Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Gnome 49 Date: 2 Oct 2025 04:24:52 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <10bejip$35i1j$7@dont-email.me> <10bg818$3ielt$6@dont-email.me> <10bggft$3lj5k$3@dont-email.me> <10bhdi8$3ts5o$1@dont-email.me> <8pqtqlx55l.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10bhj25$3v8sp$3@dont-email.me> <10bio75$7g8d$3@dont-email.me> <10bj2q5$alf2$1@dont-email.me> <10bjl97$fqn5$1@dont-email.me> <2k40rlxp76.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <20251001104859.00004fce@gmail.com> <10bjr55$hfmk$1@dont-email.me> <10bkahp$lkce$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ArJwgtAOWYklDHHX3CX2vgn3d+Gmq9hclQRXOf0wtszvAQbgyq Cancel-Lock: sha1:DJ2HxfltzNh9EOJx8YySxXyZKC8= sha256:io12hV2c0qR3fjDpk34f8MBAoouSQGLRuApzvFVbF44= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75586 On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 15:38:46 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Gnome-mahjogg has them in the original Chinese characters not prettied > up for us Western barbarians. Also as far as I can see no way to make > sure it gives winning games or maybe it is set up to give nothing but > winning games. > But in KMahjongg you can set it to generated random games that may be > unwinnable. My suggested modification would make it generate unwinnable > games for the developers so imprisoned and to be their only form of > recreation. And they must play a game every hour or more often to be > fed. I played KMahjongg as a frequent test of my mentation. Interesting. I have selected different layouts for KMahjong but never noticed the always solvable button. I assumed, like Klondike or other solitaire games, that some were not solvable. There never seemed to be many points where a strategy would be useful.