Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%

• 1.0

• Very basic play using s2g, b2g, b2b, s2b only.

• No effort to using smart alternatives.

• For example | 9♠︎ | and | 9♣︎ | are both playable on | 10♥︎ |, but nothing but first encounter will choose one over the other.

• 1.1

• Play is the same as 1.0, but deck shuffling can be repeatable via the seed parameter.

• 1.2

• Play changed from {s2g, b2g, b2b, s2b} to {s2g, b2b, b2g, s2b} sequencing. Winning percentage increased from 7.915% to 8.590%.

• run ant

• Using Apache Ant to build project with default build.xml.

• Targets are "clean" and "compile.java". Default runs both.

• Using Apache Ant to build project with default build.xml.

• run java -jar simulator.jar

• usage: [--one|--three] [--attempts #] [--debug] [--seed #]

--one

: Turn only one card each play.--three

: Turn three cards each play.--attempts

: Number of games to attempt.--debug

: Verbose output about each game.--seed

: Random seed for repeatable play.

• For example: java -jar simulator.jar --three --attempts 10 --seed 1111 > debug.out 2> debug.err

• Run java with the simulator jar.

• Turn three cards for each turn.

• Play ten games.

• Shuffle the deck starting with the seed 1111.

• Write standard output to debug.out.

• Only winning games will be output.

• Write standard error to debug.err.

• Without the debug switch, only errors will be output. With debug, all games are output.

• usage:

• run java -jar simulator.jar --three --attempts 1000000 --seed 1111

to determine your success rate verses the current record.- One million games takes less than an hour (without debug) on M2 MacBook Air.

• |•A♦︎•|: Ace of Diamonds face down.

• | A♦︎ |: Ace of Diamonds face up.

• b2b: from Board to Board

• b2g: from Board to Goal

• g2b: from Goal to Board

• s2b: from Stack to Board

• s2g: from Stack to Goal

Output from a no parameter run:

`usage: [--one|--three] [--attempts #] [--debug] [--seed #] --one: Turn only one card each play. --three: Turn three cards each play. --attempts: Number of games to attempt. --debug: Verbose output about each game. --seed: Random seed for repeatable play. running: turn 3 cards and 10 attempts without debug without a seed Game 0 of 10 Game 1 of 10 Game 2 of 10 Game 3 of 10 Game 4 of 10 Game 5 of 10 Game 6 of 10 Game 7 of 10 Game 8 of 10 ================== WINNER ================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ Ready to Play ~~~~~~~~~ ====================== === Goal ============= ====================== === Board ============ | A♣︎ |