# Can you beat Freecell game #24210?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 22, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853 "2003-05-22T18:12:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/1 "2003-05-22T18:12:31Z")
I’m having trouble with this one. The two black queens at the top of the third column are giving me trouble. I have a disorder that does not allow me to quit on a Freecell game.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/2 "2003-05-22T18:25:07Z")
Yup. Only #11982 is impossible.
[Link.](http://home.earthlink.net/~fomalhaut/fcfaq.html)
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/3 "2003-05-22T18:42:05Z")
Took about 4 tries, but just finished it. It may help that I have no idea what I’m doing when I play Freecell, so I don’t have any strategy to get in my way :).
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/4 "2003-05-22T18:45:58Z")
Crap. #24210 wasn’t even listed as a difficult one.
And that should have read:
Can _you_ beat #24210. 🙂
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/5 "2003-05-22T18:58:13Z")
I have a disorder wherein I must play the day’s date (including the last two digits year, if possible, but once you get past about mid-March, that doesn’t happen) before I can start working for the day.
Anyway, yeah, I’ve had those ones where I try and try and try and then when I finally win, I’m like, “Psssht! Why the hell was I so dumb?”
So did you finally beat it, **Bruce**?
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### Author:  [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/6 "2003-05-22T19:02:06Z")
What I want to know is, why is there no Freecell for Mac?
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/7 "2003-05-22T19:05:16Z")
**auntie em** Negative. And it makes me feel stupid.
**Caricci** There are. If you check that link above they list a few of them.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/8 "2003-05-22T19:05:22Z")
Not quite true, **Munch** , games -1 and 02 are also impossible, but then, they were designed that way as a joke.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/9 "2003-05-22T19:06:50Z")
that should be -2, not 02.
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/10 "2003-05-22T19:14:04Z")
Got it!!! If anybody is playing along at home, my strategy was to build 2 stacks on the left side starting with one red and one black 10.
I love that feeling where you are absolutely positive that the game is won.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/11 "2003-05-22T19:25:16Z")
Heh – funny, **Bruce**. I think when I won, I built mostly on the right side, used the left side for empty column spaces.
Glad you got it!
Daniel
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### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/12 "2003-05-22T19:39:04Z")
Are the game #s the same as the ones you can find in Yahoo? That’s where I play, but don’t want to go trying it and bragging if it’s not even the same game…
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### Author:  [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/13 "2003-05-22T19:53:24Z")
yep. on the first try. But I often have the same experience as others where the relatively straightforward solution eludes me for several tries. A fun but frustrating game.
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-beat-freecell-game-24210/176853/14 "2003-05-22T19:59:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by belladonna \*
> \*\*Are the game #s the same as the ones you can find in Yahoo? That’s where I play, but don’t want to go trying it and bragging if it’s not even the same game… \*\*
Not sure. See if you can win #11982. 🙂