Subject: lowest win percent challenge
Date: Fri Sep 30 14:55:31 2016
User: ix
Message:i just got through a game that now has a 7.41 percent win percentage so my challenge is simple: post a game with a lower win percent that you got through, obviously first try and without aids.
Link: http://freecell.net/f/c/view_one_game.html?;32718,5,10x1
Date: Fri Sep 30 14:59:48 2016
User: ix
Message:postscript: i realize this post might languish, but i'd like to try any games that are posted
Date: Fri Sep 30 17:57:55 2016
User: WRAC
Message:Question: Are custom games allowed? (Meaning the player knows the winning percentage in advance.) Or do we have to wait for tough games to appear during regular play?
Date: Fri Sep 30 19:17:31 2016
User: ix
Message:i guess its not really much of a "challenge" since i was really just thinking of how infrequent it is to get and win a low percentage game, without knowing what you are up against. so i'd have to say no (maybe that could be a different thing, i think we could use some sort of actual challenge). i've also wondered about how low a number a person could get by multiplying all the win percentages of a streak.
Date: Sat Oct 1 05:04:45 2016
User: Goosey_Goosey_Gander
Message:I keep a note in a spreadsheet of games I win with a very low percent. My best without using cards (I used to, but not any more) is 12x0, level 5 game# 21126. At the time it was the first win in 25 tries and took me 12 minutes. That was on Oct 13th 2012. It is now 1/36 or 2.8%.
Date: Sat Oct 1 05:11:38 2016
User: Goosey_Goosey_Gander
Message:Another real challenge for you is 7x4, level 10 game#23515. I used cards to win it I'm sorry to say. It is the only win in 43 tries, 2.3%
Date: Sat Oct 1 23:16:48 2016
User: Kaos
Message:I've one-timed a 6x4 at 82x1.
Date: Mon Oct 3 21:18:56 2016
User: joeygray
Message:Here's kind of the opposite of ix's challenge. If you know me, you know how slow a player I am; any game I bang through in less than 90 seconds is bound to be incredibly easy and obvious. How did this one drop below 50%?
Link: Screenshot
Date: Mon Oct 3 22:20:02 2016
User: ix
Message:excellent question joey!!! i played it with almost random mouse clicks and in no rush at all, and still won it in 1:25. it really seems like a game that scully and mulder would want to look into. well, mulder anyway.
Link: http://freecell.net/f/c/view_one_game.html?;26363,5,8x4
Date: Wed Oct 5 22:46:28 2016
User: CubicSprock
Message:Game #: 9x2 953
Game stats: 33/2/6.06%
Difficulty: 9
Elapsed: 6:02
Streak: 41
Today: 41
Current position: 4 view
(7 more passes Goosey_Goosey_Gander)
Daily position: 2 view
(3 more passes T1-T3)
All time position: 46 view
6.06%-er in streak mode.
My personal streak mode best is also similar to Kaos on 6x4. In tournaments I did have a 1/200+er (500 plays and some hints before someone else won it :-P)
Date: Sun Oct 9 15:57:44 2016
User: Kaos
Message:8x2 5719-5 39/2 for 5.13%
Date: Mon Oct 10 08:26:33 2016
User: TitanicTony
Message:Game #: 7x3 5230/5, Game stats: 26/1/3.85%.
Date: Sat Oct 22 08:43:20 2016
User: Mastermind
Message:Game #: 9x1 9038
Game stats: 27/1/3.70%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 4:39
Streak: 5
Today: 5
Current position: 2 view
(1 more passes Billboy)
Daily position: 4 view
(1 more passes Darkosi and SilvioManuel)
All time position: 39 view
Date: Sat Oct 22 12:14:36 2016
User: stinky_cootified_peach_tree
Message:First game I played today, and I was shocked to see the low win percentage, as it flowed easily for me:
Game: 9x1 28931-5
Plays: 72
Wins: 3
Percentage: 4.17
Not too stinky.
Date: Mon Oct 24 07:01:04 2016
User: wildcard
Message:Game #: 7x4 12563
Game stats: 120/1/0.83%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 12:12
Streak: 5
Today: 5
No one will ever beat this one. It was on a slurpee SSC. I found this in fb messenger from when I had sent it to Denny.
Nyah.
Date: Mon Oct 24 13:46:47 2016
User: ix
Message:i posted a while back about a 9x2 i won in the ssc (9x2 13254-7), thinking it might top that but it turned out to be 118/1/0.85%. close but no cigar. winning any game with a single digit win percent, is worth sounding out about.
Date: Mon Oct 24 15:19:22 2016
User: wildcard
Message:That is awesome, ix. No one will ever beat that. Yay for both of us. Top scorers in something. We can hang. Woo
Date: Sun Oct 30 13:38:35 2016
User: Kaos
Message:6x5 18026-11
First game in today's Freakout. 62/1 1.61%. Time was 4:55.
Kudos to ix and wildcard. Anything at < 1% is amazing.
Date: Fri Dec 23 14:02:34 2016
User: Kaos
Message:Game #: 8x2 3086
Game stats: 48/1/2.08%
Difficulty: 5
Elapsed: 2:59
Streak: 3
This one was a bit surprising.
Date: Fri Dec 23 14:49:44 2016
User: WRAC
Message:I keep a record of all previously unwon level 5 games I get on the first attempt in streak play. Here are the last 5:
7x3 22946-5 1/27 6:21 11/30/2016
7x3 30107-5 1/21 2:39 12/01/2016
7x3 14696-5 1/59 6:09 12/15/2016
7x3 20481-5 1/17 5:13 12/17/2016
7x3 31534-5 1/26 7:18 12/23/2016
I point this out because it appears there are still a fair number of unwon 7x3s. To me, this remains the most interesting variant in terms of surprising winnables, i.e., games that look impossible at first glance, but aren't.
Date: Fri Dec 23 15:40:56 2016
User: Kaos
Message:7x3 14696-5 1/59 6:09 12/15/2016
This one looks impossible (or at least improbable) after three glances. Not just one.
Date: Fri Dec 23 16:21:21 2016
User: FilthyMcNasty
Message:Game #: 9x4 25021
Game stats: 69/1/1.45%
Difficulty: 6
Elapsed: 2:38
Streak: n/a
Today: n/a
This one was easy.
.shrug
Date: Sat Dec 24 01:57:45 2016
User: roo
Message:Yeah, found an unplayed game, deliberately lost it 68 times and won the sixty-ninth!
Date: Sat Dec 24 04:28:41 2016
User: bozkurt
Message:I also keep records of some interesting games.
I solved this one at the first attempt when it was at 1/101 (I was the second person who solved it).
7x3 23068-10
Date: Sun Dec 25 07:05:24 2016
User: Goosey_Goosey_Gander
Message:7x4 20575-5 Now 3/559 (I lost) 0.5%
Date: Sun Dec 25 07:32:41 2016
User: Mastermind
Message:Marginally increased the win % to 0.71.Now 363/4.
Date: Sun Dec 25 07:33:50 2016
User: Mastermind
Message:Correction: 563/4.
Date: Sun Dec 25 14:07:48 2016
User: Goosey_Goosey_Gander
Message:Well done Mastermind. I didn't try it again.
Date: Tue Dec 27 07:58:36 2016
User: Darkosi
Message:Today FREAKOUT 6x4 19246-11
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