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Speaking of FreeCell, a couple weeks ago I was visiting my 95yr-old grandmother and noticed she still plays oldschool FreeCell, specifically a variant that's really hard to track down now called FreeCell Pro [https://cards.fandom.com/wiki/FreeCell_Pro]

It inspired a weekend project. I always liked that you could swap the card backs in OG FreeCell and play with different "themed" decks, so I vibecoded something a little more modern. I got carried away and added a roguelite mode too (yeah I know how "Roguelite FreeCell" sounds). Anyway, it's free to play on the web, no ads: [https://freecellworlds.com/]

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Solitaire's Journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire%27s_Journey

Basically a 1992 rogue-lite where each room is a different solitaire game. eg: front parlor == clock solitaire, first bedroom == regular solitaire, upstairs is blocked by freecell, etc...

Screenshots: https://www.mobygames.com/game/1986/solitaires-journey/scree...

It's a fairly rich concept, you have a ton of different gameplay bound together by a very loose plot/quest mechanisms (eg: blue key == blue door ; boss == win 2 games of solitaire).

Definitely worth sharing if you've got some solitaire fans in your life!

Wow this is amazing! I love this bit from the Wikipedia article:

"In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Solitaire's Journey the 72nd-best computer game ever released."

The bar has moved up a tad I think :D

I played a lot of FCPro back in the 1990s. As noted at the link, it had more possible games, automated stack movement if you had enough free spaces, had unlimited undo/redo, and had solvers (that could either solve it for you, or just tell you that a solution was still possible - the latter was immensely helpful in letting me get better at the game).

Is there a but or maybe I don't know the rules. Sometimes I can't put a long sequence J 10 9 8 7 ... on a Q

Yeah classic FreeCell only lets you move one card at a time. No stacks. A lot of FreeCell implementations have a QoL feature that let you move stacks if there's enough free cells or empty columns to allow the move.

Ah I see, I get it now.

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