Spider (solitaire) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now the truth can be told: I’m battling an addiction to Spider Solitaire, which I find both oddly compelling and relaxing.

Behold teh evul!

Dude, you need to deal. Also, you haven’t cleared any “tableaux” (ace through king of one of two suits) and you only have 2 hands left. You won’t be assured of winning until you clear at least 4 tableaux, out of a possible 8 in a 2-suit game. Don’t obsess about “wasted” moves as described in the Wikipedia article; if you want to win, you WANT to have an empty rank so that you can move more cards around and open up more opportunities to put cards in descending order by suit. And sometimes, it’s better to move
a card to the next higher card of a different suit, if it means you’ll get to flip a card or two up. I can say this, because I generally win about 1 in 4 game of Spider.

I can win every Free Cell game, though. They’re all winnable; the secret there is to not load up too many cards into the free cells unless you’ve got an “out” for all of them with your available moves.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the news, of course, it’s just been really busy at work lately, and when I get home, I feel like vegging out rather than blogging.

Also, many of my favorite television shows have either just ended excellent half-seasons (Stargate, Atlantis) or are about to end their first season (EUReKA)

And several shows have recently returned after a summer off, such as Bones, Criminal Minds, NCIS, various flavors of CSI, and TAR10.

Tonight, instead of going out to a movie (not sure what’s playing), we decided to avoid possible crappy weather and watch the second season premiere of Doctor Who (two episodes!) and the season premiere of Numb3rs.

Yes, we have lives and other activities, of course we do. It’s just that we like to relax with a little computer game or two or three or four, and watch our many shows.