SUMMARY *** Whilst playing the “Golf” game with the solver operational, it becomes apparent that roughly only one game in every 10 or so is actually winnable. I know the solver takes the fun out of the game by telling you before you start whether you can win or not, but the ratio of games you can win, to those you can't, seems incredibly low. Could this be a bug with generating a random game, or is this low ratio of winnable games intentional? *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open kpat 2. Select “Golf” 3. Activate the solver 4. Hit “New Deal” 5. Observe the number of “This game cannot be won” versus “This game is winnable”. OBSERVED RESULT Significant amount of unwinnable games generated. EXPECTED RESULT A better ratio of winnable to unwinnable games. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 21.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.13.0-23-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
Well, the games are created randomly and I get rather 6 games to win in 10.
To check if you use the same solver: Ctrl-D your way from game number 1 to 20 1. not to win 2. to win 3. not to win 4. to win 5. to win 6. not to win 7. not to win 8. not to win 9. not to win 10. to win 11. not to win 12. to win 13. not to win 14. not to win 15. to win 16. to win 17. not to win 18. to win 19. to win 20. not to win So 9 out of to 20 are a little less lukcy than I was without picking numbers, but far better than your 1/10
Hi Stephan. So I did what you suggested, CTRL+D'd my way through the first 20 games, and my results are significantly different from yours. I got a total of 3 winnable games in 20. Games 4, 16 and 19 were marked winnable by the solver, the rest were marked as not winnable. I really don't know what to do with this...
Any chance I could get an update on this, please? Clearly there are differences between the games generated by your version, Stephan(In reply to Christian Peter Nielsen from comment #3) > Hi Stephan. > > So I did what you suggested, CTRL+D'd my way through the first 20 games, and > my results are significantly different from yours. I got a total of 3 > winnable games in 20. > > Games 4, 16 and 19 were marked winnable by the solver, the rest were marked > as not winnable. > > I really don't know what to do with this... Any chance I could get an update on this, please? Clearly there are differences between the games generated by your version, Stephan, and mine. Do you have any ideas what could be causing this to occur? Thanks!
May I please get an update? This has been open since February and it's still just as bad now! Thanks!
I don't expect to look into this the next years.
So basically you're just going to ignore the fact that this program is broken, and you're not prepared to fix it, am I right?
Maybe if you're not prepared to fix things when they're wrong (look at how different your results were to mine; whatever is up needs fixing), you should hand over to someone prepared to maintain the package.
Where is that mythical person that is going to fix this bug?
I'll remove the golf solver and then we're done here.