Re: Klondike Solitaire Odds


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I'm wondering what the Odds of Winning Klondike Solitaire are? I
certainly don't win very often, maybe 1 in 10. I've found a couple
discussions on the Internet and Usenet groups. Has anyone been able
to calculate this exactly with proof?

A theory and simulation on the odds:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.446403.10

A simulation of a related game:
http://www.stanford.edu/~bvr/psfiles/solitaire.pdf


You presumably know that this discussed here.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.446403.10

Wikipedia says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire):

"The proportion of Klondike games that can be won is currently unknown. No
mathematical model simple enough to allow direct computation of this
probability has yet been found."

Nick


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