- Aug 16, 2011 Re-installing Free Cell. How can I re-install or download the Free Cell game that came with my computer. I have an HP Media Center running Windows XP. The Free Cell game that came install has been uninstalled.
- Freecell Pro plays similarly to Microsoft FC and has the same game numbers. It does not run under Windows 3.1. It has many options for compatibility with Microsoft FreeCell, including keyboard support for 0 and 9, optional double-click to send cards to the freecells, and won-lost statistics. FCPro also has many extra features.
Download this game from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 8.1. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for FreeCell Collection Free. Oct 26, 2017 With the game open, press and hold (or right-click) the game button on your taskbar and select Pin to taskbar. When you close the game, the button will still be there. Select the Start button, then scroll down to Microsoft Solitaire Collection, press and hold (or right-click) the tile, and select Pin to Start. It'll be available on the Start menu.
Paul Alfille changed Baker's Game by making cards build according to alternate colors, thus creating FreeCell. He implemented the first computerized version of it for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978. The game became popular mainly due to Jim Horne, who learned the game from the PLATO system and implemented the game as a full graphical version for Windows. This was eventually bundled along with several releases of Windows.
Microsoft Freecell Game
- Shuffle, then deal the 52 cards face up in 8 columns with each card visible but only the end card of each column fully exposed. Four columns will have 7 cards, the others only 6.
- Apart from the columns, there are four single card free cells and four suit piles (foundations). The objective is to get all the cards into the foundations.
- Single exposed cards may be moved:
- Column to column, placing the card on a card of the next rank and different colour suit. (E.G. Place a red 3 on a black 4.) (Aces are low.). Empty columns may be filled with any suit or rank.
- Column to FreeCell, any exposed card as long as there is an empty cell.
- FreeCell to Column, as column to column.
- Column to suit home pile. Next card in order, starting with the Ace, ending with the King. Each suit is completely independent.
- FreeCell to suit home pile. As column to suit home pile.
Microsoft Free Cell Games Solitaire
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compiled by Michael Keller, based on earlier lists by Dave Ringand Wilson Callan.
Copyright ©2010 by Michael Keller. All rights reserved.
This page was revised on May 19, 2010.
Here are a number of lists (from various sources) of hard FreeCell deals, and a couple oflists of easy ones (all numbers refer to the deal numbering scheme used by MicrosoftFreeCell, FreeCell Pro, and several other programs):
(1) Dave Ring's original list of hard deals from the Internet FreeCell Project (Solutionsto all of these are in the catalog):
169, 178, 258, 454, 617, 718, 1689, 1941, 2021, 2350, 2577,2607, 2670, 2772, 3285, 3342, 3349, 3685, 3772, 3788, 3801, 3973, 4257, 4368, 4540, 4591,4714, 4946, 5179, 5374, 5453, 5482, 5490, 5548, 5557, 6343, 6673, 6745, 6751, 6768, 7107,7160, 7600, 7700, 8005, 8323, 8534, 8591, 8652, 8678, 8749, 8820, 9250, 9385, 9538, 9617,9700, 10589, 11281, 11386, 11409, 11430, 11677, 11854, 12211, 12313, 13015, 14051, 14188,14676, 14795, 14879, 14965, 14977, 15023, 15099, 15130, 15133, 15164, 15227, 15238, 15710,15746, 15905, 15939, 16191, 16575, 16576, 17277, 17524, 17764, 17768, 18623, 18992, 19410,19484, 19633, 19763, 19861, 20055, 20251, 20589, 20715, 20912, 21051, 21185, 21278, 21785,21896, 21899, 22332, 24063, 24457, 24549, 24735, 25123, 25155, 25450, 25599, 25602, 25790,25856, 25995, 26093, 26183, 26197, 26369, 26421, 26576, 26693, 26694, 26710, 27188, 29001,29154, 29198, 29345, 29704, 30000, 30108, 30394, 30615, 30712, 30801, 31044, 31266, 31465,31601, 31647, 31729, 31918, 31945.
(2) Rated list of the Internet Project deals attempted by Gary K. Fromm.
