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Hello people,<br>
<br>
this is the first time I contact and therefore become a member of an
open organisation. I hope I don't sound too naive.<br>
<br>
It is all about the KPATIENCE - KDE - Grandfather game. The
help-text says in paragraph 6:<br>
<br>
<i>'All cards already in the foundations stay there, but the cards
in the playing piles are reordered to give you a new chance to
find a solution.</i>'<br>
<br>
But you also have to tell the player in what way exactly the
remaining cards are reordered, because they are definitely not
shuffled (and shuffling is also not intended, or else the solver
predictions could only be exact after the last row has been dealt).<br>
<br>
So you put the player in a position where he has less chances than
the 'machine', and that is very unfair!<br>
<br>
If all this seems like drivel to you, then just find somebody who
knows and likes this game, and he or she will know exactly what I'm
talking about.<br>
<br>
Conclusion: The help-text is not sufficient to give the player a
chance to be as clever as the solver, which actually IS possible.
I'd love to correct the text by adding a sentence or two, but I
can't do that because FIRST somebody of you LINUX-programmers has to
look into the program and check how exactly the reordering happens,
namely:<br>
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a) systematically, turning the open cards onto the pile, putting one
pile upon the other from left to right, or <br>
b) following some other order principle.<br>
<br>
I certainly do not think I would be able to file a bug report on
this matter, it sounds very complicated to me. So I hope that this
communication will find a reader who knows how to start the
presumably enormous process of verifying my assumptions, deciding
what to do about it and so on.<br>
<br>
Thank you all for your fantastic work!<br>
<br>
Andreas Rennert<br>
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