Klondike

Emma and I have played Klondike together quite a lot since summer, so much than couple of weeks ago our Klondike enthusiasm reminded an addiction. Emma won this game. About 9/10 of our games are lost.

About 79% of the games are theoretically winnable, but people do not win 79% of the games they start because they make a wrong move somewhere and lose the game prematurely. The issue is that a wrong move cannot be known in advance whenever more than one move is possible. The number of games a player can probabilistically expect to win is at least 43%. In addition, some games are unplayable in which no cards can be moved to the foundations even at the start of the game; these occur in only 0.025% of hands dealt


Today it's 20 years since the Estonia tragedy. It is hard to believe it happened that long time ago, I remember that horrible day so well. Nobody could imagine that a ferry could sink, and moreover, to sink that fast.

It took quite a long time before I traveled by a ferry after the disaster.


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