1 try: 178, 2350, 2577, 2607, 2670, 2772, 3772, 5374, 5548, 5557, 6343, 6745, 6751, 6768,7600, 8749, 9250, 9617, 11409, 11677, 14965, 14977, 15099, 15133, 15164, 15238, 15746,16191, 17277, 17524, 17768, 18992, 19484, 20055, 20715, 20912, 21051, 21185, 25123, 25155,26694, 24063, 24457, 25790, 26421, 26693, 26694, 30000, 30108, 31918
2 tries: 169, 3285, 3801, 5482, 6673, 7160, 8005, 8323, 8820, 13015, 14051, 14676, 15023,16575, 21785, 21896, 24549, 26093, 29704, 30712, 31044, 31729
3 tries: 7700, 8534, 8678, 9538, 11281, 15227, 17764, 26183, 26197, 26576, 31266
4 tries: 12313, 16576, 18623, 21278, 21899
6 tries: 3342, 5490, 22332
7 tries: 3349, 8652, 9385, 26369, 29345
8 tries: 31647
9 tries: 9700, 25602
10 tries: 29198
11 tries: 25995
12 tries: 19633, 20589
13 tries: 25450
14 tries: 12211
15 tries: 7107, 8591, 11386
19 tries: 25856
(3) Adrian's list and strategy:
Difficult hands according to Adrian Ettlinger: 285, 335, 339, 463, 665, 737, 1136, 1483,1567, 1617, 1651, 2793, 2884, 3232, 3285, 3289, 3496, 3685, 3699, 4054, 4368, 4467, 4855,4941, 5087, 5222, 5514, 5624, 5964, 6053, 6501, 6607, 6834, 7303, 7346, 8182, 8436, 8591,8710, 8742, 9102, 9718, 10660, 10692, 10714, 10955, 12330, 12795, 13304, 20418, 26693
Very difficult: 454, 661, 718, 1941, 6182
'As to strategy, here's what I might say: Don't dive into posting aces immediately,but concentrate on all the moves that get the columns in order. This usually will exposeaces unexpectedly. Try to empty out at least one column. Never, unless absolutelynecessary, leave less than two open spaces (free cells plus empty columns) unless you cansee your way out of it.'
(4) Windows 95 for Dummies: 285, 27006, 31465
31465 was also one of the last to be solved in the Internet Project.
(5) requests on rec.games.playing-cards:
169, 178, 617, 718, 865, 901, 7107, 20581, 24165, 31235, 31465
on other newsgroups and elsewhere on the Internet:
277, 617, 949, 3467, 3631, 5468, 6182, 7305, 10316, 11819, 11944, 17426, 19287, 19590,26576, 27542, 29596, 31302
(5a) direct requests to Wilson Callan or Michael Keller (495) -- some of these are in the catalog:
24, 48, 57, 63, 69, 72, 86, 89, 92, 96, 114, 123, 124, 170, 178, 187, 190, 194, 205, 208,221, 237, 245, 261, 285, 315, 322, 328, 330, 336, 421, 445, 451, 463, 469, 495, 512, 518,527, 530, 579, 590, 598, 602, 612, 617, 638, 661, 665, 666, 669, 693, 694, 699, 716, 723,728, 736, 749, 752, 770, 792, 798, 804, 828, 829, 833, 846, 868, 871, 877, 912, 915, 932,949, 988, 992, 1020, 1066, 1072, 1113, 1136, 1165, 1180, 1189, 1256, 1263, 1285, 1288,1317, 1365, 1381, 1388, 1445, 1450, 1495, 1506, 1515, 1520, 1522, 1526, 1567, 1599, 1617,1632, 1635, 1637, 1647, 1651, 1652, 1656, 1673, 1676, 1689, 1691, 1734, 1767, 1857, 1924,1941, 1953, 1976, 2048, 2075, 2081, 2082, 2172, 2240, 2241, 2261, 2264, 2277, 2288, 2301,2364, 2416, 2456, 2481, 2558, 2578, 2801, 2821, 2884, 2902, 2911, 2971, 2977, 3015, 3099,3112, 3130, 3152, 3188, 3199, 3289, 3294, 3350, 3426, 3467, 3469, 3476, 3496, 3635, 3637,3699, 3900, 3901, 3925, 3975, 4023, 4034, 4074, 4089, 4118, 4267, 4321, 4420, 4538, 4603,4609, 4813, 4891, 4950, 5087, 5100, 5157, 5225, 5265, 5463, 5514, 5588, 5629, 5714, 5727,5766, 5851, 5979, 6056, 6182, 