Solitaire Rush

[Renaldo Moon]

How do you top players score 1,840+?

I've gotten 1,810-1,830 a couple times, but that was with some lucky layouts and some mentally exhausting speed. How do you do it? Is a touch-monitor required to finish the games in under 40 seconds like that?

[priji]

It's just like the Klondike solitaire you've been playing on your computer for years, except now it's enhanced by the thrill of competition! two popular variations, 1-Card Draw and 3-Card Draw.
http://www.solitairecentral.com/onli...taireRush.html

[3gb]

Yeah, reaching the mark above 1840 is kinda strange and i think it involves something more than the normal game. can anyone help us with this ?

[yourmate]

hello guys, i saw someone mentioning about Klondike solitaire. I wanted to run it in my sony ericsson, can anybody guide me where to buy it from legally? I have always made good(not too good though) and appreciable scores on my PC.

[webroot]

I know a blackhat method to reach the top score.
If you use Firefox Browser you can do this.
Try getting TamperData- a firefox plugin. Once you finished the game start TamperData, you'll get an option to edit the high score.

[houseofpwncakes]

Hey everyone! I'm pretty good at solitaire, ww is where I primarily play. If you're a member of the premier club there, I posted a sort of tutorial of how I get my high scores. I'd copy and paste that here, but I'm currently banned so I can't see my own posts. But here are some videos of me playing, and if anyone would like to challenge me for free--or money, whatever-- on ww, I can videotape how I play the challenge out and post the video for you. I kind of want to train an SR apprentice lol, so anyone who truly wants to get better at the game, let me know and I'd be more than happy to work with you!

YouTube - Solitaire Rush--1869

That was a video of me scoring 1869.

YouTube - SR game bug

On that one, technically I got an 1888 (I made this video to demonstrate an error in the new SR that ww was denying the existence of), but I only played an 1850s range game. Still not a bad score on the new, crappy version.

[bmy1]

Hey Amy. I'm ok at SR but i am just not as fast as you speedsters! Just to give you an idea, my high in the old version of SR was 1837. My high in the new version which I find slower is about 1830. I find the dragging motion to be somewhat slower and laggy sometimes. Maybe it's just me.

I'm not sure but I think I'm just slower than you folks with my mouse. I find the dragging actions difficult and I often "miss" or slip on my drags. For instance, with freecell, where all you have to do is "click", my high is 2278.

I'm not great at golf solitaire, but I've scored a 1763 before and my top 10 are all over 1750. As you probably know, the top few players use the keyboard shortcuts but there are some folks like lurker who can score in the 1780's and 1790's with a mouse.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[houseofpwncakes]

Hey bmy1! I think I've seen you post in ww forums, you're a scrabble cubes genius, along with meat and rahnny, right? So you're obviously a smart guy(?), but still, SC isn't a speed game, whereas SR is. If your high in the old/good version of SR was an 1837, that's good since it means you know how to successfully complete a hand and it won't take you all 6 minutes lol. And with the new/pewpy SR, no, it's not just you that experiences that slow and laggy feeling. There's not a lot you can do about that, but there is one trick that you may or may not that can shave a LOT of time off your score once you get used to it. If you already know, then this is useless, but you can right-click on cards instead of using the double-click. Some that I have talked to don't think they can get used to this, but this bumped my speed up (and not to be arrogant, but I was never really a slow player) by about 10 seconds.

Another tip for SR that I can give you might be a might debatable, depending on who you talk to. Imo, if you can move a card up to the foundation, do it every time unless you distinctly recall a move where you would need to play that card, if that makes any sense. Like if I'm playing in a 25-player tournament, and I can move a certain suit up to a 9, I'll do it. But this is NOT ALWAYS the best choice, and it can and very likely will make the difference between winning and losing a hand. For an example, 2 SR survivals ago, I made it to the final round playing my way, and that won me $1000. But in the final round, I hit flamingonapper, who plays more conservatively than I do, and my style lost me that final prize. My method won me the last survival final round against her, although it was very close, but ultimately I do better. Overall, in tournaments with 20+ overall slots available, I say make every move you can. Yes, there will be some times when a game that scores you 300 will give another player an 1800 score, but they aren't making several thousand a month. I am.

And if you are questioning whether to play a hand conservatively or my bull in a china shop style lol, sometimes you can guess based off when you enter a tournament. Like if I enter a 32-player and 20 people have played, and I see someone who plays like I do has entered 5 times and THEN had the winning board, I might play the first 4 boards differently than I would usually. As a result, I may get a great score that I would not have received had I played normally. But at the same time, if I play round 5 my way, it's very possible that I may outscore this person by 10-20 points.

