Subject: Never won winnables!
Date: Tue Sep 7 14:55:24 2021
User: Klepp
Message:133347-5 8X2 first of 61...seemed not too difficult, actually...
Date: Tue Sep 7 15:52:28 2021
User: TitanicTony
Message:Presumably you meant: .... 8x2 13347-5!
Date: Tue Sep 7 16:57:29 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I don't get double-digit streaks very often in that variant.
Date: Tue Sep 7 16:58:19 2021
User: redberet
Message:I was referring to
9/6 12:31 8x2 18951-5 Streak 20:46 Won 3.8% 3709 2 53
9/4 16:45 8x2 4088-5 Streak 28:17 Won 2.3% 3709 1 43
which were back to back play and at the time it was 1/53. If you keep winning those, then ElGuapo might have to drop the payoff in the 36xx territory.
Date: Tue Sep 7 17:37:45 2021
User: Klepp
Message:4496-5 8X2 first of 38
Date: Tue Sep 7 21:20:16 2021
User: ix
Message:all in one day, that's impressive!
9/7 8x2 4496-5 Won 2.6% 3709 1 38
9/7 8x2 13347-5 Won 1.6% 3709 1 61
9/7 8x2 15846-5 Won 2.4% 3717 1 41
Date: Fri Sep 10 13:50:58 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I regularly avoid the very deepest ends of this electronic pool, though...e.g.: <7 columns, any nine-sum variants (masochistic stuff)...but I may graduate to them at some point...(this ten-sum has me hooked for now)...
Date: Fri Sep 10 15:58:18 2021
User: redberet
Message:If getting plopped in the middle of a cornfield maze or a house of mirrors is your thing, then 9 sum will surely satisfy that urge.
Date: Tue Sep 14 14:26:22 2021
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:Game #: 6x4 3412
Game stats: 64/1/1.56%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 3:03
Regrettably, one early mistake cost me on this deal; won on the second attempt. Definitely an interesting solution.
Date: Tue Sep 14 16:12:57 2021
User: Klepp
Message:8559-5 8X2...first of 91...
Date: Tue Sep 14 22:39:11 2021
User: Kaos
Message:Hey Klepp, extremely impressive 10-sum performances. Maybe you should try a Freakout tournament? Also, any bio hints about yourself: old, young; male, female; what’s the story with your nickname. And, with solving skills like you seem to have, why don’t you think you’re below Elo 2000?
Date: Wed Sep 15 15:29:41 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I'm too slow to do well on tournaments...Klepp's the surname my family gave me (Jason Scott)...just a SWM quinquagenarian Wisconsinite who loves coffee, crossword puzzles, the Milwaukee Brewers, studying ancient cultures, cosmology (amateur deep as I can go), eggplant parmigiana, tiramisu, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Stanley Kubrick film, just to name a few...as far as I know (as per Hop in ELO-2K thread) my ELO topped at 1999, but has since dipped to mid-high 19-hundreds...I suppose I'll be satisfied to reach 2K once, then try not to fret about it anymore, not letting it control my choice of variant...but I suppose I'll find out later.
Date: Thu Sep 16 00:27:44 2021
User: ix
Message:thanks for the condensed bio klepp (and thanks kaos for asking). i just replaced my dvd player and now have access to youtube on my telly, have been watching tons of startalk with neil degrasse, just learned that mercury is the planet closest to earth on average and about liquid water on io, both things i'm sure you knew. in addition to drinking pbr for keeping one's bodily fluids pure.
Date: Thu Sep 16 00:31:49 2021
User: ix
Message:oh, and i bet you know all about chaco canyon as well.
Date: Thu Sep 16 02:47:16 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Yes, thanks, Klepp. Good stuff. Not shockingly, our interests have a fair amount of overlap. But not the PBR.
Date: Fri Sep 17 07:52:15 2021
User: TitanicTony
Message:Always happy to win a difficult (w)4x10! ..... You Win. ..... Game #: 4x10 23444-8;
Game stats: 2/1/50.00%; ..... Streak: 33; ..... Moves: 83/207.
Date: Fri Sep 17 15:02:57 2021
User: JackStraw
Message:6x4
#31448
diff 5
100/0 0%
any freecell historians know which game has the most plays without a win ?
Date: Sat Sep 18 15:36:09 2021
User: d164280
Message:7x6 19577-12, now 1/1, played a lot of 7x6 lately, this was the toughest by far for me.
Date: Sat Sep 18 16:52:15 2021
User: cellmate
Message:
maybe one of these 2
7x4 24383-10
8x4 9216-12
Date: Sat Sep 18 17:54:28 2021
User: JackStraw
Message:6 x 4
diff 5
#31312
158 /1 0.63%
it's easy to come real close
but couldn't put it away
Date: Mon Sep 20 18:12:10 2021
User: Oded789
Message:Game #: 10x1 7047
Game stats: 14/1/7.14%
Difficulty: 12
Elapsed: 6:22
2nd try, sadly I couldn't manage it 15 minutes ago with a deadly tournament on the line.
Not that hard, actually.