6185, 6218, 6240, 6247, 6275, 6281, 6415, 6460, 6492, 6498,6581, 6611, 6693, 6775, 6781, 6821, 6834, 6918, 7000, 7107, 7202, 7259, 7301, 7303, 7305,7339, 7346, 7354, 7382, 7385, 7660, 7941, 8122, 8168, 8182, 8377, 8390, 8413, 8431, 8454,8481, 8517, 8566, 8591, 8613, 8618, 8732, 8742, 8811, 8866, 8950, 9000, 9182, 9282, 9444,9457, 9508, 9550, 9555, 9718, 9764, 9784, 9787, 9790, 9877, 9888, 10178, 10191, 10414,10509, 10692, 10884, 11027, 11114, 11210, 11218, 11440, 11465, 11767, 11775, 11854, 11944,11967, 12006, 12056, 12158, 12161, 12166, 12286, 12366, 12442, 12467, 12635, 12753, 12773,13228, 13284, 13304, 13324, 13375, 13388, 13414, 13582, 13705, 13717, 13751, 13752, 13925,13926, 13996, 14070, 14078, 14107, 14212, 14316, 14623, 14991, 15051, 15283, 15352, 15396,15481, 15511, 15512, 15546, 15562, 15618, 15679, 15742, 15799, 16129, 16380, 16768, 16839,16845, 16849, 17015, 17021, 17355, 17356, 17467, 17503, 17536, 17680, 17683, 17752, 17803,17976, 17985, 18048, 18118, 18181, 18192, 18446, 18512, 18538, 18600, 18652, 18663, 18685,18712, 18865, 18872, 18906, 19052, 19057, 19070, 19152, 19363, 19552, 19590, 19609, 19837,19880, 20008, 20086, 20112, 20411, 20413, 20489, 20509, 20547, 20703, 20725, 20785, 20808,20810, 20823, 20830, 20865, 20888, 20931, 21042, 21151, 21322, 21365, 21454, 21491, 21587,21948, 22040, 22196, 22369, 22391, 22554, 22661, 22907, 23216, 23219, 23237, 23260, 23424,23494, 23717, 23927, 23990, 24020, 24104, 24105, 24106, 24127, 24341, 24389, 24934, 25246,25293, 25315, 25351, 25424, 25558, 25574, 25613, 25624, 25656, 25775, 25856, 25957, 25964,26048, 26053, 26061, 26194, 26478, 26576, 26693, 26766, 26889, 26903, 26916, 26947, 27117,27201, 27327, 27499, 27545, 27949, 27978, 28016, 28085, 28118, 28149, 28216, 28920, 29007,29048, 29086, 29195, 29230, 29508, 29557, 29564, 29596, 29664, 29691, 29774, 29908, 30057,30256, 30313, 30382, 30556, 30612, 30647, 30728, 30887, 30914, 31087, 31166, 31188, 31404,31465, 31631, 31772, 31938, 31951, 31963
(6) Laura Ross of Omaha, Nebraska played all 32,000 of the original deals, solving all but five of thedeals (8591, the impossible 11982, 13007, 31465, and 31938). She found617 and 1941 the most difficult of those she solved.
NoelDingman of North Creek, New York has played all of the deals from 1 tobeyond 80000, failing to solve only numbers 11982 and 57148.
(7) Two Japanese lists mentioned on HideyukiIchihara's excellent site:
[a] 169, 322, 915, 1941, 7825, 30057, 31729
[b] 1600, 1941
1941 is cited on both lists as well as Adrian's 'very difficult' list: is thisthe hardest solvable hand?
Ichihara's site has a completerecord of his solving efforts (numbers of tries for each deal and solution hints forthe hardest); he has finished the first 32,000 deals.
(8) Michael Keller's rejects from the 2000 he was assigned by Dave Ring -- I didn't solvethese until many months later:
3342, 4074, 4540, 4591, 5490, 6589, 7046, 7047, 7057, 7426, 14051, 14188, 14580, 14759 (21tries), 14762, 14795, 15135, 19410 (24 tries), 19484, 22332, 22369 (22 tries -- last tofall), 22372, 22380, 29154, 29195, 31706, 31729, 31772. Other deals I marked as difficult,or which took a lot of tries: 21491 (26 tries), 29001, and 29198 (about ten tries).
