![]() In any case, well played Me and the SpiderSolitaire app has the rest of the month to stew □ I might have more to say about this in a future post. Turning two cards in column ‘d’ feels short-sighted to me and likely to lead to serious problems once the stock is empty. I turned over a disappointing Ace of Spades to reach the diagram below (right) but managed to scrape home after dealing the last row. Of course, don’t forget that the software app could also make a pig play of its own and make you look stupid. I like this kind of “pig play”, sacrificing the possibility of turning over (at least) two cards in column ‘d’ and hoping to complete Clubs on the next deal. I spent two empty columns to get one turnover + a “twelve-suit”. The critical position is shown in the diagram below (left). But I pulled myself together to take four wins in as many days, thus ending proceedings then and there. After a balanced start things looked bleak – removing two suits was not enough on the ninth hand, giving me a win ratio of less than 50%. I have now achieved victory in my game of Connect Four with the MobilityWare Spider Solitaire app. The fourth week is where things get spicy as possibilities of diagonal and vertical connect fours come into play. Having avoided an early defeat, it seems we are headed for a long war of attrition as both sides jockey for position. A true display of rot13(junggurshpxrel) from an app I do not entirely trust.Īs for why I consider this one of my “strangest almost-losses”, that’s something you have to figure out for yourself (Incidentally figuring out how to proceed is a good test of your analytical skill). Indeed, I had a rough middlegame after dealing the first row of cards – and somehow I managed to rescue one of the strangest “almost-losses” I have ever seen. Game 5 was a crunch moment – a loss would mean four Reds in a row horizontally and the rest of the month to stew. Games 2 and 4 were perhaps close, but game 3 was a walkover to the bad guys. I won on the first day of the month, then had a string of three losses. It’s certainly tougher than the daily challenges when I could safely assume each hand was solvable with sufficient use of rot13(haqb).
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