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[FORUM GAME] Counting with Pictures

Discussion in 'Forum Games' started by 607, Mar 21, 2016.

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How far do you think we'll get before we strand?

Poll closed Mar 24, 2016.

	1-50		3 vote(s)	17.6%
	50-100		1 vote(s)	5.9%
	100-150		4 vote(s)	23.5%
	150-250		1 vote(s)	5.9%
	250-500		5 vote(s)	29.4%
	500-750		1 vote(s)	5.9%
	750-1000		0 vote(s)	0.0%
	1000+		2 vote(s)	11.8%

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FDNY21 Silver Forum Member

FDNY21, Dec 18, 2017

#12701

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607 Ruby Forum Member

Three top contestants for 11968. I found this one to be the most interesting.

607, Dec 18, 2017

#12702

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Sachrock Bronze Forum Member

Sachrock, Dec 18, 2017

#12703

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triphora Revered Member

triphora, Dec 18, 2017

#12704

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607 Ruby Forum Member

Another one!

607, Dec 19, 2017

#12705

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FDNY21 Silver Forum Member

FDNY21, Dec 19, 2017

#12706

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Tie_Die_Guy Revered Member

Tie_Die_Guy, Dec 21, 2017

#12707

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Sachrock Bronze Forum Member

Sachrock, Dec 21, 2017

#12708

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SkeleTin007 Venerable Member

SkeleTin007, Dec 21, 2017

#12709

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607 Ruby Forum Member

I couldn't find anything, so, um...

607, Dec 22, 2017

#12710

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Tie_Die_Guy Revered Member

Tie_Die_Guy, Dec 22, 2017

#12711

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Sachrock Bronze Forum Member

Sachrock, Dec 22, 2017

#12712

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607 Ruby Forum Member

607, Dec 22, 2017

#12713

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FDNY21 Silver Forum Member

FDNY21, Dec 22, 2017

#12714

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Tie_Die_Guy Revered Member

Tie_Die_Guy, Dec 23, 2017

#12715

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607 Ruby Forum Member

The_Mancub said: ↑

Well, then... I can't actually find any information or anything, so it's probably just nonsense.

The Unbeatable Freecell game, beaten (by cheating).

Micheal Keller said:

Another factor in the popularity of the game, besides Microsoft providing the game free with Windows 95, was Dave Ring's Internet FreeCell Project. In August 1994, Ring solicited volunteers on rec.puzzles, sci.math, and elsewhere (eventually getting more than 100 people involved), and coordinated the volunteers in an effort to solve all 32,000 of the deals in the Microsoft versions. He assigned each volunteer a set of 100 consecutive deals, and the volunteers would report back after they had solved (or tried to solve) all 100, when they would be assigned another set if interested. Ring would reassign any deals reported as unsolved to his best solvers. I didn't get involved in the project until November 1994, but still managed to solve 1,970 deals. The project was completed in April 1995, and all but one deal was reported solved! This is the famous number 11982. I wrote the article on FreeCell and Baker's Game for Games while the project was still finishing up. Dave Ring wrote to Games shortly after the article appeared, reporting that the project was finished. Games printed Ring's letter, along with a layout of the unsolved number 11982, in the October 1995 issue (page 4). A report that 11982 had been solved turned out to be incorrect when it was discovered that the solver was playing Baker's Game (by hand) rather than FreeCell. I have since heard from almost two dozen players (Doug Schmieskors, Laura Ross, Martin E. Martin, Adrian Ettlinger, Freya Wieneke, John Williams, Dick Belmont, Don Rop, Morrie Hoevel, Ginger Martin, Bob Rankin, Wolfhart Wünsche, Rich Hook, Sheridan Wilson, Roberta C. Hendrickson, Emilien Fenez, Milli Stelling, Fred Lamon, Margaret Bannister, Theodore Gregg, Ken Gauvreau, Joyce DaFonte, and David B. Bowie) who have played the entire set of 32,000; most have won all but deal number 11982. 11982 has now eluded solution by probably thousands of human solvers, and at least eight independent computer programs I am aware of (most of which are designed to search exhaustively for a solution), and I am confident in calling it impossible:

Interesting!

607, Dec 23, 2017

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CraftyCosmic, Dec 23, 2017

#12717

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Tie_Die_Guy Revered Member

Tie_Die_Guy, Dec 24, 2017

#12718

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607 Ruby Forum Member

The_Mancub said: ↑

[cut out]

That's... interesting... but I doubt if it's EMC appropriate. xD

Ethy202 said: ↑

Nice!

607, Dec 24, 2017

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Tie_Die_Guy Revered Member

607 said: ↑

That's... interesting... but I doubt if it's EMC appropriate. xD

I thought it was abstract and I was half asleep when I posted it so I just changed the picture right now xD

Tie_Die_Guy, Dec 24, 2017

#12720

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