Today’s solitaire: Nestor. Solitaire win rates says chances of winning are 22% for humans, 59% for machines, solitairewinrates.com/Nestor.html. Hoyle’s puts it at 10%. Lots of look ahead required. This is a good one to practice planning.

Today’s solitaire: Adaman. Another one using the Decktet. Rules here: wiki.decktet.com/game:adaman. Either I have not figured out the trick to this, or it is quite difficult.

Today’s solitaire (another one): Accordion. Hoyle’s says 1 in 100 chance in solving, but solitaire win rates says it’s 100% solvable: solitairewinrates.com/Accordion.html, every time. The difference seems to be Hoyle’s didn’t contemplate dealing the entire deck before beginning to move cards.

Today’s Solitaire: Jacynth. This uses the Decktet and I am not sure the chances/difficulty. Rules here: wiki.decktet.com/game:jacynth. Plenty of challenge with what feels like well balanced risk.

Today’s Solitaire: Clock. Hoyle’s says chances are 1 in 100. Solitairewinrates.com says 1 in 13. Regardless, much like time, you are not control. Good for mediation, not so much for solving anything. Not sure I would recommend.

Today’s Solitaire: Bowling Solitaire from Sid Sackson’s book: A Gamut of Games. This solitaire plays great and can be expanded to multiple players in the same way bowling can. I highly recommend this creative implementation of the physics of bowling with cards.

Today’s Solitaire: Baker’s Dozen. First published in 1883, Hoyle’s puts the win rate at 2/3. Building up and down off the tableaus regardless of suit or color certainly makes for many possible solutions. The large amount of tableaus also benefits from smaller cards. Overall, a little too simple.

Today’s Solitaire: Poker Solitaire. This one is distinct in that it is not an attempt to solve, it is an attempt to get the most points. I definitely recommend, despite the low amount of points I scored in my initial attempts.

Today’s solitaire: Fortress and its variant Chessboard. Hoyle’s puts the win rate of Fortress at 10%, Solvitaire says 20% solitairewinrates.com/Fortress.html, Chessboard is 73%. These are the most difficult games yet. Chessboard is great practice for finding a path forward, definitely recommend.

Todays’s Solitaire: Aces Up (Other names: Aces High). First recorded in 1900, Wikipedia says 1/43 win rate, Hoyle’s Rules of Games says 1/10, Solvitaire appears to have a win rate close to Hoyle’s. solitairewinrates.com/AcesUp.html. Felt very luck based, not sure I would recommend

Today’s solitaire: Canfield (other names: Demon). First recorded in 1891, Wikipedia says low probability of winning, Hoyle’s Rules of Games says 1/30, but Solvitaire appears to have a win rate of over 60%. solitairewinrates.com/Canfield.html Classic structure, seemed hard to win, would recommend