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Microsoft Uncovered - Solitaire is rigged! watch!

feesh.nonlogic.org — When you play solitaire, you may some times wonder, "what if the game is actively cheating, to prevent me from winning?". You may disregard these thoughts as 'paranoid', but the whole thing has been uncovered. Whilst playing a simple game of solitaire, it soon became apparent that there was infact two 6 of hearts cards and no 6 of diamonds!

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  • spartan018, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9i've had this happen to me a few times, although only on my tablet pc, which has some mouse gestures software installed that can create some pretty crazy glitches in a bunch of programs, including solitaire. i wouldn't go so far as to called solitaire "rigged", but it definately needs to be rewritten to fix these glitches that have popped up over the years.
    • miznig, on 10/12/2007, -18/+33people play that??!!!
    • gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -9/+43It's called a bug, and I'm surprised people insist that it's cheating.

      I've never had that issue happen with me, ever.
    • compwizz, on 10/12/2007, -29/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
    • Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -10/+68a bug in a Microsoft application???

      .... how shocking....
    • gremlinchief, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I've had a similar thing happen to me - when it was apparent that I couldn't win, I decided to randomly click cards until the three of clubs disappeared (leaving the cards below it revealable). I got to this point and I gave up:
      http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/realitymaniac/weird.jpg
    • kirakun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28``Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.''

      ~Napoleon Bonaparte
    • GUNNUT7, on 10/12/2007, -33/+2IN REGULAR SOLITAIRE AS LONG AS YOU HAVE TWO RED SIXES--WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
    • eridius, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@GUNNUT7

      Do you have any idea how Solitaire works? If you're missing a card, it's impossible to win.
  • borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -5/+94has anyone ever tried playing solitaire with actual cards? It much harder to win.
    • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -5/+123Because you spend more time re-shuffling and re-dealing than you do playing, and eventually get fed up and quit.
    • tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -17/+5Yes, it is. For some reason I've been playing a lot of it in my free time... and it's nearly impossible to win.
  • richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -47/+16This is just another example of Microsoft's monopoly, what with Solitaire bein gthe only game in town.
    • u8myfoood, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20NO!... there's pinball too!
    • Altanar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5C'mon people! It's called a joke.
    • richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I think some people missed the joke here...
  • MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -22/+36Buried as inaccurate. Clearly he is exploiting some bug in either Windows or maybe emulation software - I have seen much stranger bugs in Windows than this, as I am sure many Digg users have. The title is blatantly misleading, although Windows bugs are always a little funny too.
    • shadowarts, on 10/12/2007, -17/+17i think its is just supposed to be funny...
    • BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -42/+12I have never seen a bug in windows, ive never had it crash. How come I miss out on all the yelling at windows for being ghey stuff. Damn you XP, crash already.
    • titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -11/+26I've seen a few bugs in Windows too, it's called the registry and a little thing named .dll
    • steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13@titlesaysitall

      That and something called the "Device Driver" and the "Windows Update"
    • Nitrodist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8BlackCow, either you work for MS, don't use your computer at all, or just don't want to admit it.
    • jrmy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I have personally seen this bug happen. I actually took a couple screen shots of it.

      We tried to recreate the bug both nothing worked.
    • binarymayhem, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5the bug is windows!
    • drathosX3, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2@ Nitrodist

      Your comment is really stupid. Everyone who works for Microsoft is Anti-Microsoft... Almost every Microsoft employee I know, has a mac, is invited to WWDC, uses Mozilla, or even pirates Microsoft products...

