Comment by noja
6 hours ago
Many solitaire games will not give you an unsolvable puzzle to play. I think freecell only had one (by accident)
6 hours ago
Many solitaire games will not give you an unsolvable puzzle to play. I think freecell only had one (by accident)
Microsoft Solitaire (Klondike) frequently gives you unsolvable hands, especially if you're using Draw-3.
FreeCell "is fundamentally different from most solitaire games in that very few deals are unsolvable" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCell) i.e. most solitaire games deals are unsolvable.
As you said, Microsoft FreeCell does only deal one unsolvable puzzle as standard (#11982 out of 32000) https://www.solitairelaboratory.com/fcfaq.html
Can't remember if I saw it on HN or searched for it, but you can search for the hardest solvable freecell games. I drove myself partially insane trying to solve one. Only got about halfway before I caved
(If you don't have access to windows you can run one of those web based windows desktop lookalikes written in JS).