Freecell Solver
This is Freecell Solver - a program that automatically solves games of Freecell and similar Solitaire variants such as Eight Off, Forecell and Seahaven Towers, as well as Simple Simon boards. Freecell Solver is free software distributed under the public domain. It is written in ANSI C and requires a C compiler to be built. Nevertheless, binaries for Windows 32-bit are available.
Included with the archive is source code for programs that can automatically feed it with the boards of several popular Solitaire Implementations.
Freecell Solver can also be built as a library for use within your own Solitaire implementations. A more detailed list of features can be found in the Features List.
News
15-Dec-2005
The Downloads are now working again. Plus, several new pages were added or updated in the site:
- The Current Status Page answers the question "Is Freecell Solver dead?".
- Several new items were added to the "To Do List" page. It now also features a table of contents.
- There is now a page about Giving or Getting Academic Credit for working on Freecell Solver.
4-Oct-2003
There is now PySol Integration with Freecell Solver available here. This enables receiving hints from Freecell Solver and seeing demos of it while within PySol.
28-Sep-2002
Freecell Solver 2.8.0 has been released. This version features a better documentation and help screens, a preset system, and an option to read paramters from files. Plus, it is possible to run one instance of the solver after the other in case the other one has returned a negative verdict.
All in all: a lot of added usability!
12-Jul-2002
Freecell Solver 2.6.0 has been spotted in the wild. This version features atomic moves, which are slower than the traditional ones, but guarantee a true verdict. It also has a --prelude switch that allows running a static order of quotas at start for the participating soft threads, and makes constructing faster solving presets easier.
Several other flags were added, and the code has also been greatly optimized and cleaned up, which makes Freecell Solver much faster than it was before.
Previous News Items
Links
- Freecell.org - a web-site dedicated to the game.
- Michael Keller's Freecell site - contains the Freecell FAQ and other stuff.
- FC-Pro - a Freecell implementation for Windows which gives a choice of several solvers, including Freecell Solver.
- An unsolvable instance of Freecell - why not all possible initial Freecell boards can be solved.
- Justin-Heyes Jones' A* page - a page about the A* scan.
- patsolve - a program by Dr. Tom Holroyd that solves Freecell and Seahaven Towers games. There are some fundamental differences between its architecture and that of Freecell Solver, so it might be worthwhile to take a look.
- Freecell Solver's Freshmeat App-Index Record
- Freecell Solver's Mailing-List (at YahooGroups).
- A Presentation about Freecell Solver