| Author |
Message |
Ken Millar
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 5:24 am: | |
E, have you won this game? And, if so, what #? |
Ken Millar
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 9:45 am: | |
Paul, what about you? Have you won this one? If not, what's your best score? Mine's 117. |
Peg Mueller (Tzrnpeg)
Advanced Solitaire Player
Username: Tzrnpeg
Post Number: 56
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 9:48 am: | |
I'm not Paul but my highest score is 133. I've played the game 1873 times so far.
Peg |
Ken Millar
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 12:09 pm: | |
Whew, Peg, and I thought I was getting frustrated! |
Ken Millar
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 12:12 am: | |
Peg, what's the # you got 133 on? |
Peg Mueller (Tzrnpeg)
Advanced Solitaire Player
Username: Tzrnpeg
Post Number: 57
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 9:02 am: | |
Ken,
Game #206. Good luck!
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Ken Millar
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 11:19 am: | |
Well, Peg, I got it up to 140, at least. This game is frustrating, isn't it? Ken |
Audrey G Schnell (Paxinc)
Advanced Solitaire Player
Username: Paxinc
Post Number: 94
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 3:43 pm: | |
Good grief, guys. Your totals amaze me; I'm too
chicken to count. Currently, I'm in the toils of the General's Patience. That thing at the end, when the residue is shuffled, is a real killer.
Bye. Audrey |
Ken Millar
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 10:29 am: | |
Peg, I've got my score on game #206 up to 164. The key to winning seems to be to get out the 4 of hearts at the beginning of the game, and I can't seem to do it (yet!) Ken |
Esme Weatherwax
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:34 pm: | |
The highest score I got is 143 (game #1074740864) and twice I got 133 (#1088092800 and #1240845184, Crossroads drives me crazy, I played 697 games until now and still start a new game each evening I get home...
Does someone know a game which can be won? |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 217
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:54 pm: | |
Hi Esme
game 429277857 can be won and is very difficult
remember you can bring cards back from the foundations and need to do this a lot
anonymous has put the moves in the forum somewhere else and I got the file from him/her but if still stuck I will give you the moves
regards Paul |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 218
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - 12:11 pm: | |
hi
at last i have written all the moves over 500 of them if anyone would like them as 7 scanned pages
regards Paul |
Esme Weatherwax
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 1:45 pm: | |
Hi Paul!
Could you please email them to me? -> ruen@gmx.at
I tried it quite a few times and reached the score 147, which is the highest of all games for me but unfortunately far from winning...
Thanks in advance
Esme |
karen nicholls
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 218.101.103.125
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 11:21 pm: | |
hello paul ,could you email the moves to me too? Vayda@clear.net.nz thank you
(Message approved by admin) |
Gail L. Johnson (Gljbask)
Solitaire Player
Username: Gljbask
Post Number: 11
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 9:02 am: | |
Hello Paul, could you e-mail the moves to me for Crossroads? gailjohnson@adelphia.net.
Thaks, Gail |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 9
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 6:45 pm: | |
Crossroads game 393240705 is winnable but I didn't save it. Will try to replay it.
Richard. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 10
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 - 7:00 am: | |
CROSSROADS - Replayed game 393240705 and eventually got it out for the 2nd time. Total Crossroads games played 6035 and just the one winner. Uploading solution.
Richard. |
Joan Costello (Jodoco)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Jodoco
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:32 am: | |
I've played 1559 games of Crossroads and have not been able to conquer it, even using the game numbers above. The highest I've been able to score is 175 on game number 924268224. Is this one winnable? The hang-up seems to be the clubs. Can't get enough of them out...
I guess I'll give the numbers you folks furnished another whirl...sigh.... |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 404
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:37 am: | |
Hi
this is my worked solution for game 429277857
hope this helps
regards Paul
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Joan Costello (Jodoco)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Jodoco
Post Number: 2
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:03 am: | |
Thank you for your quick response and solution Paul. I was ready to concede defeat yesterday, but think I will give it a couple more shots before giving in and downloading.
