# Freecell - What's your record? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201 "2000-04-13T02:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/1 "2000-04-13T02:08:00Z")
I tied my high of 45 consecutive wins today. I lost the 46th &\*(^%)$# game can you believe that? Anywho, I’m at %87 after 600+ games. Anybody else play it as competitively as I do? ---
**Author:** ![BigRoryG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/2 "2000-04-13T02:24:00Z")
My mom sits behind me and plays freecell while I read the SDMB… thik she has about 10000 games played… her best streak as ofyet is 32 wins… but hey, she’s my mom. * * * “My drinking team has a Rugby problem.” _This sig line has been brought to you by the creative mind of Wally_ If you need a graphic solution, [http:\ alk.to\Piglet](http://http:%5C%09alk.to%5CPiglet) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/3 "2000-04-13T02:30:00Z")
They’re all solvable, so you can’t lose, all you can do is just give up. Anyway, my scoring thing is totally up the boohai, so I can’t keep track. I’m pretty good at it, anyway. * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/4 "2000-04-13T09:11:00Z")
I can’t figure that game out. I mean, I’ve tried it, but I can never get very far before they say, “Sorry, there are no more legal moves.” Minesweeper is my bag. * * * “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/5 "2000-04-13T10:01:00Z")
My streak is 5. my average is 24% but then I’ve only played 400 and some games so not too many but I find it to be an interesting game. * * * Life is an exotic and sonorous nightmare, in which reason does not always play a role… - Exerpted from V:tM ```auto Dreams die hard and we hold them in our hands long after they have turned to dust. - Bowen in Dragonheart ``` Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid. - Seize the Night by Dean Koontz ```auto You know why people call something impossible? Because it hasn't happened yet. - Robin Williams in What Dreams May Come ``` ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/6 "2000-04-13T11:49:00Z")
Best win streak - 38 Winning Percentage - 81% I disagree with **GuanoLad’s** statement that they are all solvable. No firm data, just gut feeling that some of them were losers from the get go. * * * “I’ll tell him but I don’t think he’ll be very keen. He’s already got one, you see!” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/7 "2000-04-13T12:43:00Z")
Well… okay, maybe they aren’t. But there are some that seem so totally unsolvable, even after about 15 tries, and then I take a dramatically different tack and manage to do it. And it says in the rules that the game is, as far as they know, always solvable. * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/8 "2000-04-13T14:42:00Z")
Although I do give up occasionally, I’m certain that they ARE all solveable. Most of the games I’ve lost because I let myself get backed into a corner (or I was looking at the wrong color.) Anywho, most of the games I’ve lost I’ve Restarted (which if you lose then it doesn’t count against you the second time) and figured out what I did wrong. Good luck everybody. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/9 "2000-04-13T14:54:00Z")
Winning streak - 61 Win percentage - 83% ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/10 "2000-04-13T16:53:00Z")
It’s not too hard to come up with an unsolveable starting position. how likely that is, and whether all the starting positions the _game_ will ever come up with are solvable are a different question. Every time I’ve been unable to win, I write down the number so I can try again. I never was unable to eventually win. * * * _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/11 "2000-04-14T05:07:00Z")
My longest winning streak was 83, I think. My winning percentage is usually in the mid-90s. On Minesweeper, my best times are 9, 44, and 140 seconds on the three levels. I played a lot more of both games before discovering the SDMB; now I can’t afford other time-sinks. 😉 * * * “Living in this complex world of the future is not unlike having bees live inside your head.” - F. Scott Firesign ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/12 "2000-04-14T05:43:00Z")
My longest win streak was 162. And game 163 killed me! I saw just what I had done wrong 1 move too late. I used to play a lot, but don’t so much anymore. * * * Cecil said it. I believe it. That settles it. ---
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freecell-whats-your-record/16201/13 "2000-04-21T02:57:00Z")
I am humbled.