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advisedwang: Per [1] (found via wikipedia) 35% is possible![1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210924183919/https://www.aaai....

reenorap: Isn't 8.5% low?My mom didn't use the computer much except she did play solitaire on her Windows laptop all the time. She had over a 2000 game win streak until she got dementia and stopped using the computer altogether.

fishtoaster: Winning 2000 games in a row sounds statistically unlikely unless the Windows version of solitaire does something behind the scenes to make the game more winnable.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)#Probabili...

InitialLastName: I suspect that the later (Win 7+) versions of Windows solitaire (and minesweeper, for that matter) did, in fact, cull the unwinnable games.

jasperry: I don't know of any algorithm to cull non-winnable Klondike games. Playing deal-1 instead of deal-3, and with unlimited flipping of the stock, the win chance is probably close to 50%, but that still makes 2000 in a row statistically impossible.My guess is that the poster's mom was actually playing FreeCell, in which nearly every game is winnable and people do get streaks like that.

bluedino: The current version, you can play on 'Easy', I think my kindergartner wins all his games on that setting.

dezgeg: Could there be mixup with FreeCell?