Again, thanks.
Joan |
Larry Dale (Lars)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Lars
Post Number: 33
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 7:51 am: | |
Joan,
Would you happened to have saved your game # 924268224 with the score of 175 ? I have not been able to approach that total. If so, could you post your partial solution ?
Thanks,
Larry |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1509
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 10:08 am: | |
I can't get past 112 with 924268224 yet Larry. 175 is impressive. The absence of a 4C near the end is what's stopping my score from being a fair bit higher. Will plod on. |
Joan Costello (Jodoco)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Jodoco
Post Number: 3
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 11:06 am: | |
Larry, Richard, I've not saved it. Don't know how. If someone will explain I will be happy to give it another shot to record it. So far I've racked up 1633 games with no wins. The lowest scores I've gotten on Crossroads 924268224 was 107 and 111. Two other Crossroad games that I achieved 122 and 123 respectively on were 108329033 and 2039382015. Maybe someone can bring them home...I sure can't. <g> |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1510
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 11:25 am: | |
Hi Joan, To save a game of Crossroads you need to have Crssroads open on your screen. Look up to near the top left of your screen and click where it says "Game". Then click "Save as" in the drop down menu that appears.
Once saved you can upload it with the "upload attachment" button just underneth this message. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1511
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
108329033 looks winnable. Reached 153 with my only attempt |
Joan Costello (Jodoco)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Jodoco
Post Number: 4
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 5:31 pm: | |
I've done something wrong as I only scored 173 instead of 175 this time. Don't have any more time to play with it at the moment. Have failed miserably at trying to upload. I've saved the game. Its Crossroads_924268224.pgs. When I try to upload Windows tells me it is not a valid name. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I have Crossroads open on my desktop as well as the Forum |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1514
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 6:14 pm: | |
I have to assume you saved the game exactly as I mentioned in my post at 11:25. If this is so, you can check that it's OK. With Crossroads open on your screen, click on "Game" at top left of the screen and then "Open game" in the drop down menu. It should run as it's still within P.G.S.
If not, you'll have to replay it and save it again.
To upload it, you don't even need to have PGS open. Click on the Upload Attachment button (below) and then on "Browse".
See if that works first. If not, we'll try another route. |
Joan Costello (Jodoco)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Jodoco
Post Number: 5
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 9:25 pm: | |
Yes, I can access the saved game. It opens with the last cards played.
When I try to upload Crossroads_924268224.pgs it comes up as "File Not Found"
If I type in the file name as above and "browse" it goes directly to my documents and the file isn't there. I've gone into C/Program files and Goodsol, and the file that comes up has an .exe. Where does saving it, put it? Would an .exe extension be right?
I'm going to call it quits for tonight. I'll look for your response in the a.m. and most sincerely thank you for all your help.
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1516
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 4:19 am: | |
Joan, I had the most dreadful trouble when I got Vista. Perhaps you're running that too. No matter. I resolved the problem like so.
I went back into PGS and clicked "open game" and saw the game I wanted. I then renamed it. Afer the game number I inserted YEUK so that it would be easier to locate. Then I closed PGS and did a system search, asking windows to find YEUK. What it found was just a shortcut to it. I highlighted it and right clicked and asked it to open the file location. It did that but it was still only a "shortcut". I right clicked on this one and it came up with a dialogue box telling me that windows was searching for it. When it eventually found it, I clicked on "fix", and it opened the folder where it was contained. I then dragged and dropped it into "documents" where it was easy to find for uploading into the forum.
The trouble is that those helpful people at microsoft seem to delight in moving stuff around and hiding it and barring access to it. It's never in the same place twice. What worked in previous systems does not work on other ones. Those gentlemen have been compared to haemorroids by at least one Scottish person.
