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Patience Parlour
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Every numbered deal is the same for every player, so you can replay one, compare times with a friend or come back to the one that beat you.

How the deals were chosen

For each game that our solver can handle, deal #1 is the first shuffle the solver wins, deal #2 the next, and so on. The solver sees every card, including the face-down ones, and its winning line is replayed move by move before a deal is accepted. So every deal marked as checked can be won, though often not by the obvious moves.

Forty Thieves and four-suit Spider are beyond the solver's reach, so their deals are not checked. We describe those from their opening layout and from a simple test play that always takes the most promising move.

Each deal has a difficulty within its own series: gentle, steady, testing or formidable. It comes from how much searching the solver needed, the length of its winning line and how far the simple test play got.