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Eight Off Strategy: Give Every Parked Card a Way Out

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Play one real Eight Off deal twice for twenty moves: once by asking where each parked card will go next, and once by following the Hint button. See why every card has one place in the columns, when a cell is worth spending, and how the hinted game runs out of cells and loses.

Follow one real Eight Off deal for twenty moves, asking before each move where a card can go next. Because you build down in suit with a single deck, every card has exactly one place in the columns, so a parked card needs a known way back out.

The planned game names the exit for each card it puts into a cell and finishes with eight cards on the foundations and four empty cells. The same deal is then played by following the Hint button: it fills six cells with cards that cannot leave soon, and its next suggestion loses. Every board claim was checked against the Cards4 game engine.

Chapters

  1. 0:00 Ask where each card can go
  2. 0:38 Start with the cards that have a place
  3. 1:19 Build the hearts together
  4. 1:53 Spend a cell only with a way out
  5. 2:41 Count what a cell buys
  6. 3:35 Give the King a column
  7. 4:01 Let the Hint choose
  8. 5:11 Count the ways out
  9. 6:10 Compare the two games

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