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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Simple Simon, La Belle Lucie, Canfield, Gargantua, Fortress, Gaps, Poker Square, Scorpion, Decade, Forty Thieves, Golf, Aces Up, Perpetual Motion, Double Klondike, Eight Off, Clock patience, Bisley, The Plot, Beleaguered Castle, Accordion, Agnes, Monte Carlo, Intelligence, Seven Devils, Baker's Dozen, Stalactites, Maze, Duchess, Pyramid, Penguin, Fourteen Out, Labyrinth, Eagle Wing, Miss Milligan, Emperor, Bristol, Mrs. Mop, Deuces, Perseverance, King Albert, House in the Woods, Curds and Whey, Shamrocks, One-Handed Solitaire, Napoleon's Square, Baroness, Auld Lang Syne, Capricieuse, King's Audience, Flower Garden, Alternation, Diplomat, Royal Marriage, Martha, Carpet, Nestor, Westcliff, Yukon, Congress, Blockade, Seahaven Towers, Gay Gordons. Excerpt: FreeCell is a solitaire-based card game played with a 52-card standard deck. It is fundamentally different from most solitaire games in that nearly all deals can be solved. Although software implementations vary, most versions label the hands with a number (derived from the random number seed used to generate the hand). A version of FreeCell was created by Microsoft for release with the Windows operating system. Construction and layout: Building during play: Moves: Victory: For games with the standard layout (four open cells and eight cascades) most games are easily solved. One of the oldest ancestors of FreeCell is Eight Off. In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner described in his "Mathematical Games" column a game by C. L. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit rather than by alternate colors. Gardner wrote "The game was taught to Baker by his father, who in turn learned it from an Englishman during the 1920's." This variant is now called Baker's Game. FreeCell's orig...