(9) 69 very easy deals: [solvable with zero freecells, moving one card at a time as in standard FreeCell (Use FreeCell Pro to prohibit indirect FreeCell usage)]:
164, 892, 1012, 1081, 1150, 1529, 2508, 2514, 3178, 3225, 3250, 4929, 5055, 5152, 5213,5300, 5814, 5877, 5907, 6749, 6893, 7018, 7058, 7167, 7807, 8355, 8471, 8961, 9998, 10772,11863, 11987, 12392, 12411, 12676, 13214, 13464, 13532, 14014, 14624, 14826, 15140, 15196,17772, 17871, 18026, 18150, 18427, 19951, 20533, 21657, 21900, 22663, 23328, 24176, 24919,25001, 25904, 26719, 27121, 27853, 28856, 30329, 30418, 30584, 30755, 30849, 31185, and31316.
Paul Alfille changed Baker's Game by making cards build according to alternate colors, thus creating FreeCell. He implemented the first computerized version of it for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978. The game became popular mainly due to Jim Horne, who learned the game from the PLATO system and implemented the game as a full graphical version for Windows. This was eventually bundled along with several releases of Windows.
Microsoft Freecell Game
- Shuffle, then deal the 52 cards face up in 8 columns with each card visible but only the end card of each column fully exposed. Four columns will have 7 cards, the others only 6.
- Apart from the columns, there are four single card free cells and four suit piles (foundations). The objective is to get all the cards into the foundations.
- Single exposed cards may be moved:
- Column to column, placing the card on a card of the next rank and different colour suit. (E.G. Place a red 3 on a black 4.) (Aces are low.). Empty columns may be filled with any suit or rank.
- Column to FreeCell, any exposed card as long as there is an empty cell.
- FreeCell to Column, as column to column.
- Column to suit home pile. Next card in order, starting with the Ace, ending with the King. Each suit is completely independent.
- FreeCell to suit home pile. As column to suit home pile.
Microsoft Free Cell Games Solitaire
Back to main FreeCell page
compiled by Michael Keller, based on earlier lists by Dave Ringand Wilson Callan.
Copyright ©2010 by Michael Keller. All rights reserved.
This page was revised on May 19, 2010.
Here are a number of lists (from various sources) of hard FreeCell deals, and a couple oflists of easy ones (all numbers refer to the deal numbering scheme used by MicrosoftFreeCell, FreeCell Pro, and several other programs):
(1) Dave Ring's original list of hard deals from the Internet FreeCell Project (Solutionsto all of these are in the catalog):
169, 178, 258, 454, 617, 718, 1689, 1941, 2021, 2350, 2577,2607, 2670, 2772, 3285, 3342, 3349, 3685, 3772, 3788, 3801, 3973, 4257, 4368, 4540, 4591,4714, 4946, 5179, 5374, 5453, 5482, 5490, 5548, 5557, 6343, 6673, 6745, 6751, 6768, 7107,7160, 7600, 7700, 8005, 8323, 8534, 8591, 8652, 8678, 8749, 8820, 9250, 9385, 9538, 9617,9700, 10589, 11281, 11386, 11409, 11430, 11677, 11854, 12211, 12313, 13015, 14051, 14188,14676, 14795, 14879, 14965, 14977, 15023, 15099, 15130, 15133, 15164, 15227, 15238, 15710,15746, 15905, 15939, 16191, 16575, 16576, 17277, 17524, 17764, 17768, 18623, 18992, 19410,19484, 19633, 19763, 19861, 20055, 20251, 20589, 20715, 20912, 21051, 21185, 21278, 21785,21896, 21899, 22332, 24063, 24457, 24549, 24735, 25123, 25155, 25450, 25599, 25602, 25790,25856, 25995, 26093, 26183, 26197, 26369, 26421, 26576, 26693, 26694, 26710, 27188, 29001,29154, 29198, 29345, 29704, 30000, 30108, 30394, 30615, 30712, 30801, 31044, 31266, 31465,31601, 31647, 31729, 31918, 31945.
