Here's a screenshot of KPatience for KDE 3.5 side-by-side with the fresh port to KDE 4: It was re-written in 2000 by Stephan Kulow and has since been rewritten quite a few times. KPatience was originally written in 1995 by Paul Olav Tvete. This makes KPatience quite useful for learning new solitaire games which you can later play with a real card deck while you're stuck in a winter cabin or similar situations. You can easily access it in the Help menu. KPatience comes with a handbook which contains all the information you need to play the various solitaire games included even if you never hard of them before. The Solver can also provide guidance by declaring "this game is no longer winnable." Then I back up one move and try a different move. Then it can complete the game and show how it is won. At some point it may declare the game "winnable". On the harder deals one can proceed one move at a time and wait for the Solver to analyze the situation. At any point it can be stopped and backed up so the method of solution is obvious. It will play out these "winnable" deals at a slow enough pace so it can be observed. Third, there is a Solver that will find a solution to the easier deals. In the last 1000 deals of 2-suit Spider I have won all of them or the Solver declared it "winnable." Second, the KPat version of the Spider game is a "Relaxed" version, that is, it allows for dealing a new row when there is an empty space in the tableau (a blank column). And you can discuss a particular deal of the game by just referring to the deal number. This allows the same deal of the game to be replayed without having saved it. The modern Kpatience version is made for KDE Plasma 5.įirst, all the games are started with a deal number, more than 2 billion in all. These games were, sadly, lost sometime during the porting of kpatience and the "KDE games" package from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4. Kpatience v2.2.2 had two games the modern version does not have: Napoleon's Tomb and CalculationĮarlier versions of Kpatience had two addition games: Napoleon's Tomb and Calculation.
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