{"id":346,"date":"2007-01-28T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=346"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:01:20","slug":"freecell_best_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/freecell_best_s\/","title":{"rendered":"FreeCell Best Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"freecell71.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/freecell71.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" \/><br \/>\nI played a lot of FreeCell during my UVic and PC days. The above is an image of my best streak: 71. After I lost that one I never played again. I also bought a Mac. And if there&#8217;s a FreeCell for OSX I don&#8217;t want to know about it. I waste enough time as it is.<br \/>\nHowever, I suppose I did learn something about strategy. Or maybe just FreeCell strategy. Let me try to recall my process:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Locate the Aces. If it&#8217;s a good hand they won&#8217;t be buried too deep. If they are, just keep in the back of my head that I need to slowly but surely dig them out. Also keep in mind where the 2s are.<\/li>\n<li>Mentally test options, between four to eight moves, before moving cards.<\/li>\n<li>Clear a whole row and keep at least one holding spot open. Do that and I&#8217;m nearly guaranteed home free.<\/li>\n<li>Look for Queens on matching (i.e. opposite colour) Kings already on the board. Clear down to the Queen and stack there.<\/li>\n<li>Be very, very careful about putting Kings into the top left holding area.<\/li>\n<li>Never start a game when you&#8217;re already fucking sick of FreeCell and just want to go to bed. Impatience was the number one killer.<\/li>\n<li>Keep in mind there is only one (or is it two?) flawed FreeCell games (I think one was in the 20,000 range), i.e. every other deal is completable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My top winning streak in the solitary computer card game FreeCell and my strategy for avoiding essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}