OT FreeCell game 11982

Is this the famous one that cannot be solved?

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gareth
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None

I have found the solution to the question, but not, it would seem, the solution to the puzzle ...

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gareth

I think you saved most of your face there, Gareth. But you might just have a little bit of egg left on one or two of your chins.

Reply to
Bobby Socks

There are eight unsolvable games apparently: 11,982; 146,692; 186,216;

455,889; 495,505; 512,118; 517,776 and 781,948, but they can be solved with five free cells rather than four.
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Chris Hogg

Having been presented with 11982 as a challenge by a friend, and tried for several days without success, I bethought me this morning to google for it and my gasted was never so flabbered by the number of Internet hits for that one game alone!

For those of us who are bellringers, I wonder if there might be some explanation in the mathematics of W.H.Thompson who, about 120 years ago, proved that a peal of Grandsire Triples could not be produced using common bobs alone, for it seems to me that the swapping of positions of cards might bear some similarity to the swapping of bells in the changes?

Reply to
gareth

Dunno about Thompson and bell-ringing, but this site claims to offer a programme for solving games automatically "FreeCell pro; a program with built-in solver"

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Not tried it though.

Reply to
Chris Hogg

Doesn't solve that one.

Used it for years now. Main problem is that there is no smartphone version.

Reply to
Oscar Edwards

As I said previously,

" ... but now it has degenerated to become a cesspit of the ignorant and gratuitously abusive lower classes .. "

QED, I think, in spades?

Reply to
gareth

Not only that, but the childish coward who is hiding behind a pseusdonym in order to shout out her abusive remarks has stalked me here from free.uk.radio-amateur

As I said, particularly in her case, "gratuitously abusive lower classes "

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gareth

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