We all obviously waste time at the computer. How many Nomads play Free Cell?

I KNEW it! Started at zero and just solved 3659. Most recent to kick my butt: 3637. An all new record for losses in a row!!!

Mensa I am not. Densa perhaps! I can't get above a 78% win average and 51 in a row is my current best.

Good mental exercise though.

Dennis: We're PCs you may be a Mac. Free Cell is a sort of up-side-down solitare. You can see all your options before you start moving cards. On Windows XP there are now one million different draws. I understand that there is still one draw that cannot be solved. You'll find it in your start menu under games. The rules couldn't be much simpler. Start playing at your own risk.

Crap...fiffteen rong out of fiffty...a C at best.

So much for making choices based on appearances...

Hell...I didn't spell FreeCell correctly when I started this!!!!

[Edited on 2-10-2007 by vgabndo]

FreeCell---dang it. I also had forgotten about that game---now it is on my mind----

Spelling? Any class in college that did not allow the use of a dictionary was dropped---gave my history students bonus points for every one of my spelling errors they found. Missed 17.

Diane

Diane: I got a chuckle there. I had a really contentious relationship with a prof. in a Survey of World Religions class.
I corrected the spelling on his final, and he gave me a B even though I ACED his test.

I'm a "micro-historian", what did you teach?

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Originally posted by vgabndo Diane: I got a chuckle there. I had a really contentious relationship with a prof. in a Survey of World Religions class. I corrected the spelling on his final, and he gave me a B even though I ACED his test. I'm a "micro-historian", what did you teach?

Ah, the egos of many Social Science Professors---(sorry if that offends any one, and there are REAL exceptions). I also used to teach my high school students some of the practical sides of getting through college. Example, all Social Science Professors have a "point of view", some conservative, some liberal, and while they say they will accept opposing views, don't buy it--most of them really want scarf and barf on their tests---their egos get in the way.

Even though I became a teacher 'late in life' , I have taught a number of things in a number of places. But one of my favorites, and most difficult, was teaching Advanced Placement U.S. History to students in Calexico where about 98% spoke English as a second or third language.

Besides not being able to spell, I also have 0 artistic ability, so the first day of class, I would draw a stick figure on the board and tell them, that was it---they took pitty and would volunteer when I needed something illustrated.

Now, back to that dang FreeCell game!

Diane

[Edited on 2-11-2007 by jdtrotter]

Oxxo:

Go ahead and tell me you did 3637 on the first try.

My previous string was 5 in a row, that punk somehow stunned me eleven times!!! But then I'm just a mid-70%er.

YEAH - FreeCell, Golf.Exe, and for a change to train reaction time and multiple motoric skills - PINBALL. For solution thinking - PEGGED. Keeps my mind off, from things bothering me.>f< And I'm bothered a LOT
Okay - will now try this NEW Link - something to be bothered about now

edited for another thing I love to do - TICKLE- tests on web.tickle.com/tests - tells me about state of brain

[Edited on 11-2-2007 by FARASHA]

That just does not seem right to be able to go all the way back. Just think if you could play poker that way.

Our biggest addiction is Scrabble---learning the Scrabble dictionary lots of strange 2 letter words.

Diane

Perhaps Too Much Disclosure

I had a stroke that affected my vision and my neurologist says that Freecell (and other games requiring logic and strategy) helps to build alternate routes and recovery in my brain paths.

The Growling Gabacho would disagree, he thinks that I have just been mental from the start.