Comments on: The Problem with Freeware…and Spider Solitaire

By: terri

terri — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:46:04 +0000

I actually got 4 decks of cards and dealt myself a spider solitaire game JUST TO SEE how many times each and every deal contain 5 of the same cards, Kings or aces on the bottom of each pile. This game is stupid but addictive. On my deathbed I will want the “spider solitaire” years back.

By: stephaniezid

stephaniezid — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:10:52 +0000

Oh, good joke) Did you hear about the farmer who was found guilty of selling rotten fruit? He was judged by his pears!
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By: No_limits92

No_limits92 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:21:56 +0000

So little is thought of this phenomenon that a design student in Australia tells me it does not appear in text books. ,

By: Timmy

Timmy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:07:54 +0000

@John
The problem with that philosophy is that the same thing could be said in chess games where Player X can mate in so many moves, and there’s nothing Player Y can do to stop it. But they have to play through to the end, just in case one of them messes up.

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:02:46 +0000

Actually, once you have removed ALL the hidden cards from the top row, all the games are winnable. So, Spider should just declare you a winner and be done with it.

By: Vincent Povirk

Vincent Povirk — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:51:58 +0000

For reference, aisleriot has a bug about this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407329

And someone sent in a patch that changes “all empty spaces must be filled” to “as many spaces as possible must be filled”: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=124182&action=view

But the patch isn’t in because some purist thinks it’s a bad idea to change the Spider rules: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407329#c6