prokopetz:

Basically, the reason I prefer Freecell to Solitaire is that it’s been proven by exhaustion that 99.9% of Freecell hands are winnable, while Solitaire is impossible from the initial deal – i.e., such that no sequence of moves will result in victory – about two times in three, and I like to have confidence that my failures are due to my own incompetence rather than from being screwed before I ever began.