      So it's not likely that they will stand up for Microsoft...
    • BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@Nitrodist
      I don't work at mircosoft, I spend a good chunk of my life on the computer, and I have honestly never had it crash. I had my Western Digital HD crash and I lost all my data but never XP, at least I cant remember it ever crashing.
    • BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh yeah I love how I get dugg down because I actually like Win XP and know how to use a computer and not get it messed up. Replace XP with Mac and everyone would digg me up because its cool to be against the corporation. You guys cant just see another point of view and know that people have different needs then "making a movie or organizing a photo collection". And I will say it again, XP has never crashed on me. (oh my gawd digg this person down because he knows how to use the comp00ter, circut city could u fix my c0mp0ter for me plz lol"
  • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20You have to be bored out of your skull to play Solitaire. Watching Bob Ross painting on TV is more stimulating than a game of Solitaire.
  • Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Oh, okay Microsoft, that was the last straw!

    Seriosly man.. Are you guys that bored, that you'll spend time investigating a half ass game that's just there to look pretty on the OS (and for all OS's in this matter) they're all crappy, you can get some amazingly better flash-based ones online, for free.
  • Feesh, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Hey.

    I was only trying to be funny, I realise that Microsoft don't actually spend hours a day trying to figure out how to screw their customers over. (That seems to come naturally to them.)

    I'm not using any emulation software as well. I figure that some where in the code a programmer has mistakedly assigned 6 of hearts instead of diamonds by mistake is all, but needless to say, it is quite suprising that a bug like that is in the code, I remember playing solitaire on Windows 3.1, and I doubt that it has changed much since back then.
    • Roger, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Couldn't you have just posted some screenshots instead of a movie?
    • Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I liked his movie. :-)
  • GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Is anyone really suprised by this. I imagine getting solitaire to work isn't the most important thing on their minds given the problems they've had with really important things like writting kernels.
    • Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're assuming their kernel team also work on Solitaire and it's a matter of sharing time between those. They don't...
  • animo47, on 10/12/2007, -19/+5umm, replacing a 6 of hearts with a 6 of diamonds actually does nothing to change the winnability of the game.
    • Dochtuir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Really. So when you stack all four suits together at the end, the dupe card doesn't matter? Or have you never actually gotten to the end?
    • aethir, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0"umm, replacing a 6 of hearts with a 6 of diamonds actually does nothing to change the winnability of the game."

      Thank you. Besides, this is clearly meant to be funny.
  • TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -21/+2Notice the lack of a taskbar...

    And what an odd motion he does with the mouse...I think its a scam, but then again..its solitaire and if they really want 1 minute of internet fame...go them?
    • Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Dude, its because he's using that crappy half-ass free version of screen recorder, which besides from the horrible quality, has "region" selected, meaning it will only record that certain region of the screen.
    • TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -24/+1My mistake for not knowing every piece of software available on the internet, I'll go re-read Download.com for you.
    • Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14>>My mistake for not knowing every piece of software available on the internet, I'll go re-read Download.com for you.

      Not "piece of software" but instead, type of software. "Screen recorders" or capturers have been around for a while now. With this same type of setting. Simply trying to inform you bud; Good luck on your download.com reading!
    • shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2theG2:
      relax, man, *****...
  • Feesh, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10A screenshot is easy to alter, I'm too lazy to alter a full blown screen..movie thing. Also I think you'll find if you have two 6 of hearts it greatly affects the winnability of the game ;).

    I moved the mouse in such a fashion because of my disbelief hehe. I didn't want to capture my whole screen because of the movie's file size.
    • TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Linking to your own blog, then avidly defending your submission in the comments is not the way to go on digg, just an FYI.
    • Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Linking to your own blog,"

      Who's blog should he link to then to explain the problem? :p
      Better going to the source, which actually *is* this blog rather than around it.

      Linking to blogs is only a problem when it's not the source of the story.

      And I see absolutely no problem with coming up with a story on your own either.
    • bitbytebit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@G2

      wow strike 2 for you, want to try for 3? .. moron

      Do you think before you type? ..nope
  • icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2yeah....people spend over $2500 on their personal solitair player...
  • belthesar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4He didn't cheat, nor is Microsoft actually cheating. Windows Solitaire, as played by my friend Matt, has loads of bugs when left running and new games created. Because he plays the game so much, he has made a habbit to finish a game, close the program and relaunch it. Every single time.

