Subject: How long does it take you?

6x7 32441-9

For me it was over 1/2 hour. Apparently not that hard of a game, 6 out of 7. Sometimes i just get off to a bad start.

My three attempts at it. Guess I'm disqualified!

Le sigh. How bout you, Hop? Calico?

I would be surprised if any of calico, Dr.B, FN, Yummi, kenwa, Spud wins it slower than me.

I was a bit nervous playing this as the first deal of the day:

MrFixit, what was your bad start?

I'm pretty sure I chose poorly because I was down to zero freecells a couple of times.

Reasonable time. No close calls.

I got it in 12:23. I thought I was toast a few times, but 13-sum games can be forgiving. (I haven’t played in a long time. I was curious if I still knew how. 🙄)

A little over 3 minutes. If it were a random game without knowing the win % and trying not to crash ELO probably would take some multiple longer.

Jeesh now I'm depressed. OK, so here's what happened. I read about all you studs and studettes than can play these games in a minute or two so I tried blazing thru a game and I came out with just over 2 minutes which is pretty amazing for me.  So then I started thinking "hey I'm kinda like Hop or Dr.B" so then I dove into another one and, well, now I'm stuck. But I always look at a hand a couple times before I resign myself to the inevitable.

I need to go play a 10x6 now...

MrFixit aka Denny

P.S. That 2 minute game I had you guys would probably whip thru in under a minute: 6x7 23173-9

I was scared but I gave it a go and this is what I got and I am by no means a speedster. My touchscreen is a big help though.

WHOA

Desktop jockey - couple of mice stutters!

4:08

My game is built for comfort, not speed. 

My game needs new shocks, a tune-up, some body work, and new seat cushions. But other than that...

Hmm 🧐 Roo was #3, I was #4 

And buzz has "no recent play". Of course he could have played with one of his aliases, but why didn't it register???

My time was 1:24

A course on spatial reasoning just might do the trick. 

I didn't want to say it outright 🤐

I tried 6x7 23173-9 again, this time on my computer. Cut my time in half. I really dislike playing on my phone. 

My time, once again, will not register. I will not commit the cardinal sin of mansplaining the obvious reason why. 

This space is occupied by a bear who was hit by a falling tree before he could complete his task in the woods.

I'd wager that calicokid or jimmyp would be somewhere in the 20-seconds area.

Blank solidarity. ✊

Smells like karma

🔥🐦‍🔥

Takes me that long to just "hmm let's see where are them durn aces?"

Would take me longer for sure if there was a streak riding on it, or if I hadn't seen that calicokid raced through it without any problems.

For some reason I could not write in the above box, but knowing the game wasn't overly hard allowed me to make some pretty bold moves to open the game up quickly.  Never got close to losing it, but I can see how going into this game blind during streaking could cause one to stop to think about their initial moves.  As a speedster, that is rarely my concern :D

Here's one I lost: 6x7 26673-9

I went back and replayed it and won it easily.  I think I know where I went wrong the first time. I'm always attracted to columns with 2 aces so I probably went to clear that out. But then it's after that I suspect I took the wrong turn.

While I've got the Big Guns attentions, give that one a try. I won it in a blazing 7+ minutes on replay.

MrFixit aka Denny

"We made too many wrong mistakes."  --  Yogi Berra as told to MrFixit

When one accepts a challenge, one accepts the risks of internet flakiness leading to an unacceptable time of play, or the even more dreaded - a loss. Which did cross my mind once or twice during play. 

I lost. Won on replay but still took 4:23.

This game is only at 31% but seems pretty easy

This long!

That definitely does not seem like it would be 31%. There must be something a lot of players are missing early that causes them to lose.

8x4 is the only variant you can really trust the percents through all the levels.