(2) Rated list of the Internet Project deals attempted by Gary K. Fromm.
1 try: 178, 2350, 2577, 2607, 2670, 2772, 3772, 5374, 5548, 5557, 6343, 6745, 6751, 6768,7600, 8749, 9250, 9617, 11409, 11677, 14965, 14977, 15099, 15133, 15164, 15238, 15746,16191, 17277, 17524, 17768, 18992, 19484, 20055, 20715, 20912, 21051, 21185, 25123, 25155,26694, 24063, 24457, 25790, 26421, 26693, 26694, 30000, 30108, 31918
2 tries: 169, 3285, 3801, 5482, 6673, 7160, 8005, 8323, 8820, 13015, 14051, 14676, 15023,16575, 21785, 21896, 24549, 26093, 29704, 30712, 31044, 31729
3 tries: 7700, 8534, 8678, 9538, 11281, 15227, 17764, 26183, 26197, 26576, 31266
4 tries: 12313, 16576, 18623, 21278, 21899
6 tries: 3342, 5490, 22332
7 tries: 3349, 8652, 9385, 26369, 29345
8 tries: 31647
9 tries: 9700, 25602
10 tries: 29198
11 tries: 25995
12 tries: 19633, 20589
13 tries: 25450
14 tries: 12211
15 tries: 7107, 8591, 11386
19 tries: 25856
(3) Adrian's list and strategy:
Difficult hands according to Adrian Ettlinger: 285, 335, 339, 463, 665, 737, 1136, 1483,1567, 1617, 1651, 2793, 2884, 3232, 3285, 3289, 3496, 3685, 3699, 4054, 4368, 4467, 4855,4941, 5087, 5222, 5514, 5624, 5964, 6053, 6501, 6607, 6834, 7303, 7346, 8182, 8436, 8591,8710, 8742, 9102, 9718, 10660, 10692, 10714, 10955, 12330, 12795, 13304, 20418, 26693
Very difficult: 454, 661, 718, 1941, 6182
'As to strategy, here's what I might say: Don't dive into posting aces immediately,but concentrate on all the moves that get the columns in order. This usually will exposeaces unexpectedly. Try to empty out at least one column. Never, unless absolutelynecessary, leave less than two open spaces (free cells plus empty columns) unless you cansee your way out of it.'
(4) Windows 95 for Dummies: 285, 27006, 31465
31465 was also one of the last to be solved in the Internet Project.
(5) requests on rec.games.playing-cards:
169, 178, 617, 718, 865, 901, 7107, 20581, 24165, 31235, 31465
on other newsgroups and elsewhere on the Internet:
277, 617, 949, 3467, 3631, 5468, 6182, 7305, 10316, 11819, 11944, 17426, 19287, 19590,26576, 27542, 29596, 31302
(5a) direct requests to Wilson Callan or Michael Keller (495) -- some of these are in the catalog:
24, 48, 57, 63, 69, 72, 86, 89, 92, 96, 114, 123, 124, 170, 178, 187, 190, 194, 205, 208,221, 237, 245, 261, 285, 315, 322, 328, 330, 336, 421, 445, 451, 463, 469, 495, 512, 518,527, 530, 579, 590, 598, 602, 612, 617, 638, 661, 665, 666, 669, 693, 694, 699, 716, 723,728, 736, 749, 752, 770, 792, 798, 804, 828, 829, 833, 846, 868, 871, 877, 912, 915, 932,949, 988, 992, 1020, 1066, 1072, 1113, 1136, 1165, 1180, 1189, 1256, 1263, 1285, 1288,1317, 1365, 1381, 1388, 1445, 1450, 1495, 1506, 1515, 1520, 1522, 1526, 1567, 1599, 1617,1632, 1635, 1637, 1647, 1651, 1652, 1656, 1673, 1676, 1689, 1691, 1734, 1767, 1857, 1924,1941, 1953, 1976, 2048, 2075, 2081, 2082, 2172, 2240, 2241, 2261, 2264, 2277, 2288, 2301,2364, 2416, 2456, 2481, 2558, 2578, 2801, 2821, 2884, 2902, 2911, 2971, 2977, 3015, 3099,3112, 3130, 3152, 3188, 3199, 