Subject: Never won winnables!
Date: Thu Oct 13 20:16:45 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:You da man!
Date: Fri Oct 14 03:17:11 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:BRAVO, ix!! ... I tried twice and gave up!
Date: Fri Oct 14 12:19:47 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Gave it 3 tries just now. Got tantalizingly close (I think) to breaking it open, but didn't. Think I was on the right track, but don't have more time to devote to it.
Date: Wed Oct 19 10:18:11 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:Another "never-won" game bites the dust!
Congratulations! You Win ..... Game # 7x4 26245/10, Game stats: 27/1/3.70%!
Date: Thu Oct 20 00:04:51 2016
User: Punster
Message:Nice going Tony....and during the WWC I'm assuming ?
Date: Thu Oct 20 00:50:16 2016
User: ix
Message:very nice!
Date: Thu Oct 20 05:04:59 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:Yes, Pun, it was during the WWC. I had a far more difficult game later on, 7x4, 12768/10, that is now 1/2. I assume that these 7x4 level 10 games only get large numbers of plays due to being played in tournaments!?
AND, thanks ix!
Date: Wed Oct 26 14:36:10 2016
User: ix
Message:6x5 winnable
Game #: 7789
Game stats: 18/0/0.00%
Difficulty: 5
Date: Wed Oct 26 14:40:43 2016
User: ix
Message:my very next game
Game #: 13494
Game stats: 12/0/0.00%
Difficulty: 5
Date: Fri Nov 4 08:43:54 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:I think this is my most difficult w7x4 game ever! I lost track of the number of tries, but possibly >25 (with cards, AND notes). But at least my current streak of 95 is still in tact! It took me 66 moves, but it felt like 666 (I'm not laughing):
Congratulations! You Win
Game #: 7x4 15614
Game stats: 2/1/50.00%
Difficulty: 10
Elapsed: 4:46
Streak: 95
Today: 1
Current position: 1 view, (You're in first place!)
Date: Thu Nov 10 17:26:37 2016
User: bio2935c
Message:Game #: 6x5 7789
Game stats: 20/1/5.00%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 7:34
2nd try, and yes it definitely does help to know it is winnable
Date: Fri Nov 18 08:16:25 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:Although this one had never been played, it is VERY difficult, imo!
Congratulations! You Win
Game #: 6x5 5837
Game stats: 1/1/100.00%
Difficulty: 8
Date: Sat Nov 19 21:47:29 2016
User: Klepp
Message:4142-5
11x0
Date: Sun Nov 20 00:08:27 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:Congratulations!! Your 11x0 game is now:
4142 /5,... 79,... 1,... 1.27%!!!
Date: Wed Nov 30 01:47:25 2016
User: Patti_Scialfa
Message:11x1-7 #10455
Game stats:
3/0/0.00%
Date: Wed Nov 30 04:56:11 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:This is barely worth mentioning:
Congratulations! You Win
Game #: w11x1 10878
Game stats: 3/1/33.33%
Difficulty: 8
Date: Wed Nov 30 11:20:17 2016
User: Patti_Scialfa
Message:All right, here's a good one:
W11x1 #24052-6
Game stats: 12/0/0.00%
Date: Wed Nov 30 11:44:57 2016
User: Goosey_Goosey_Gander
Message:Here's a good one. 4x10winnable, level 5, #13663. Now 1/10 after I got it in 12:08. (I have not used cards or any aids or notes since March, only my feeble brain. I doubt if I will ever catch you without using cards, TT, but I am a better player for having to plan farther ahead before making a move. )
Date: Thu Dec 1 03:44:34 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:Well done GGG! Probably you are younger than me, and still capable of "planning farther ahead before making a move"! Certainly not using cards makes you much faster than me, and, for that reason, is probably more fun for you! At 77, I am definitely going down hill, but I'm very glad to still be here!
Date: Fri Dec 2 10:44:22 2016
User: Goosey_Goosey_Gander
Message:Darn. Just lost a streak of 25 in 9x2winnable. Game was level 7, # 28959. 10 plays, never won.
Date: Wed Dec 7 08:26:41 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:I didn't think this one was all THAT difficult!
Game #:.......... 10x1 331
Game stats:... 12/1/8.33%
Difficulty:........ 10
Date: Wed Dec 14 17:59:08 2016
User: Patti_Scialfa
Message:This is as tough as it is intimidating to look at:
W9x2: 25192-7
Game stats: 1/0/0.00%
Date: Fri Jan 20 15:13:27 2017
User: ix
Message:i think even a top player might have his work cut out for him on this one
W6x5 1911-5 now 25/0, a few plays are mine
as a 6x6 its 16/1 and has even defeated someone as a 6x7 (2 wins of 3 plays)
i had won a previously unwon winnable, now 10/1 on my way to hitting this one, so i kind of have a chip on my shoulder that i should be treated so cruelly. please someone blacken its eye.
