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''Free Cell'' is the solitaire card game that Paul Alfille introduced to the PLATO system in 1978. Jim Horne, at Microsoft, changed the name to ''FreeCell'' and reimplemented the game for [[DOS]], then [[Windows]]. This version introduced 32000 numbered deals.
As the game became popular, Jim Horne disclosed [http://www.solitairelaboratory.com/mshuffle.txt the algorithm], and other implementations of FreeCell began to reproduce the Microsoft deals. These deals are numbered from 1 to 32000.
The algorithm uses this [[linear congruential generator]] from Microsoft C:
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The algorithm follows:
# Seed the RNG with
#
# Perform a shuffle ''(MISSING instructions)''
# Deal all 52 cards, face up, across 8 columns. The first 8 cards go in 8 columns, the next 8 cards go on the first 8 cards, and so on.
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Deals can be checked against [http://freecellgamesolutions.com/ FreeCell solutions to 1000000 games]. (Summon a video solution, and it displays the deal.)▼
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
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▲Deals can be checked against [http://freecellgamesolutions.com/ FreeCell solutions to 1000000 games]. (Summon a video solution, and it displays the initial deal.)
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