[Kde-games-devel] Fwd: [kde-doc-english] Grandfather - text: Bug? No bug?

[Yuri Chornoivan]

Hi,

Can somebody shed a little light on the following problem?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Best regards,
Yuri

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Від: "Andreas Rennert" <andreas at rennert.org>
Кому: kde-doc-english at kde.org
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Тема: [kde-doc-english] Grandfather - text: Bug? No bug?
Дата: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:22:44 +0300

Hello people,

this is the first time I contact and therefore become a member of an open  
organisation. I hope I don't sound too naive.

It is all about the KPATIENCE - KDE - Grandfather game. The help-text says  
in paragraph 6:

'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.'

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).

So you put the player in a position where he has less chances than the  
'machine', and that is very unfair!

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.

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:

a) systematically, turning the open cards onto the pile, putting one pile  
upon the other from left to right, or
b) following some other order principle.

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.

Thank you all for your fantastic work!

Andreas Rennert
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