Link: http://freecell.net/f/c/view_one_game.html?;1911,5,6x5
Date: Sat Jan 21 18:07:08 2017
User: ix
Message:wow, thanks, hope you didn't have to leave the house for fava beans and chianti.
Date: Sat Jan 21 18:52:36 2017
User: deadwing
Message:when I hit the link I get 5/49
Date: Sat Jan 21 19:12:33 2017
User: ix
Message:yeah, there's either 5 really good players or 1 merciless one, it was 5/48 last i looked
Date: Sat Jan 21 20:02:23 2017
User: Kaos
Message:"This is as tough as it is intimidating to look at:
W9x2: 25192-7
Game stats: 1/0/0.00% "
Now:
Game #: 9x2 25192
Game stats: 6/1/16.67%
Difficulty: 7
Elapsed: 2:45
Date: Wed Feb 15 12:41:00 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Looks like you may have been the victim of Denny's infamous "switcheroo" scheme:
2/15
12:23 am
11x1 9757-6
Streak
4:09
Lost
2/15
12:14 am
11x1 28369-6
Winnable
1:15
Won
I.e., it shows up as "streak" play.
Date: Wed Feb 15 13:10:50 2017
User: ix
Message:it shows as streak on replays, the first time i hit it shows as winnable
2/13 10:05 pm 11x1 9757-6 Winnable 8:49 Lost
Date: Wed Feb 15 13:34:54 2017
User: ix
Message:(i used custom to select it on 2/15)
Date: Wed Feb 15 13:36:43 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ah. OK....
Date: Wed Feb 15 19:06:30 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Now 1/34.
Date: Wed Feb 15 23:40:15 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:I can give you a weak, but important hint if you desire to pursue it. It may or may not be something you've already figured out.
Date: Fri Feb 17 22:07:35 2017
User: ix
Message:yeah, i'll take a hint!
Date: Sun Feb 19 02:10:19 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh, man, ix! Just now saw this. Earlier saw that at least 3 others had won it, and had assumed one of them was you, so didn't give it any more thought. It's been over 3 days, but I'll try to look back at and remember how I did it. Sorry.
(Well, from memory, I believe I was going to say something like "Avoid the pitfall(s) of the obvious opening(s). And there is, after clearing an extra column, yet another 'bottleneck' which must be traversed." I know that's very vague, but the first part of that is key, as I recall. I don't like to make hints overly specific in case others are trying to work through it, too.) With that said, I won't go back and look at it again for another day or two, if you still need help. I'd call it one of those that in the rear-view mirror, doesn't look 0/32 hard; maybe 3 or 4 of 32 hard, which is close to where it had gotten last time I looked a couple of days ago (something like 4/42??).
Date: Sun Feb 19 11:29:02 2017
User: ix
Message:i ran up most of the losses, i think it was 0/12 when i hit it. i figured others wouldn't have as much trouble with it, sometimes i just can't see how to get a game, maybe i'm in a slump, but this one eludes me.
Date: Sun Feb 19 15:22:14 2017
User: ix
Message:last attempt i sailed right through it, i don't know what my problem was
Date: Fri Feb 24 13:37:47 2017
User: Serphina
Message:Perhaps there should be a unwinnable section.
I'd nominate this one.
7x4 8253-6 Winnable
Date: Fri Feb 24 14:55:08 2017
User: ix
Message:gave it 3 tries, looks tough
Game: 7x4 8253-6
Plays: 20
Wins: 0
Percentage: 0.00
Date: Mon Jul 17 13:48:06 2017
User: TitanicTony
Message:After I crashed my w4x10 streak, I came across this one:
Game: .... 4x10 13612-5,
Plays: ...... 9,
Wins: ....... 0.
Would anyone like to try it???
Date: Sun Aug 6 10:50:23 2017
User: Klepp
Message:21141, 10X1
Date: Sun Aug 6 13:23:50 2017
User: TitanicTony
Message:Presumably you meant: 21141, 10X1, LEVEL 10, which is now 1/11!??
Date: Tue Aug 8 03:53:17 2017
User: Klepp
Message:4755, 10X1
Date: Tue Aug 8 18:03:49 2017
User: Klepp
Message:24725, 10X1
Date: Wed Aug 9 04:44:29 2017
User: Klepp
Message:3313, 10X1-10
Date: Wed Aug 9 04:57:18 2017
User: Klepp
Message:I apologize if I'm misusing this thread by posting games that *were* winnable vice games that *are* winnable (and yet unbeaten). I'll desist if that be so, and post solely something winnable to which I lose (and disgustingly refuse to replay due to stung pride by an avoidable loss).
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