Windows Mobile Solitaire
Sweet baby cheeses. I would have thought that devising theoretically-unsolvable Solitaire puzzles would be difficult, a problem beyond Microsoft’s grasp. But I have now played 1.232 trillion games of Solitaire on my mobile phone, and have yet to win a single one. Shenanigans!
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November 16th, 2007 at 21h39
[...] beat my Windows Mobile Solitaire for the first time today. I scored 3696 points and solved the puzzle in 228 [...]
December 12th, 2007 at 08h19
Yeah what is up with WM5 solitaire?!? It’s got to be the hardest game of solitaire ever…. I win about probably…. 1 out of every 20 or 30 hands dealt… but the score rarely resets to 0 and nor does the time.. where do we find the rules for this bizarre game?!
December 12th, 2007 at 11h30
There can be only one Dave here.
I do hereby declare myself… RUFIO for the remainder of the thread.
That is all.
December 12th, 2007 at 11h45
I’ve been trying to figure out the scoring rules. I’ve won about five or six games thus far. I’ve got this:
The line’s formula is -15.54 * (time in seconds) + 7218 … almost. I expect it’s more complex than that, but that is suggestively linear.
Yesterday, I got to a point where I just needed to add one more king to a pile to win the game. I set the phone down and went to lunch. When I got back, 3000 seconds had elapsed and the score had gone to zero. I stacked the king, and got 115 points for the move. So we can be pretty sure that your score will never be less than zero. I think 115 might be the lowest score one can get and still win — unless it would have been less than 115 points if, say, 6000 seconds had gone by.
If you have time/score pairs, post them here and we can add more sample points.
December 12th, 2007 at 12h44
I just realized that one of my best friends works at MS, in the Windows Mobile division and he’s one of the heads of marketing.. I’m going to ask him tonight if he can send me the rules
July 31st, 2008 at 13h32
Wow! You guys must be REALLY terrible at Solitaire. I play it on my T-mobile Wing which runs WM6. I win almost every game I play. And when I don’t I realize that there was a play staring me in the face for a while that I didn’t see and thus my mistake.
However today for the first time, I started an UNPLAYABLE game.
c=club, d=diamond, s=spade, h=heart
r=red, b=black
Jcb 7sb 10cb 5dr 2sb 2dr Jsb
So no move there. I’m using 3 cards dealt.
I’m dealt the following top cards for each 3 dealt.
7cb
Qdr
Kdr
3sb
4dr
3hr
8sb
Qhr
That’s it! Not a single move can be made!!! Awesome
And I had been curious if this was a possibility. You’d think there could be an algorithm which would at least prevent an unplayable game (notice I didn’t say unwinnable). That shouldn’t be too tough. 7 cards stack and 8 cards dealt to run all the possibilities and find one move isn’t possible. – Lame!
September 30th, 2008 at 19h47
Ran across this post looking for Solitaire scores. I kept a log on scores over 3000 but too many entries, raised to 4000 and then minimum for the log is 4500. Lost the file and had to start over. Here are some time, score and dates in my log..
171 4731 030608
178 4591 031208
171 4721 040508
171 4741 041408
167 4838 041808
178 4571 042308
178 4591 042808
157 5090 043008
143 5557 043008
149 5357 050308
173 4676 050308
163 4938 050908
176 4616 051008
177 4596 051708
164 4893 051708
156 5150 051908
151 5290 051908
154 5200 052008
164 4918 052208
163 4938 052308
175 4641 052508
180 4574 052508
170 4766 060508
159 5035 060608
168 4895 061008
173 4711 070708
164 4913 071208
152 5265 071508
177 4601 071608
180 4554 071708
173 4701 071908
184 4444 072008
171 4721 080508
170 4781 080608
165 4913 082608
140 5632 092808
161 5008 092908