Thanks for the numbers. The number for Buffett worked like a charm but the number for Tam O' Shanter not so much. I dispute the characterization that it is all luck. I have played it numerous times and a ten is always blocking a card to win the game.
The same applies to Kingdom. I'd rate it as skill/luck balanced. The skill part is figuring out that you can manipulate the stock and pretty much choose what goes into the eight tableau piles. Undo and then play my solution and you'll see that I rarely bury a low denomination card in the waste. The secret is to keep a playable move in reserve. Let's say a 3D turns up on the waste pile. Undo one card until the 3D will be the next card dealt. Now use a move you've refused to make earlier from a tableau pile to a foundation and lo and behold your 3D will be automatically dealt to the space it vacated.
KINGDOM .................2 Decks. Very Hard (<1%). Mostly Luck. skill/luck balanced
Ken Blackwell put in a brief appearance when this new forum was implemented. He wasn't happy about the new methods we were obliged to develop re uploading and using solution. He was happy when I gave him a copy of his own solution as ihad lost his one. He vanished again soon afterwards.
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Buffett
1 Deck. Very Hard (1%). Mostly Luck.
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Thanks for the numbers. The number for Buffett worked like a charm but the number for Tam O' Shanter not so much. I dispute the characterization that it is all luck. I have played it numerous times and a ten is always blocking a card to win the game.
Agreed that it should be at worst "Mainly luck". Will post a partial.
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The same applies to Kingdom. I'd rate it as skill/luck balanced. The skill part is figuring out that you can manipulate the stock and pretty much choose what goes into the eight tableau piles. Undo and then play my solution and you'll see that I rarely bury a low denomination card in the waste. The secret is to keep a playable move in reserve. Let's say a 3D turns up on the waste pile. Undo one card until the 3D will be the next card dealt. Now use a move you've refused to make earlier from a tableau pile to a foundation and lo and behold your 3D will be automatically dealt to the space it vacated.
KINGDOM .................2 Decks. Very Hard (<1%).
Mostly Luck. skill/luck balanced#1199370752
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Are you leaving Picture Patience to the probably greatest PGS solve by Ken Blackwell ?
ONE234
1 Deck. Very Hard (<1%). Mostly Luck.
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I hate to say it but I'm going to need the full solution for Tam O'Shanter.
Picture Patience
2 Decks. Very Hard (1%). 🤣 Mostly Luck.
Ken Blackwell put in a brief appearance when this new forum was implemented. He wasn't happy about the new methods we were obliged to develop re uploading and using solution. He was happy when I gave him a copy of his own solution as ihad lost his one. He vanished again soon afterwards.
10C up to free the 7S and then job done.