How to play?Īs with most other patience and solitaire games, the player starts with a shuffled deck and must sort the cards from aces to kings for each suit separately. Since then, FreeCell remains famous for the fact that for any randomly shuffled card deal, the game is almost certainly solvable. The project lasted almost a year and indicated that only one of the card deals was unsolvable. There was an attempt in 1994 to solve all of the 32,000 card deals. In that version there were 32,000 different card deals available. Although available in earlier version of system Windows, FreeCell gained much of its popularity when it was distributed with Windows 95. Alfille also created a first FreeCell Solitaire video game in 1978.
The game was invented by Paul Alfille as a modification of an older game. The name of the game, FreeCell, comes from the four free cells in the top-left corner of the game board which can be used to temporarily store cards. Important shortcut keys Toggle full screen:
