There are several ways one might go about constructing a difficult hand: Rather I wanna discuss how easy it is for Microsoft to construct “easy” or “difficult” hands. I will not discuss the strategy in detail. A player who chooses Grandmaster difficulty can’t say he wasn’t warned! In fact I have no problem with the game being “rigged” if the player knows in advance the cards are not properly shuffled(in math terms we say a properly shuffled deck has 104! possible permutations of starting hands, ignoring equivalence of identical cards, and each permutation is equally likely). In defence of Microsoft, they explicitly made it clear that the player will face a difficult challenge to win without boop. It is not clear if arranging three of a kind on nearly every round is an effective way to make the game harder (maybe the permutation of face-down cards in the tableau is also relevant) but it does suggest Microsoft is trying. In contrast three of a kind never occurred in any round of the Expert hand. Then again, I did ask for Grandmaster difficulty. This reeks of a cold deck – if you’ve ever played late-night poker with some dodgy folk in the neighbourhood then you’ll know what I’m talking about. Moreover, two of these turnovers are suited – but problems appear later.Īfter a promising initial deal it’s trips galore in almost every round. Round 0 looks promising with 4 turnovers (the average should be a tad under 4). Ninja Monkey’s Guaranteed Minimum Evaluation Score algorithm yields a win rate of 4/50 on the Expert but 0/50 on the Master and Grandmaster hands. I briefly entertained some miracle hopes on the Grandmaster hand, but quickly came crashing down to earth if you excuse the terrible cliché. I easily won an Expert hand, but bombed the Master hand. With the pandemic not going away any time soon, I thought now is a good time to play three more hands of Spider Solitaire on my PC, choosing difficulty levels of Expert, Master and Grandmaster (while also honing my writing skills!).
#Grandmaster solitaire microsoft software#
The classic Microsoft Spider Solitaire software gives a Four-suit expert player a choose between Expert, Master, Grandmaster or Random hand.
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