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2 Decks. Very Hard (<1%). Skill/Luck balanced
I decided to play from #1000 onwards as I'd probably played quite a lot of the lower ones previously. No stats etc for it on this PC.
Anyway, #1021 gave me the impression it could be won and after a few replays I proved that it was. I would be interested to learn how anyone of you got on with it. Take care ..... worrying back is not possible.
Partial and full solution will be posted a few days from now.
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If memory serves me correctly (and at my age that is a big IF) I remember that #1 and #2 were winnable and we thought that the winning percentage was way out of whack until we couldn’t find another win number! Lol. Let me try your number…
I thought I'd/we'd played it before but have no recollection of any winners, although our track record of giving up gracefully without bagging any would be totally out of character. 😂
Went looking and found the following.
Sixteen years ago !!! There are other winners in that thread too if you're interested Ken. Personally I prefer looking for new ones.
My best score is 55. Did you know that I’m partial to partials?
Whole partials or partial partials Ken? 😁 I'll part with one part one.
55 is a decent score btw.
Parting with one part two too. 😁
Even from part partial part one not obvious how one once won it. 😊
Houston, we have a problem! If you recall, I no longer have a laptop, so I play all the games on my iPad and unless Thomas are Gregg can inform us otherwise, I don’t see where you can upload a solution to the iPad version.
never mind, I just ordered a $200 computer with the express purpose of only playing PGS on it! Lol
Try that Ken. In PGS, click on dropdown menu (top lhs) and select Open game. The link gets pasted into the long box at the foot.
I’ve known how to do that for years but in an iPad, I don’t think you have that option. Maybe Gregg Tom can weigh in your future reference?
I know nothing about iPads Ken. I've had some experience of iPatches though.🧐
Richard, I bought a brand new laptop just so I could try your partial and it was well worth it since I got your first partial easily!
First of many then I hope. 😊 (Solutions, not laptops). 😁
Alas, the iPad version does not have that option, and due to Apple policy, it probably won't. (We submitted a version that would allow us to share statistics and Apple rejected that as providing unnecessary access to data files. 😡)
FYI, Gregg, Play on the iPad is not my favorite thing to do. I don’t know whether it’s because my iPad is old or because I have fat fingers, but it would take three or four times for the cards to move and it was so annoying. Now that I bought a laptop, it’s so much nicer just using my mouse.
>FYI, Gregg, Play on the iPad is not my favorite thing to do. I don’t know whether it’s because my iPad is old or because I have fat fingers, but it would take three or four times for the cards to move and it was so annoying. Now that I bought a laptop, it’s so much nicer just using my mouse.
Play on an iPad should be fairly responsive, and a touch should never be ignored, so something is clearly wrong. Even older iPads may animate slightly slower, but they never (in testing) require multiple touches to move a card. If your iPad is very dirty, or old enough that the touch capability of the screen is failing, that could cause problems (as would playing with gloves on 😉).
The only times I have ever seen something like this are on Pretty Good Solitaire Mini (the iPhone version) when I accidentally get extra fingers (or other exposed skin) onto the screen in such a way that the "multitouch" thinks that I am trying to resize the cards or something. I could not reproduce this on an iPad (with only a brief attempt), but perhaps you are holding the iPad in such a way that your fingers are slipping onto the screen and confusing the hardware.
I can't really tell without more information, so I can only say that it should not be happening and (the old QA cop out), "It doesn't happen here." 🤷♂️ I do appreciate the report, though.