What are some other solitaires closely related to FreeCell?
In the brief section on history, we mentioned Baker’s Game, the in-suit relative of FreeCell, as well as much older predecessors like Eight Off. Baker’s Game and FreeCell are the two most interesting games, in my view, since they allow any card to be moved to an empty column, so that the emphasis is on building sequences on the tableau, rather than moving cards to foundations as quickly as possible. But two other modern variants of Eight Off are also worth mentioning: (1) Seahaven Towers, invented by Art Cabral, which resembles Eight Off, except that there are ten columns of five cards each, with the two remaining cards dealt into two of the four available depots (freecells). This first appeared as a Macintosh game, but versions for Windows (and probably other platforms) are easy to find. Don Woods’ solver estimates the win rate to be slightly over 89%. Mark E. Masten has confirmed this with a run of 15 million deals, with 13,397,816 wins (89.32%) out of 15 million. Much of the game’s
