourists if you meet any. Remember. We are a fairly new little country. And don't know much about the world. Be safe. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 646
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 2:39 am: | |
Richard, Work your magic on Cleopatra #333210753.
(BTW, take pity on us POOR people who have dial-up. It takes forever for those screen captures to load.) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1929
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 6:34 am: | |
Sorry Ken, didn't realise Iowa was a third world country. I have a vague memory of dial-up. It used to make me cuss a little. (A little more than usual). Will try extreme crops in future if I've to resort to screenshots. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 611
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 4:25 pm: | |
What's Dial-Up. I would think it would be easier just to send a message by carrier pidgeon. Perhaps a tin can and a string. Maybe they will bring back the pony express. Sorry Ken it's been a bad day. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1930
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 5:04 pm: | |
Yes Ken, Mike had a bad day. He went to a Spelling B. He got a D. Then he stuck it in pigeon.
Try this Cleopatra. It's got me beaten so far. 739148992. My best score is 27.
I was careful to check my spelling. Watch you don't slip up Ken. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 647
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 5:20 pm: | |
Mike (and Richard), Like I tell EVERYBODY buying a new computer (like I did) is a one-time expense, but DSL is 4 times more expensive than dial-up and it is a monthly expense (plus I don't have a woman supporting me like you guys!) RM, since I'm still working on the # I posted (since I know now it can be won), I don't think I'll be much help, but I'll give it a go. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 612
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 5:30 pm: | |
Don't start Richard. Like I said it's been a bad day. I'll spell pigeon with a F if I want to. So there. It hasn't been that bad a day. The starter at the golf course made me mad. I got there early 4:45am to be first out. And he put me in a group with a real idiot and behind a bunch of twits who took forever to play. Four and one half hours for no reason. Ok it's not a lot to get upset about but I was angry. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1931
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 5:40 pm: | |
You can spell pheasant with an F if you want Mike, but not pigeon, please. Pretty please! You should invest in a catapult and fire things at the guys in front. Silent but deadly. When I was a very much younger I used this tactic to get shot of people who were fishing where I wanted to be. Buy a permit? How ridiculous!
Ken, I told you that Batsford #1 was driving me nuts. I've not won it. I've given up on it for the time being as I just seem to be repeating all the same moves |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 648
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 5:49 pm: | |
I was about to post something quite insulting since I won Cleopatra #793148992 in 4 minutes. Until I realized that you posted #739148992. FYI--I also worship DOG!! |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 613
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 6:03 pm: | |
Pfigeon. That's the old
English spelling I think. It's in the Magna Carta. Or the Canterberry Tales. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 614
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 6:57 pm: | |
Or is that ffigeon |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1932
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 2:43 am: | |
Mike, there is not one F in pigeon, Passenger Pigeon that is. They're extinct.
Ken, I always copy and paste game numbers these days. It's too easy to do a typo otherwise. When you still have a partially complete game in front of you, you can hit "select game" and get your copy from there. You can do the same in the stats. It's very frustrating when you play the wrong game number. We've all done it. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 615
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
So they are not carring passengers anymore. Neither is TWA. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 616
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 12:30 pm: | |
How the heck would you solve #739148992. I will have to try #793148992 to see if I can do that one. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 617
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 12:42 pm: | |
793148992 fell into place very nicely. Ken was right. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1933
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 12:42 pm: | |
I just googled "TWA passengers", and it queried if I meant "TWO passengers". Excellent stuff. You may not have heard of the apathetic Scottish pigeon..... thistle doo.
The poor old Passenger Pigeon was once numbered in billions in America. Incredible how they could be made extinct. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 649
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 2:57 pm: | |
We thought they were Scottish....... |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1934
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 3:49 pm: | |
Yeah, like the Bison. It's Scottish too. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 650
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 6:55 pm: | |
That's right, Richard. I wouldn't try to buffalo you! |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 653
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 10:57 pm: | |
Here KenB has 319 wins w/o a loss and I'm stuck with ANOTHER seemingly impossible one. Try #1280965632. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1944
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 3:36 am: | |
You'd need to be highly selective to reach a total like that KM. You opened another one with obvious duplicates in the tableau. Just look at the kings! Are you mad? Don't answer that. Anyone who cycles 60k FOR PLEASURE definitely qualifies in that department as far as I'm concerned. #1280965632 is worse that the last one. You should get a medal just for getting all the aces out.
PS. I'm only jealous about the 60k. I just wish I'd that amount of energy. |
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