The Wise Man

Introduction

The Wise Man is a powerful and unique feature of Solo Cards. When asked, this tool will try to figure out if the game you are playing can be completed or not. In the later stages of a game, it will even conclude the game for you !

Running The Wise Man

The Wise Man is launched by clicking the Wise man button in the Toolbar. While running the Wise Man disables the game, so you can't do anything else but wait until it stops. The Wise Man will stop when it finds that the game is blocked or won or when it comes short of available time (see the Configuration Manager for time allocation for the Wise Man) in which case the Wise Man won't be able to give you any diagnostic.

- Game Blocked When the Wise Man determines that the game is blocked, it means that the game cannot be completed. In this case you may try to undo a few moves and try another way to complete it or you can end the game.
- Game Won When the Wise man determines that the game is won, it means that the game can be completed sooner or later. Warning ! It does not mean that the game can be completed whatever the moves you will do thereafter, but rather, a solution (may be only one !) exists. Sometime, the Wise Man will propose to complete the game for you ; in this case, if you agree, the Wise Man will move all the remaining cards to their final location and win the game. As a rule, the Wise Man will conclude the game if and only if not too much cards still have to be moved (in general one third of total cards in play and arranged in a way that they can easily be moved to their final target).

You Said Not So Wise ?

OK ! The Wise Man is not always really wise... In fact the Wise Man is also a Young Man. He has just begun his new carreer in playing cards and he has much to learn yet. You'll find sometimes that the moves he does are not the ones you would have done... Sometime he will hardly find that a game is blocked although you already figured it out... Forgive him ! In fact it depends on games, some being easily analysed some offer too much solutions. Anyway, be sure that someday, after learning well, he will become wiser and better : you'll have to practice a lot to compete with him !

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