Tuesday, August 4, 2020

New Freecell Solver version: 6.0.1

Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.

There is a new release of the solver, version 6.0.1 with more details available in NEWS file. Note that this version does not break compatibility with the older releases, and we just felt like incrementing the primary digit.

Among the highlights are some code cleanups, some fixes, and some new features. Special thanks go to Antonio Rojas for reporting a build issue in v6.0.0, which prompted a fix.

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Saturday, April 11, 2020

New Freecell Solver version: 5.22.0

Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.

There is a new release of the solver (version 5.22.0) with more details available in NEWS file. Among the highlights are cleanups, fixes, and some new features.

In addition, we are proud to announce that our attempt at classifying as many zero freecells' deals as possible, as winnable or impossible to solve, has recently gone below 300,000 remaining unknown / intractable deals.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

New Freecell Solver version: 5.16.0

Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.

There is a new release of the solver (version 5.16.0) with more details available in NEWS file. Among the highlights are the unbundling of the rinutils library, generating .msi installers using WiX, and some refactoring and optimisation.

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Sunday, April 14, 2019

Graphical and Animated Display for the Online Freecell Solver

We are happy to announce that the online web-based Freecell solver now has a graphical and animated solution display, thanks to the open source version of Solitairey. The older text-based solution display is still available.

Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.

Also of note is the new releases of the solver (up to version 5.6.0) with more details available in NEWS file, and some progress in compactly storing Freecell positions/states, going below the 64-bits threshold.

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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Freecell Solver 5.0.0 was Released

Freecell Solver version 5.0.0, has been released. It is available in the form of a source archive, Windows 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, and a live online version (which requires JavaScript, and is compatible with most modern browsers, including those for mobile devices) from the download page. Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.

The new release puts the headers under a #include <freecell-solver/…> prefix, adds some new executables, command line options, and compile-time options, and implements several cleanups and speedups.

Also of note is that the website was improved with a modified design which is friendlier to mobile devices (so-called “responsive” web design), some content updates, and some usability enhancements.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Freecell Solver 4.18.0 was Released

Freecell Solver version 4.18.0, has been released. It is available in the form of a source archive, from the download page. Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.

We now have a Microsoft Freecell deal finder (available online) which is faster than a naive search, provide x86-64 Windows binaries, and have a new “looking-glass” with improved performance.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Freecell Solver 4.14.1 was Released

Freecell Solver version 4.14.1, has been released. It is available in the form of a source archive, from the download page. Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.

There have been several intermediate releases since the last release that was announced on this news feed and you are well advised to upgrade. More information on the changes can be found in the NEWS.txt / NEWS.html.