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Show HN: Impossible Solitaire

by martinmakesgame on 11/3/21, 3:36 AM with 5 comments

• by martinmakesgame on 11/3/21, 3:37 AM

  Hello Everyone,

  I was playing a game of solitaire one afternoon and got very close to sorting all of the suits. When I play solitaire I think about how the game is an elaborate kind of sorting algorithm and I think about what the conditions may be that place the game into a deadlocked state.

  I wanted to share my experience of playing this particular game of solitaire with others. I've included a secret in the game that represents what happened in the actual game I was playing.

  I ended up laughing after realising what had happened.

  I've designed Impossible Solitaire for practising a particular skill. That skill is enjoying the process rather than focusing on the end goal. I feel it's important to remember to enjoy what happens regardless of what the outcome is and I wanted to share an opportunity to practise this in the form of a game.

  Thanks

• by josephcsible on 11/3/21, 4:44 AM

  This game needs to run as an application with the full privileges of my user account, rather than in a browser or something else safe, I can't audit it since it isn't open source, and you don't seem established enough to have a reputation. Why would I trust this?

• by sova on 11/3/21, 4:02 AM

  nice but why comic sans