Talk:Calculation (card game)

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Aoeuidhtns in topic Waste

i am doing this game, but i can'nt resolve some of those class. So every one can give me the source for this game pls, thx

Rules edit

According to every source I know (e.g., Mott-Smith and Morehead, Cadogan, Gibson), there is no tableau, only a single wastepile, the top of which is available for building on foundations. My bad! I got my wires crossed. The description given in the article is entirely correct, even according to the sources I give--and is in fact the way I always play it, except that I like to play without putting out the foundations first, but only as they become available in the course of the deal. This, of course, makes the game more difficult, but not unreasonably so. Without making it a rule, I give myself extra brownie points if I succeed in reserving all four kings for last.

Kostaki mou 01:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

This is an excellent solitaire which rewards very careful play. I hope someone will challenge the win-rate estimates I edited in recently, but let's find a secure solitaire server and place our wagers in escrow.  :-)

Jamesdowallen 05:53, 2 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

I find the "at least nine of ten" estimate to be hard to believe. I am reasonably skillful and get 50-60% consistently over trials of dozens of games, much better than "1 in 5 with normal play" (whatever that is). Both claims should be deleted without a solid mathematically rigorous source for the upper estimate and some statistical basis for the lower one. Jszigeti (talk) 16:25, 1 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Waste edit

I've just added a paragraph to say that Aisleriot uses a waste pile, whereas the "Four Kings Solitaire" page describes a game which does not. The "Four Kings" version is consequently a little more difficult, but is there any reason to use one or other as the default here? Aoeuidhtns (talk) 00:18, 3 July 2019 (UTC)Reply