Is every solitaire deal winnable??

Question

uh, anything to really back those up? thanks. :)

Answer 1

If you play draw 1, yes, every deal is winnable

If you play draw 3, no, not every deal is winnable

Answer 2

No

Answer 3

yup, but you have to be really good to win every time.

Answer 4

No.  Take for example if you were to deal all read face cards as the visible cards, and then all that was in the deck happened to be 2-9 cards.  This is obviously a very unlikely scenario, but there are plenty of other scenarios where the hand is unwinnable as well.

Check out this site:

http://www.techuser.net/klondikeprob.htm...

Answer 5

There are many types of solitaire games.

You probably mean "Klondike" Solitaire, which is the form you can find on all computers running Windows, called simply "Solitaire".

For a "standard" game of Klondike (of the form: Draw 3, Re-Deal Infinite, Win 52) the number of solvable games is between 82-91.5%. The number of unplayable games is 0.025% and the number of games that cannot be won is between 8.5-18%.

So roughly one or two of every ten games are unsolvable, depending on the game options (draw one or three cards etc.) .