Thanks Harleyman. I'm not sure how I got 157. I've reached 163 a couple times by playing the king of diamonds first,but haven't been able to duplicate the 157.

I play the 3 4 5 up and the A 2 3 up and 3 on 4 and finish playing.

Nice going arnbyorn! How on earth?

As you all know, the game we play does not give us an "undo Move".
We must start over and undo.
Are the "Fathers of the Game" milking us?

More to come.
Branch-and-Bound Algorithms

Get a deck of cards.
Play the game.
You can use any card in the deck(in your hand) at any time.
Based on knowing your hand and the exposed cards you can control the play.
Now it gets complex. Either there is a solution  or not.
The Ace line becomes the back up in your game plan.

OK,
This is a good one.
Prof Tcutt is doing a complete analysis.
Donald[/font]_[/font][font=arial, sans-serif]Knuth will put this beast to bed.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Have you ever asked yourself how the experts with this are so good?
[font=arial, sans-serif]They have the algorithm, plus the software, to support them.

No black Jacks for the red Queens? What gives peeps?

Arrgh!d  I was slowly getting there, following Merav's and Chris's great clues.  And then, in a rash moment, I dragged downd the dreadedd 4.  Game Over!!!
Will have to start all over again!

There is no way to move the 2 off the 3 Merav, something else has to been done. I can't see how 25 have finished!