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deuceswild2's Klondike (Other)
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| [February 5, 2014 09:44:35 PM]
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Klondike is my favorite game to play when I want to pass time and all I have is time and a deck of cards. Most people don’t know this card game by Klondike, but most know it by solitaire. It is a game involving a 52 card deck. The goal of the game is to create a stack of cards from low to high (Ace to King) in four foundation piles. Each pile only has one suit. 24 cards are in a waste pile stack. One or three cards are drawn at a time off of the waste pile. In the three card draw, three cards will be drawn at once and the 1st card of the three must be used before access is given to the second card, and so on and so on. Three more cards must be drawn if the player doesn’t use the card available. The pile can be re-dealt if the combination of cards has been traversed through. There is no limit on how many times the pile can be traversed through. Then there are 7 stack areas numbered one through seven. At the beginning of the game, the first card at the bottom of the stack is showing and for stack one there is only one card in that stack while in stack seven there is 7 cards. Stacks can be moved and stacked and more cards can be revealed when the last showing card in each stack is moved. The stacks go down in descending order (King to Ace) in alternating colors. My first time playing Klondike for this analysis I realized how much I had been taking for granted with this game. It takes so much thought, time, and analytical tools. The element of randomness is also a fun additive as well. If you think about it a player will always have 52 cards, but how those 52 cards lay will be a mystery if shuffled correctly. First, I tried the one card draw. I shuffled the 52 card deck. Then, I started to organize the seven stack piles. After that I shuffle the remaining cards and lay them down for the waste card pile. When playing, I looked at the seven stacks to see if I can stack any of the cards showing together or put some in one of the foundation piles. After I go through that analysis and see that I cannot make any more legal moves, I draw one card from the waste card pile and use it in one of the stacks. I continue that trend and many others like using the waste pile card to start up the foundational piles and not using the card all together because there was no legal move to use it with. With all of the thought process applications, eleven minutes pass by and I have not won, I used all the waste pile cards that I can, and there is no more legal moves available. When this happens (which it can a lot in Klondike) the player has lost. I hate defeat, but victory in a game like this is much sweeter when you can win without cheating. So, I decide to play again and to make my impending victory (hopeful victory) more sweet, I decide to turn up the difficulty and do a 3 card draw game so I shuffle the cards up and I prepare to play again. I can use the same beginning approach with the initial start by seeing what particular cards I can use for the foundation piles and stack piles. I realize that I cannot perform any legal moves at the very start. So I go to the waste pile and see if I can get any use from those cards. The first two cards that come from the first 3 card draw are aces so they can start their two individual foundation piles. I draw the next three off of the pile and see that I can make some moves with the first card with the stack piles to possibly unveil the hidden cards in them. I have to draw the next three cards. See that they don’t help me at all of my goal so I continue you. As I keep drawing and starting the pile over, adding more cards to their foundation piles, and more cards to the stack piles so I can unveil more cards I see that I actually have unveiled all the stack cards and the waste pile is empty. I have pretty much ended the game, but I must put the remaining cards on the table into their respective foundation piles. After I do that, I am officially done. I have one the game on an even higher difficulty level. I guess that’s just the draw of the cards.
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deuceswild2's Klondike (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 5 January, 2014
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