Date: Mon Sep 20 19:33:00 2021
User: kangaroo
Message:Jackstraw, I remember a 7x3 game which looks easily winnable but has been played many hundreds of times without success.
A couple of years ago I played a 4x4 level 5 game over 200 times because on the first play it looked winnable.
Date: Mon Sep 20 19:40:44 2021
User: Oded789
Message:Lol, there's only one 4x4 game with 75 plays or more.
Date: Mon Sep 20 19:43:09 2021
User: roo
Message:A little research has revealed:
7x3 21894-5, 0/383
7x3 31520-5, 0/293
4x4 8844-5, 0/251
How about this game!
7x3 9627-5, 1/375
Date: Mon Sep 20 19:46:09 2021
User: roo
Message:Yes Oded, I was banging my head against a brick wall for weeks over that 4x4, in 2019 I think it was!
Date: Tue Sep 21 17:42:16 2021
User: Klepp
Message:12967-5 8X2 first of 40
Date: Tue Sep 21 18:36:40 2021
User: sebcbien2
Message:I'm still surprised to discover I'm the first one to resolve a not that difficult game
Game #: 12x0 23525
Game stats: 7/1/14.29%
Difficulty: 6
Elapsed: 2:26
Date: Sat Sep 25 23:17:42 2021
User: Klepp
Message:25338-5 8X2 first of 42
Date: Sun Sep 26 02:59:50 2021
User: Klepp
Message:14458 8X2 first of 52, if I recall correctly
Date: Mon Sep 27 11:47:58 2021
User: JackStraw
Message:roo-your 7x3 game is another interesting category
most games played with just one win
I just played 6x4 diff 5
#4678
118/1
Date: Fri Oct 1 01:47:49 2021
User: Uberman
Message:OK, this is just silly. I think there was one move in there that you could call unorthodox, but other than that it wasn't too bad.
Game: 6x4 #13000
Game Stats: 152/1 - 0.66%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 9:05
Streak: 3
Date: Sun Oct 3 02:07:07 2021
User: Uberman
Message:First game of the day - looked impossible from the outset so just started flinging cards around to get it over and done with but.....what's that, an opening? Surely not....
Game: 6x4 #24033
Game Stats: 63/1 - 1.59%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 4:07
Streak: 1
Date: Sun Oct 3 04:18:52 2021
User: Klepp
Message:7X3 is as deep as I dare go in the narrow end...although W5X8's have given a poor winning percentage to Klepp at exactly 20/24, if I recall correctly...needing much settling...
You're doing work I'm rather sure I couldn't, sir Uberman...
Date: Sun Oct 3 04:44:22 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I'll train myself, since I do sense accomplishment in solving ten sums beaten around only ten percent...sure...
Date: Sun Oct 3 04:47:34 2021
User: Uberman
Message:But you've been doing great work in the world of 8x2s lately, Sir Klepp, so I've no doubt you can bring your skills to the other 10-sums when you feel up to it :o)
Date: Tue Oct 5 18:44:39 2021
User: TitanicTony
Message:Another good win with cards:
Game #: W6x5 8494-6; .... Game stats: 23/1/4.35%.
Date: Tue Oct 5 23:51:08 2021
User: Klepp
Message:19112-5 9X1 first of 27
Date: Thu Oct 7 14:34:09 2021
User: JackStraw
Message:I've been playing like crap lately but every so often you pull one out.
6x4
diff 5
#26863
now 94/2 2.13 %
no artificial aids were used in the completion of the task
Date: Thu Oct 7 17:54:15 2021
User: Klepp
Message:1152-5 10X0 first of 21
Date: Fri Oct 8 00:21:33 2021
User: Klepp
Message:25608-5 10X0 first of 22
Date: Fri Oct 8 01:06:35 2021
User: byronsmoot
Message:You Win
Game #: 7x3 8240
Game stats: 27/1/3.70%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 2:13
Date: Sun Oct 10 20:40:44 2021
User: Klepp
Message:24669-5 10X0 first of 29
Date: Wed Oct 13 08:31:27 2021
User: Klepp
Message:18759-5 9X0 first of 22
Date: Wed Oct 13 22:45:58 2021
User: cellmate
Message:
6x5 17391-6 9/1/11.11%
this one cost me the streak.... got it after a few times
a frustrating swing several moves in from "can't possibly lose" to a wtf "can't possibly win"
Date: Wed Oct 20 14:34:48 2021
User: TitanicTony
Message:You Win. ..... Game #: 10x1 8984-9; ..... Game stats: 13/1/7.69%.
Unfortunately, it was my 2nd try.
Date: Wed Oct 20 15:57:13 2021
User: redberet
Message:You two ought to keep your squabbles in house, that's what probably led to your current situation.
Date: Wed Oct 20 20:03:15 2021
User: d164280
Message:10x1 28853-6 19/1/5.3% 3939ELO SWEET!!!
Date: Wed Oct 20 20:48:08 2021
User: TitanicTony
Message:Gee, two in one day: ... You Win.
Game #: 10x1 - 14640-6; ... Game stats: 10/1/10.00%.
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