    It's just an old app that doesn't work so well after several routines.
  • origclubsoda, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Rigged? Or a classic example of the quality of Microsoft?
  • lemcoe9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14If you do Alt - Shift - 2, you automatticly win.
    • mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was about to do that and then I remembered that I deleted solitare from my computer to stop people from pissing hours away.
  • MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Well, they rewrote Solitaire in Vista.......
  • kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3this is the worst thing microsoft has ever done
    • Z_Man, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1it might one of the strangest things they have ever done... but definitely not the worst! think of all of the thounsands of god damn critical security holes
    • Resolver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i thought that was internet explorer..
  • rickbauls, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Who the hell uses Windows anymore?
    • MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The vast majority of the population with computers?
  • Quickbreak, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1http://duggmirror.com/videos_gaming/Microsoft_Uncovered_Solitaire_is_rigged/
  • BT-Wang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3it's time for the world to move on to internet reversi.
  • ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh the HUMANITY!
  • bazuden, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3@Feesh

    I thought it was funny, and I can't believe these ***** are burying this as inaccurate.

    *****' geeks don't know a *****' joke when they see one

    • smokester, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11***** totally ***** know what you ***** mean, I was all like ***** lol! and ***** they were all ***** burying it
  • ItNeverEnds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sure Microsoft has larger crimes and worse atrocities to commit than try to cheat people at solitaire...
  • biometricks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This doesn't really have anything to do with Microsoft "rigging" solitaire, but this dude is terrible at the game even when he has all the cards lined up.
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6473849624054234077&q=solitare

    And he even spelled it wrong-- solitare.
    • fhsjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why did I just watch this whole video, and why was it more entertaining than actually playing the game?
    • blitzkun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Press right click please.
  • teherga, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I call photoshop!!!!1!!!11!1 It's fake i can tell by looking at the pixels and from seeing alot of shops in my time.
    • cjmovie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Pixels made in photoshop look different?
    • teherga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for those who don't get it i was being humorous
  • DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I noticed Vista's Solitaire seems a lot harder than the older versions. Also the original Windows Solitaire was written by an intern (who in those days was unpaid).
  • Majin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Microsoft's software does not have bugs ..... it merely has randomly generated and undocumented features. XD
  • jayman16, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Who cares?
  • ltrpmac2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3makes me worry when they cant even program solitaire properly...
  • GrantTheGr8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3FreeCell is better anyways.
  • Zacko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Solitaire, who the F%@K plays that?
  • GameMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1What? I won that game all the time...
  • GameMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lol just beat it again
    http://www.solisearch.net/ims/pic.php?u=27272TiN3L&i=291204
  • wilburx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4at least its not as bad as solitaire in vista: http://wilburx.com/sol.vista.jpg
  • edwardsj182, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0lol, wtf at that screenshot :D
  • edillcyde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Minesweeper FTW!
  • LocalH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OLD NEWS, I knew about this bug for years
  • videozine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Umm no solitaire is not rigged - I opened Solitaire - just to check of course - and what was on my opening screen?

    the six of diamonds and the six of hearts.

    Definitely burying this story!
  • carolinevb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this has happend to me, i was playing solitair on my pda and very often i would be going through the deck and i would see a card there that i had allready put in the pile or list
  • pinksali, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have found after playing microsoft solitare for awhile that it is indeed rigged. You'll notice how the cards are always conveniently the perfectly wrong cards underneath. I actually think it is impossible for chance to really play a part in this game. The hidden cards always change accordingly to how smart you play the game. It will let you win but no matter how smart you are, it won't let that happen too long. I find it's not just this game (although it's amoung the worst) but it's almost all computer games. There's no chance in most computer games. They're all rigged to some point. That is a marketing ploy to addict you into buying their crap!
  • smilesdonthurt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I won the solitaire game, so it isn't rigged.
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