Looking for mentor in forty thieves
slackadelic
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I’ve been playing the game for around a year pretty consistently. I don’t care about being super fast. What I really want to learn is how to beat some of the games. I’ve tried COUNTLESS times on certain beatable games with no avail… would love some help from those that are consistently 104 score.
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A bunch of attempts at this one today 😞
A bunch of attempts at this one today
Which one? Post the game number and maybe somebody will post some helpful hints. For what it’s worth, I have had much the same experience. I have tried many times to beat games that have been beaten by others, but to no avail. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how they did it. But I guess that’s part of the appeal of Forty Thieves! Good luck to you, my friend.
@slackadelic You need to include game # in your post(s) in order for someone to be able to help you, give you hints.
This is a good post, I even tried to get chatgpt to solve some games for me to no avail. I asked if the ai knew the rules and to recite them; it flawlessly described the gameplay. I typed in the talon and tableau asked if it understood what was entered, and it really did if felt like there was going to be a great success. Then said ok solve; and it spat back about ten moves which broke just about every rule it had just stated, anyway I spent about two hours trying to have AI solve a forty thieves known solvable and couldn't even get it past a couple moves.
So, it is not always about picking up the 1st cards that work off the pile. Sometimes picking up the later version of the same card is the better option. Also look at what you need to move so you can get a vacant space so you are able to pull a card off the pile that is (usually a low card) helpful the build up your finished pile.
Going backwards in the discard pile, when you can, is often as important as going forward with a new card turn.
Look at where the low denomination cards are first,two's and three's and, of course aces.Make sure you don't block them off in the early stages.Go back when you need to and take your time to think it out.This is not a fast game.Study the top players and note how many moves they have to make to complete the game.I'm just an average player but all of the above advice should be of use to you.Above all else enjoy.Take care.
Thank you all!! A bunch of attempts at this one today : https://greenfelt.net/fortythieves?game=373151051
I have not given up yet 😝
@kilgoretrizzout I hope you learned something from your futile use of ChatGPT, namely that so-called artificial intelligence has no intelligence. ChatGPT is a complex application that has the support of a large hardware network, but its capabilities are limited to what its programing specifies that it can do, just like any other program. It can't solve any puzzle that it has not been specifically programmed to solve. It doesn't 'understand' anything the way actual conscious minds like yours and mine do, and it cannot figure out how to use its own programming to perform a given task. The intelligence is to be found in the minds of its designers and programmers, and nowhere else.
@slackadelic The high scores table for that game shows the highest score so far to be something like 65, so you're probably going to be spending a whole lot more time trying to beat it. Good luck!
Remember that not all of the games are beatable. Forty Thieves has a low win rate (about 6% IIRC) and it is unlikely that you will be able to improve on it. It's possible that Green Felt uses a database of winnable games and one of them is chosen at random when a user clicks on New Game, but if that's not the case then there are far more games that can't be won than there are games that can be.
Yes. It looks like one of the best players, 🔥mishap13🔥, has had at last three cracks at that game and hasn’t solved it. I’m not saying that means it’s unsolvable. I’m just saying that someone who plays here a lot, as 🔥mishap13🔥 does, and who specifically focuses on extremely difficult games (particularly games that have not been solved by others), again, as 🔥mishap13🔥 does, hasn’t managed to solve it. So it seems unlikely that a beginner would be able to solve it unless they got lucky. While you are a beginner and just learning the game, I recommend on focusing on games that others have solved. That way you know that it’s at least possible to solve it.
@slackadelic Try 40 Thieves game 1125543191. Let us know if you beat the game.