[Kde-games-devel] Re: kpat solvers

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi somekool (and all),

On Tuesday 18 Jan 2011 07:11:43 somekool at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I was wondering if there was some kind of wiki page that keeps the status
> of different solvers?
> 
> game such as the Spider and Simple Simon seems quite unsolved....
> 

You are right about the Simple Simon solver - the first deal I tried ended up 
in an infinite loop moving some cards between two parents back and forth. If 
you're interested in an alternative (and likely better) solver for Simple 
Simon you can take a look at Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ . 
The name is a relic of its distant past when it could only solve Freecell, but 
it can now solve several related variants of Solitaire including Simple Simon. 
PySolFC successfully utilises it for Freecell, Simple Simon and many 
other games - http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ .

I've started working on integrating Freecell Solver into kpat and got my patch 
in a working condition, but since then kpat was updated, and furthermore, I 
was focusing on Freecell instead of Simple Simon.

(Note that I'm the originator and main developer of fc-solve, so all warnings 
apply.)

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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