FreeCell Solitaire -- A Winning Strategy
Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006
by Boris Sandberg
BVS Development Corporation
FreeCell Solitaire is an extremely addictive card game invented by Paul Alfille. It is fun and very skill-dependent. Nearly every game of FreeCell can be won with perfect play.
Only several deals of FreeCell Solitaire are known to be unsolvable. This makes FreeCell card game much more interesting and popular than solitaire variations like Klondike, where luck is a large factor in the game. With FreeCell, winning depends mostly on skill.
- Examine the tableau carefully before making any moves. It is very important to plan several moves ahead. The obvious moves are not always the best.
- Make it a priority to free up all the Aces, especially if they are deeply buried behind the higher cards. Move them to the home cells as early as possible.
- Try to keep as many free cells empty as possible. Be cautious! Once all free cells are filled, you have almost no space to maneuver. And your ability to maneuver is the key to this game. Make sure you have no alternative before placing any cards in the free cells.
- Try to create an empty tableau pile as soon as possible. Empty tableau piles are more important than free cells. Each empty tableau can be used to store an entire sequence instead of a single card. And it doubles the length of an ordered sequence of cards that can be moved from one tableau to another. (If the long sequence move involves both empty tableaus and free cells, it is often called supermove.)
- If it is possible, fill an empty tableau space with a long descending sequence that begins with a King.
- Do not to move cards to the home cells too quickly. You may need these cards later to maneuver lower cards of other suits.
About the Author
Boris Sandberg is a developer of the BVS Solitaire Collection -- a collection of about 400 different solitaire card games, including FreeCell Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Pyramid and Golf.
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