3289, 3294, 3350, 3426, 3467, 3469, 3476, 3496, 3635, 3637,3699, 3900, 3901, 3925, 3975, 4023, 4034, 4074, 4089, 4118, 4267, 4321, 4420, 4538, 4603,4609, 4813, 4891, 4950, 5087, 5100, 5157, 5225, 5265, 5463, 5514, 5588, 5629, 5714, 5727,5766, 5851, 5979, 6056, 6182, 6185, 6218, 6240, 6247, 6275, 6281, 6415, 6460, 6492, 6498,6581, 6611, 6693, 6775, 6781, 6821, 6834, 6918, 7000, 7107, 7202, 7259, 7301, 7303, 7305,7339, 7346, 7354, 7382, 7385, 7660, 7941, 8122, 8168, 8182, 8377, 8390, 8413, 8431, 8454,8481, 8517, 8566, 8591, 8613, 8618, 8732, 8742, 8811, 8866, 8950, 9000, 9182, 9282, 9444,9457, 9508, 9550, 9555, 9718, 9764, 9784, 9787, 9790, 9877, 9888, 10178, 10191, 10414,10509, 10692, 10884, 11027, 11114, 11210, 11218, 11440, 11465, 11767, 11775, 11854, 11944,11967, 12006, 12056, 12158, 12161, 12166, 12286, 12366, 12442, 12467, 12635, 12753, 12773,13228, 13284, 13304, 13324, 13375, 13388, 13414, 13582, 13705, 13717, 13751, 13752, 13925,13926, 13996, 14070, 14078, 14107, 14212, 14316, 14623, 14991, 15051, 15283, 15352, 15396,15481, 15511, 15512, 15546, 15562, 15618, 15679, 15742, 15799, 16129, 16380, 16768, 16839,16845, 16849, 17015, 17021, 17355, 17356, 17467, 17503, 17536, 17680, 17683, 17752, 17803,17976, 17985, 18048, 18118, 18181, 18192, 18446, 18512, 18538, 18600, 18652, 18663, 18685,18712, 18865, 18872, 18906, 19052, 19057, 19070, 19152, 19363, 19552, 19590, 19609, 19837,19880, 20008, 20086, 20112, 20411, 20413, 20489, 20509, 20547, 20703, 20725, 20785, 20808,20810, 20823, 20830, 20865, 20888, 20931, 21042, 21151, 21322, 21365, 21454, 21491, 21587,21948, 22040, 22196, 22369, 22391, 22554, 22661, 22907, 23216, 23219, 23237, 23260, 23424,23494, 23717, 23927, 23990, 24020, 24104, 24105, 24106, 24127, 24341, 24389, 24934, 25246,25293, 25315, 25351, 25424, 25558, 25574, 25613, 25624, 25656, 25775, 25856, 25957, 25964,26048, 26053, 26061, 26194, 26478, 26576, 26693, 26766, 26889, 26903, 26916, 26947, 27117,27201, 27327, 27499, 27545, 27949, 27978, 28016, 28085, 28118, 28149, 28216, 28920, 29007,29048, 29086, 29195, 29230, 29508, 29557, 29564, 29596, 29664, 29691, 29774, 29908, 30057,30256, 30313, 30382, 30556, 30612, 30647, 30728, 30887, 30914, 31087, 31166, 31188, 31404,31465, 31631, 31772, 31938, 31951, 31963
(6) Laura Ross of Omaha, Nebraska played all 32,000 of the original deals, solving all but five of thedeals (8591, the impossible 11982, 13007, 31465, and 31938). She found617 and 1941 the most difficult of those she solved.
NoelDingman of North Creek, New York has played all of the deals from 1 tobeyond 80000, failing to solve only numbers 11982 and 57148.
(7) Two Japanese lists mentioned on HideyukiIchihara's excellent site:
[a] 169, 322, 915, 1941, 7825, 30057, 31729
[b] 1600, 1941
1941 is cited on both lists as well as Adrian's 'very difficult' list: is thisthe hardest solvable hand?
Ichihara's site has a completerecord of his solving efforts (numbers of tries for each deal and solution hints forthe hardest); he has finished the first 32,000 deals.
