Freecell numerology
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Here's how I have been amusing myself lately: seeking out and playing Freecell games with numerologically interesting numbers. I started with game one.
(To choose your game, append its number to https://greenfelt.net/freecell?game= . Green Felt accepts game numbers up to 10 digits long, i.e. from a universe of ten billion. If you call for a game using 11 or more digits, you just get a random game as if you hadn't said ?game= at all.)
All single-digit games have been mined pretty thoroughly (thousands of plays), and the #1 and #2 spots are mostly claimed by @3bc and @bongwater with sub-10-sec. times. Here is an interesting pattern of user names in the top 10 for the latter part of this series:
Game 7: Sea-eagle, kingfisher, Albatross, Kite, Swallow
8: Sea-eagle, Kite, Hawk, Albatross, kingfisher, Vulture, Osprey
9: Heron, kingfisher, Swallow, Sea-eagle, Osprey, Kite
10: Sea-eagle, Hawk, Gannet, wren, kingfisher, Albatross, Swallow
Here is numerological territory ripe for exploitating by those (ahem, @DeusExMachina) who want to go on record with a #1 position. Except for game one, most have been played only a handful of times.
1 11 111 1111 11111 111111 1111111 11111111 111111111 1111111111
I have played the 2s as well but that's as far as I have taken this daft pastime to date.
Comments
OMG! Fantastic!
I’m pretty sure all those birds are all @kingfisher. See https://blog.greenfelt.net/2012/04/02/april-fools-pranks/
Correction: the highest game number is not ten nines (9,999,999,999) but rather 4,294,967,294 — i.e., 2 ^ 32. So you can construct 10-digit game numbers out of 1s, 2s, and 3s, and after that it's 9 digits.
I have finished playing all 74 games in the nine sets, which I label 1s..9s. Here they all are for your linking pleasure:
2 22 222 2222 22222 222222 2222222 22222222 222222222 2222222222
3 33 333 3333 33333 333333 3333333 33333333 333333333 3333333333
4 44 444 4444 44444 444444 4444444 44444444 444444444
5 55 555 5555 55555 555555 5555555 55555555 555555555
6 66 666 6666 66666 666666 6666666 66666666 666666666
7 77 777 7777 77777 777777 7777777 77777777 777777777
8 88 888 8888 88888 888888 8888888 88888888 888888888
9 99 999 9999 99999 999999 9999999 99999999 999999999
To no one's surprise, I am not the first to tread this numerological road. I found 10 players who show up in the top 10, in at least two games of at least two of the sets 1s..9s. That means these players have demonstrated no small dedication in exploring Freecell numerology. The players are:
@Anita_Bush @hawkgirl @kallyscatch
@kevincroz @Robyn @rortega
@slacker @socius @The_Other_Dude
@uncle_bobm
(Spaces in the players' names have been replaced by underscores.) Click on the attachment to see exactly how dedicated each player is.
@3bc and @bongwater set a high bar! Out of the first five games, I managed to best them on only one. Tied on three, and had to settle for the bronze on one. Dunno whether I’ll be back for more. This made my head hurt!
OK, one more little exercise and I'll let this pastime go (for now). I just played the nine rotating permutations of all the digits in sequence, keeping in mind that the games whose numbers start with 4 and above are limited to 9 digits, not 10.
1234567890
2345678901
3456789012
456789012
567890123
678901234
789012345
890123456
901234567
Most of these games are lonely: I'm the only one on the scoreboard. No one else has ever played them.
Numerological interesting numbers have always held a fascination for obvious reasons. They attract other players, and they are easy to remember, easy to relocate and revisit to improve one's score. Games numbered 1, 2 to 100 are evident choices. But many other numbers like 101, 1001, and less obvious choices like one's birthday are easy to relocate. With 40 different user names of birds, the different games were replayed to see whether my skills could or had improved.
@kingfisher, thanks for adding your perspective.
Turns out I couldn't let it go. I played a bunch of other numerologically interesting games, to wit:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000
10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 80000 90000
Here are the 22 other players who have made the top 10 in at least two of those games per set.
@3bc @Anita_Bush @bongwater
@buginabox @Burnleygirl @doktorjack
@GUNSLINGER @hawkgirl @kallyscatch
@kevincroz @kingfisher @markwschaaf
@mimoraga @molddave$ @ravel
@Robyn @rortega @slacker
@socius @The_Other_Dude @ub_is_back
@uncle_bobm
(Spaces in the players' names have been replaced by underscores.) The attachment has full details.
@DeusExMachina, you have a tribute player (of sorts) showing up in a couple of games: @DuesExCheats [sic].
Sorry, but this is way over my head
Now I really wanna play freecell