Bug 96531

Summary:	KPat: Mod3 incorrect unwinnable game message
Product:	[Applications] kpat	Reporter:	Inge Wallin <inge>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	coolo, smorg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	saved kpat mod3 game

Description Inge Wallin 2005-01-07 16:29:28 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The dialog that tells the user that the game is unwinnable is wrong. Sometimes the game is winnable anyhow.  

This bug is for the Mod3 patience.  The same is true for at least Klondike, draw 3 (bug 91317), but that is a separate bug from this one.

Comment 1 Inge Wallin 2005-01-07 16:46:44 UTC

CVS commit by ingwa: 

Fix bug 96531: KPat: Mod3 incorrect unwinnable game message

 - Changed the criteria for a lost game in Mod3

BUG: 96531


  M +5 -0      CHANGES   1.17
  M +77 -47    mod3.cpp   1.42

Comment 2 kevin russell 2005-09-26 23:46:02 UTC

I am using KDE 3.4 and KPatience 2.2.2., and just easily played to success a game (Mod3 38874810) that also stated thta the game was unwinnable, when it was

Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2008-04-24 16:32:41 UTC

I just played a mod3 game (729328427) which stated unsolvable, but I was able to win. I used current svn. Because of that I reopen the bug ;-)

Comment 4 Skander Morgenthaler 2008-06-03 17:58:30 UTC

Created attachment 25090 [details]
saved kpat mod3 game

I just came across a game that was also reported as "unwinnable" - and if you
move a card from the wrong pile is report$

To render the game "lost", just move the 9 of spades one slot to the left.
To change the message from "unwinnable" to "winnable" move the 5 of diamonds
one slot to the left.

Of course you can do both and easily win the game, even after it is "lost" ;-)

kpat (post 4.1-beta1) build from trunk, using rev. 815513

Comment 5 Skander Morgenthaler 2008-06-03 18:05:19 UTC

the line that was cut off (by the $-sign) was supposed to be
"... and if you move a card from the wrong pile is reported as "lost" - even though it is still quite easy to win that game."

Comment 6 Antti J. Huhtala 2008-08-05 11:43:31 UTC

The "helper" in kpat is often dead wrong. For example, it says "This game is lost" even when there is a big window in the middle of the screen stating: "Congratulations! You have won." I have a screenshot to prove this.
Dozens of times it has said: "Nope, this game cannot be won anymore". If I keep on playing, it often starts to behave and changes the message to "...can still be won!"

Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2008-09-09 18:38:50 UTC

#6 is most likely another bug - this bug is fixed in r859163