(8) Michael Keller's rejects from the 2000 he was assigned by Dave Ring -- I didn't solvethese until many months later:
3342, 4074, 4540, 4591, 5490, 6589, 7046, 7047, 7057, 7426, 14051, 14188, 14580, 14759 (21tries), 14762, 14795, 15135, 19410 (24 tries), 19484, 22332, 22369 (22 tries -- last tofall), 22372, 22380, 29154, 29195, 31706, 31729, 31772. Other deals I marked as difficult,or which took a lot of tries: 21491 (26 tries), 29001, and 29198 (about ten tries).
(9) 69 very easy deals: [solvable with zero freecells, moving one card at a time as in standard FreeCell (Use FreeCell Pro to prohibit indirect FreeCell usage)]:
164, 892, 1012, 1081, 1150, 1529, 2508, 2514, 3178, 3225, 3250, 4929, 5055, 5152, 5213,5300, 5814, 5877, 5907, 6749, 6893, 7018, 7058, 7167, 7807, 8355, 8471, 8961, 9998, 10772,11863, 11987, 12392, 12411, 12676, 13214, 13464, 13532, 14014, 14624, 14826, 15140, 15196,17772, 17871, 18026, 18150, 18427, 19951, 20533, 21657, 21900, 22663, 23328, 24176, 24919,25001, 25904, 26719, 27121, 27853, 28856, 30329, 30418, 30584, 30755, 30849, 31185, and31316.
Sincethese deals can be solved in standard FreeCell without using anyfreecells, even for momentary storage, they should be very easy tosolve when using the normal four freecells. They are notnecessarily easy to solve without freecells. We are confidentthat this is a comprehensive list: please do not write to me, as dozensof people have done, to tell me of deals we have left off, when theyare actually playing Relaxed FreeCell.
(10) Easy deals: Games #1 through #200 solvable with one freecell(Use FreeCell Pro to prohibit indirect FreeCell usage):
2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 26, 30, 33, 37, 38, 51, 54, 56, 58, 59, 77, 79, 85, 87, 91, 94, 97, 98,99, 103, 104, 105, 109, 113, 116, 134, 144, 150, 151, 155, 163, 164, 166, 173, 179, 180,186, 195, and 198.
(11) 199 hard deals, unsolvable with three freecells:
All of these except for 11982 can be solved with four freecells.
169, 178, 285, 454, 575, 598, 617, 657, 775, 829,
988, 1025, 1136, 1443, 1495, 1661, 1734, 1941, 2081, 2240,
2241, 2563, 2670, 2802, 3015, 3130, 3289, 3685, 3772, 4368,
4609, 4625, 4946, 5157, 5254, 5463, 5707, 5979, 6017, 6139,
6255, 6365, 6498, 6775, 6834, 6918, 7000, 7057, 7107, 7303,
7305, 7477, 7700, 8182, 8454, 8591, 8613, 8820, 8927, 9209,
9278, 9784, 9790, 9877, 10288, 10370, 10692, 11281, 11304, 11819,
11944, 11982, 12006, 12021, 12166, 12319, 12330, 12381, 12753, 12773,
12795, 13007, 13015, 13304, 13388, 13584, 13751, 13867, 13926, 14027,
14070, 14267, 14623, 14904, 15339, 15382, 15512, 15562, 15695, 15704,
15710, 16129, 16202, 16407, 17426, 17467, 17680, 17683, 17736, 17863,
17985, 18118, 18192, 18356, 18600, 18623, 18872, 18947, 19013, 19146,
19590, 19767, 19837, 19880, 20055, 20112, 20418, 20489, 20547, 20581,
20589, 20725, 20737, 20757, 20810, 20830, 21278, 21454, 21491, 21560,
21939, 22177, 22521, 22661, 22907, 23156, 23874, 24104, 24591, 24735,
25014, 25129, 25246, 25315, 25375, 25424, 25450, 25558, 25599, 25602,
25957, 25995, 26061, 26194, 26294, 26576, 26629, 26693, 27040, 27201,
27390, 27938, 28118, 28952, 29230, 29345, 29435, 29462, 29474, 29580,
29596, 29628, 29676, 30057, 30414, 30506, 30663, 30887, 30897, 30952,
31044, 31049, 31302, 31465, 31601, 31631, 31675, 31729, 31945.