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Hi Seelhoff, pgsBP348, To prevent any misunderstanding ;): I fully recognize that the authoritative position of PGS in the field of solitaire games is absolutely unchallenged! ... It is actually the only solitaire software I have tried the last deca…
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Hi Jack, Why would you have offended anyone? Someone who is willing to take the time to write an honest, constructive contribution like yours should be thanked! ... I have lost count of the number of times that I have found the solution to my comput…
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👍️ I fully agree ;)
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😱 What!?!? 25%?!?! ... With king only in empty piles?!?!? A bow my head in respect, sir! ... In that case I am clearly using an incorrect approach ... ... eventually I will also try Forty Thieves, but I still need to build up a bit more courage befo…
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Richardscotland, do you play this game regularly? If so, could you give me an estimate of one in how many games you succeed? A very rough order-of-magnitude indication is more than enough, just so that I know what to expect if I want to continue unt…
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ah, yes, indeed ... it allows some more moves... Still it's diabolical, though ... I managed to loose one game after making only two moves :S ... ... a lot of fun to play regardless ... ;)
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ok, so I am not the only one that finds Ukrainian Solitaire very tough. I tried it a couple of times and don't think that I ever made it past 20 moves or so ... It sounds very much like the Ukrainians to play a game that can hardly be won ... or is …
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oh ... hey Rod ... once that the application runs with visual basic runtime also installed, the game can also be launched through this icon in the applications menu: http://www.goodsol.net/forum/vanilla/uploads/213/LMCV08ARJ1XR.png ... but I think…
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Hi Rod, Did you succeed? Just for the fun of it I tried to install PGS on my copy of ubuntu 18.04 and managed to get it working. I can see how you ran into issues, because it was really not as straightforward as one might hope. Here are the steps th…
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"Until I Googled it a minute ago I thought that Ubuntu was probably an African intestinal disease that is being spread by farty bandits." LOL! Sharp one that one 😂👍️
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oh gees ... "Forty Bastards" .... I didn't even notice my mistake until you pointed it out ... must have been a mental blend of Forty Bandits and Inglorious Bastards ... Just now I was right in time to correct the typo in "Farty Bandi…
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Rod, I have no answer for you, but I do have an opinion :O .... I'm so happy to hear that you using Ubuntu 18.04 (although 20.04 has passed) ... it's freakin' awesome. Creating a double-boot for playing solitaire however sounds clumsy: if you will w…
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Gregg Seelhoff: 1840 Germany->Michigan. That is the Germany connection that I was anticipating. If there would have been one "f" less my guess would have been the Netherlands ;) ... Impressive that you know so much about your lineage ..…
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Correction: Joe is not on Band of Gypsys ... I got it confused with Machine Gun ... oeioei, what a mistake. Still, it is one of the best records out there. Everything just comes together exactly right ... and to think that it was just thrown out the…
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Seelhoff ... with such a name may I conclude that you are from a similar part of Europe? (... addendum: oh, wait, you signed with Gregg, that sounds more Anglo-Saxon ;)) Transposition table! Super! Thank you for mentioning this! I will go and check …
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Yes indeed, I suppose Scorpion has its merits. I should give it another try. Strategy ... Travellers Clock ... two more games I don't know yet ... there's just so many :O I will check them out. Sorry, but please allow me to shortly get back to Josep…
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... So ... I see the name Forty Thieves pass by a couple of times in this thread, and so I go and check out the rules of this and similar layout games as described on goodsol pgshelp ... and ... to my surprise there is one among them that triggers m…
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:D ... I grew up in a less than 20 minute bike ride away from that place ... 👍️ ... still miss it ... I had to move away for my job :S
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haha ... You are tremendously overestimating my ambitions. At the university I had a colleague who was thinking about creating a chess engine to calculate the "best" next move, and already then I thought it would just not be worth the garg…
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hmmm.... there are some exchanges here that I think require insider information? Do you people know each other personally? Anyway, in the responces I read some names of games that I've never even heard about and will certainly go and check them out …
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Oohhh my ... poor Mike! It must be a day job cleaning up after the mess that Trump leaves behind :O The point you make about solvers for Freecell genre games is exactly the reason why I don't really like those type of games. After the initial deal …
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Thanks Goodsol, Richard & Butler for clarifying this to me! I see now that I should rely on https://www.goodsol.com/pgshelp/index.html for most accurate rules, rather than the "play" section or the politaire.com play&help sections …
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Dear Sir Richard of Scotland, Thanks for the reply! I think that perhaps I am starting to understand the source of confusion. You say that Carlton is dealt with all cards face up? My reference was the online game on goodsol (https://www.goodsol.com/…
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Richard, Butler, Thank you for taking the time to answer my question! It's greatly appreciated! @butler77: for extra confirmation, am I understanding correctly then that the difference between Milligan Harp and Carlton is appearance only, not actual…