Try the rename route and let me know what spanners it tries to throw in the works. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 454
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 6:16 am: | |
Joan, All I can offer is encouragement. I, too, have Vista, and Richard's right: It's a bitch! Even with Richard's help, it took me a long time to figure it out (and I was an expert in XP), but play around with it, and eventually you'll figure it out! Ken |
Joan Costello (Jodoco)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Jodoco
Post Number: 6
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 4:50 pm: | |
Richard, Ken, thank you both for the encouragement. I've been off line for a day...my ISP is almost as reliable as Microsoft. Richard I've printed your suggestions and will proceed hopefully to YEUK. <g> I'll post results as soon as I conquer.
Meantime if you're playing the game, it starts off good, gets to a mediocre middle, and in the end game you have to take away and put back a lot in order to get a high score. The low clubs seem to be the hang-up and I haven't found any way to bring them out early in the game. I will report back soon, I hope. |
Larry Dale (Lars)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Lars
Post Number: 34
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 8:10 am: | |
Joan
The maximum I could get with # 108329033 was a score of 173 and waste of 19. If you are still able to post your partial solution to # 924268224 I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Larry |
Larry Dale (Lars)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Lars
Post Number: 35
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 6:11 am: | |
I finally was able to solve # 108329033. Hint: You can create openings in the tableau by NOT playing the aces to the foundations and moving sequences headed by Kings of the opposite color to the aces. Once the aces are played to the foundations, they can not be moved back to the tableau. Will post my solution later if anyone is interested.
Larry |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 1714
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 6:15 am: | |
Well done Larry. That's a ploy I've used successfully in a few games. I've won it too now, and any time I'm feeling like a challenge I'll see if I can do it the orthodox way. |
Larry Dale (Lars)
Intermediate Solitaire Player
Username: Lars
Post Number: 39
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 6:54 am: | |
Crossroads # 924268224, first mentioned by Joan, is indeed winnable. Will post solution later if needed.
Larry |
aimee wilson (Aimeewilson123)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Aimeewilson123
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 - 6:44 am: | |
I cannot win crossroads even with winning numbers Argh!! I am down to 65 games and havent been able to knock won off for a couple weeks. Come on brain!! |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6758
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 - 9:37 am: | |
Crossroads is rated as "very hard" for good reason Aimee. As you have discovered, having a winnable number is no guarantee that you will win it. There is a lot of skill involved.
Two things. Firstly you should turn off the "autoplay" in the "options" tab. This will ensure that the software doesn't play an adverse card any time there is a choice of moves. Secondly, you should be aware that you can take cards back off of the foundations and put them in the tableau. You can often save decent cards from going into the waste using this ploy.
Also read Larry's post earlier on this page....."Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 6:11 am:"
Hope this helps. |
aimee wilson (Aimeewilson123)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Aimeewilson123
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 - 6:11 pm: | |
thanks so much for your tips.....Ill keep those in mind and try again. |
paul forsdick (Pondpaul)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Pondpaul
Post Number: 699
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 - 6:21 pm: | |
Hi Aimee
The moves for my win on this game is on this thread February 12th 2008 as an 11 page word document. |
aimee wilson (Aimeewilson123)
New Solitaire Player
Username: Aimeewilson123
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 - 7:36 pm: | |
well you all are quite a helpful group!! ive never posted before ....just played...i think im on to somethin! |
aimee wilson (Aimeewilson123)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Aimeewilson123
Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 - 8:14 pm: | |
well you all are quite a helpful group!! ive never posted before ....just played...i think im on to somethin! |
Ken Blackwell (Blackie9)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Blackie9
Post Number: 595
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 14, 2011 - 8:59 am: | |
Welcome Aimee! Its a good group. Ask away or just discuss.
Ken |
aimee wilson (Aimeewilson123)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Aimeewilson123
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 - 6:14 am: | |
Paul, at the risk of sounding ridiculous i looked at your posted solution for game 429277852 posted on feb 12, 08...i seem to have a different layout as I don't even see the cards ur speaking of in ur first few moves...am i missing something? |
aimee wilson (Aimeewilson123)
Junior Solitaire Player
Username: Aimeewilson123
Post Number: 9
Registered: 10-2010
| | Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 - 6:18 am: | |
oops never mind paul got it figured out on my crossroads question |
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