I have no idea if this makes sense or not lol, so please feel free to reply on here or PM me for my IM name or whatever if you want more detail. And again, I am willing to play as many free challenges as you want and videotape how I play that identical (theoretically) hand for comparison.

Good luck!

[bmy1]

Hey Amy. I'm no scrabble-cubes genius. I do ok but I'm not as good as rahnnyboy or meathook or a couple others there.

Thanks for the tips on SR. I had no idea about the right-click function. I think that would help immensely (well... 5-10 seconds in a good situation) because like I said, I find the double-click function "sticks" a lot and sometimes when I try to bring a card from the "clicking pile" (obv I have no idea about the proper terminology lol) to the foundation it takes a couple tries.

Also, I've seen you move up the midas solitaire ranks at King, and as you know, it's a different ballgame there since in the progressives you get exactly the same setup 5 times in a row if you re-enter the max number of times. I did well for a while there but once I hit the 6,000 to 8,000 ranks I kind of got stuck there. I actually almost made it to 8,000 but I kept missing the payouts in the progressives so my rank dropped a bit.

I have a better understanding of what you mention re: moving cards to the foundation and I do employ the same strategy in the only SR games I play on WW - survival and ladder. I didn't do well in the survival but despite my lousy speed, I was able to crack the top 25 by using creative ways to get more cards to the foundation. Sometimes I would even take cards back OUT of the foundation so that I could take another card from the "clicking" pile if it meant uncovering a new card in the bottom columns of cards.

I am currently in div 2 at WW and I tried playing a few times in the dailies and the 50-cent special but I was not able to put up good enough scores to place... yet I didn't get moved down either I think my highest score in 20-30 tries overall was about 1820-1825. The SR open tourneys are so frustrating since I find a lot of the boards are not "finishable" and so basically you waste an entry fee on a garbage board. This is a problem I find with SR as opposed to pretty much any other game where the spread between a "good" board and a "bad" board isn't quite as pronounced.

[houseofpwncakes]

Eep! Sorry for taking so long to reply. *embarassed face*

Have you played around with the right-click trick at all? If so, how's it working for you?

Yeah the double-click on the new SR is a massive failure, I've had a few games where it will not work at all. And ww refuses to acknowledge, let alone fix this glitch. I've had to click literally 20+ times on a card before to get it to move. But again, according to ww, this is somehow all my fault. I don't know the proper terminology for different card groups either lol, but do you notice that you have more trouble moving the cards from right to left than you do from left to right?

Midas Solitaire? Uh-oh, are you stalking me on king? :P But I was in the top 40 for awhile. Do/did you play on there? According to the site, all U.S. players are currently banned from all cash card games--hearts still shows up regularly, who knows why, so any advice I may have on that is out the window.

Players that are not necessarily "elite" or very fast in SR on ww can do pretty well in survivals, since they tend to play differently than the top tier does, and thus those games that are losing for the top ranked players can be winners for other players. Congrats on the top 25! About you moving cards out of the foundation because you think you can see a move or two in advance is an excellent strategy in tournaments like survivals and 5-players. Again, that's how you might win what I would call a bad board. I would just end a hand most of the time, 'cause of cost-benefit analysis. In a small competition, my ability to acknowledge that I will lose a hand faster than my opponent has wins games for me. Like I'm in round 12 of the SR survival now, and I have only won 2 hands. BUT, your strategy is a lot smarter. In bigger tournaments, removing a card from the top is typically useless. Be liberal with the cards! :P

Ww likes to ho people in the dailies, and would probably not bump you down unless you manages to lose thousands of tournaments in a row. But even then, one win would knock you back up lol.

You're right about open tournaments. Most boards are NOT finishable. Ww claims that all boards are winnable--imo this is pure crap, if I get a score of 10, it's usually not because I made a mistake, it'st just a bad board--but even if they are all winnable, they are not all defeatable with a good score. And on the same note, an important delineation to make between SR and other games is that in SR, you can't really get a "lucky" board. I could suck at bj2 and never be able to score about 1,000, but I could get a great board, blow it up, and get 10,000. SR, you can't do that. That's why the difference is so pronounced, as you put it.

Bmy, if you want to PM me on here for my e-mail addy about any SR tips or whatever, or again, if you want me to tape challenges, let me know.