Playing cards

     You are under extreme stress. You have a few hours after the exam and a few hours before the next. You know no letters would make any sense to you, and that you'd prefer sleeping or doing anything else but study. You turn your laptop on, wondering if there is something new that you can do. Your obvious choice is the Internet. The place you can read, write, play games, or watch movies. A place nothing restricts whatever you were to do.

A scene from Solitaire 1 suit

     That is the prologue - how I got to know this game. Solitaire 1 suit. The sole goal of this game is to stack the cards in the right order. K-Q-J-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-A. Eight stacks. The cards were shuffled, and like The Tower of Hanoi, they could not be moved to be stalked against the order.

     The winning strategy of the game is seemingly simple - create all the piles of cards to be in order so that every card set would be in order always, ready to be put into combinations. Yet this method does not work in all cases. In fact, it is the easiest way for you to lose in this game. The ironic thing is that the best tactic is to put all possible cards in order but make the stacks if possible. And in this way, it is necessary to destroy the previously organized order of cards.

     Of course, if lucky, the player has no need to make extra movements to make the stacks be in order. Yet the tendency is that in order to get a higher score, it is better to break what was previously accomplished. Nothing is ever guaranteed to come in order. Not only the sequence of random cards, but life events are also randomly given out. But if they are all put behind so that they could be handled later, it is more likely that they are lost before they can be seized.

A chance is like a flying bird.

Spinoza