return to Solitaire Laboratory home page
FreeCell -- General Information and Index of Solutions
compiled by Michael Keller, based on earlier lists by Dave Ring and Wilson Callan.
Copyright ©2007 by Michael Keller. All rights reserved.
This file was revised on November 30, 2007.
Lists of difficult (and some easy) deals.
Frequently Asked Questions and Links.
Novice player? Read the tutorial and go step-by-step through a
winning game, or try some easy deals.
Get Freecell Pro, our FreeCell program with built-in solver (all
solutions on the catalog page were found by humans.)
If you cannot find the answer to your FreeCell questions on this site, please send e-mail
to Michael Keller.
Tips and Tricks for Microsoft FreeCell: Using the keyboard
only, cheating the statistics (good for mantaining your wins/losses statistics when you've
selected a wrong game), keeping two sets of statistics, or transferring statistics using
Windows 95.
Index of solutions in the catalog (426 different deals; notation is explained below). The catalog is in five sections; the
solutions are in numerical order. Scroll down or use your browser's Find command
(usually Ctl-F) to find the exact solution you want:
1-10, 21, 63, 68, 76, 86, 92, 96, 110, 123, 169, 170, 178, 190,
194, 237, 258, 285, 322, 385, 454, 518, 527, 575, 598, 617, 657, 669, 693, 718, 723, 770,
792, 798, 828, 829, 846, 865, 868, 877, 901, 912, 915, 1025, 1072, 1136, 1150, 1256, 1285,
1314, 1381, 1445, 1483, 1652, 1689, 1734, 1941, 2021, 2081,
2240, 2350, 2405, 2577, 2607, 2670, 2772, 2884, 2902, 3099, 3112, 3199, 3202, 3285, 3289,
3294, 3328, 3342, 3349, 3393, 3426, 3467, 3631, 3685, 3699, 3772, 3788, 3801, 3973, 4074,
4089, 4257, 4368, 4467, 4518, 4538, 4540, 4556, 4560, 4591, 4609, 4714, 4794, 4813, 4946,
5179, 5225, 5265, 5374, 5412, 5453, 5468, 5482, 5490, 5548, 5557, 5851, 5979, 6182, 6240,
6247, 6343, 6505, 6581, 6589, 6673, 6693, 6745, 6751, 6768, 6775, 6801, 6834, 6918, 7000,
7107, 7160, 7239, 7303, 7305, 7354, 7477, 7485, 7600, 7660,
7700, 7825, 7851, 8005, 8122, 8323, 8354, 8454, 8591, 8652, 8678, 8711, 8726, 8732, 8749,
8811, 8820, 9209, 9250, 9385, 9457, 9538, 9617, 9700, 9718, 9787, 9830, 9885, 10302,
10509, 10589, 10623, 10660, 10692, 11114, 11150, 11281, 11386, 11409, 11430, 11677, 11767,
11854, 11873, 11987, 12211, 12220, 12249, 12271, 12277, 12286, 12313, 12319, 12330, 12384,
12795, 12949, 13007, 13015, 13228, 13304, 13388, 13506, 13550, 13551, 13583, 13584, 13612,
13752, 13765, 13867, 13996, 14051, 14070, 14084, 14133, 14188, 14262, 14548, 14580, 14621,
14666, 14676, 14759, 14795, 14879, 14965, 14977, 15023, 15099,
15130, 15133, 15164, 15227, 15238, 15377, 15396, 15512, 15562, 15710, 15746, 15905, 15939,
16129, 16191, 16202, 16508, 16575, 16576, 16768, 17277, 17426, 17467, 17524, 17680, 17683,
17708, 17764, 17768, 17863, 17985, 18446, 18492, 18512, 18623, 18872, 18906, 18992, 19146,
19152, 19410, 19425, 19431, 19444, 19482, 19484, 19497, 19590, 19626, 19633, 19763, 19837,
19861, 19880, 20055, 20251, 20411, 20418, 20426, 20547, 20581, 20589, 20630, 20703, 20715,
20830, 20873, 20912, 21042, 21051, 21185, 21262, 21278, 21283, 21322, 21365, 21491, 21587,
21785, 21896, 21899, 21927, 21944, 21954, 21969, 21998, 22245, 22304, 22332, 22369, 22373,
22574, 22907, 23017, 23190, 23216, 23219, 23444, 23910, 24063,
24104, 24165, 24225, 24457, 24549, 24735, 25122, 25123, 25129, 25146, 25155, 25293, 25315,
25351, 25424, 25450, 25558, 25599, 25602, 25656, 25790, 25856, 25995, 26061, 26093, 26183,
26194, 26197, 26369, 26421, 26478, 26567, 26576, 26693, 26694, 26710, 27006, 27117, 27188,
28118, 28330, 29001, 29128, 29154, 29176, 29198, 29230, 29345, 29462, 29596, 29664, 29691,
29704, 30000, 30008, 30057, 30108, 30256, 30394, 30615, 30647, 30663, 30712, 30801, 30952,
31044, 31235, 31266, 31302, 31465, 31601, 31627, 31631, 31647, 31713, 31729, 31749, 31793,
31816, 31918, 31938, 31945, 31984
Free cells (upper row, left side) are named (left to right) a, b, c, d.
Home (upper row, right) is h.
Initial columns (lower row, left to right) are named 1 through 8.
Example Moves:
1. Column one to column three: 13
2. Second freecell (b) to column five: b5
3. Column 4 to first (leftmost) freecell: 4a
4. Third freecell to home: ch
etc.
Read moves line by line, 10 per line.
Automatic moves to homecells (those that the program makes) are not shown.
All moves to empty columns are column moves rather than single card moves. A single card
move to a column can be shown as, e.g. 68(1), but this kind of move is extremely rare and
does not appear in any of the catalog solutions.
A note has been added to some of the solutions noting how many tries each took to solve.
The solutions are in numerical order. If you don't like to scroll down, use your find
command.
These are solutions to the standard Microsoft Windows FreeCell version; they also work for
FreeCell Pro and a few other programs which use the same numbering system. Most
FreeCell programs (NetCELL, Pretty Good Solitaire, etc.) use a completely different set of
deals.
To check your version against ours make sure that your game #11982 looks like this:
AH AS 4H AC 2D 6S TS JS
3D 3H QS QC 8S 7H AD KS
KD 6H 5S 4D 9H JH 9S 3C
JC 5D 5C 8C 9D TD KH 7C
6C 2C TH QH 6D TC 4S 7S
JD 7D 8H 9C 2H QD 4C 5H
KC 8D 2S 3S
OR, if you dont want to mess up your statistics, just play out game #1
via the solution in the catalog.