7 Replies Latest reply: Apr 19, 2009 9:33 PM by windowman RSS

    Spider Solitaire Defect?

    windowman Community Member

      Just a silly question about a silly game really. Surely there must be someone here who plays the occassional game of spider solitaire. Do you ever get the wrong win rate percentage? I've only been playing for a month or two, so maybe I just don't understand what's going on, but when I check the stats it says I've won 100 games out of 664 played giving me a win rate of 13%. However, when I calculate the percentage myself 100 divided by 664 comes out to 15%. Is there something I'm not taking into account when the game calculates the score?

        • 1. Re: Spider Solitaire Defect?
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          Yes, sort this out.  Inquiring minds want to know!  (I get the same odd results.)

          • 2. Re: Spider Solitaire Defect?
            windowman Community Member

            Really? So it's not just me. I don't understand how it could happen. I'm no programmer, but I mess around with some Java and Flash scripting, and the math functions are all done for you by the program if you make a game or something of that sort. I don't know what program spider solitaire was written with, but if the program language itself is causing the error then other programs written by the same program must have math errors too I presume, at least when it comes to percentages. That's why I put up the post. Spider solitaire is just a game, but I wonder if there might be some serious apps out there written in the same language that are outputting percentage errors that could be important to someone? Curiouser and curiouser.

            • 3. Re: Spider Solitaire Defect?
              Stan Jones CommunityMVP

              Man.  The more I think about it, the more steamed I get.  I mean Microsoft must have really rushed the programmers to get this out.  I don't think I'll ever enuoy another game of spider.  I may just roll back to minesweeper.....

              • 4. Re: Spider Solitaire Defect?
                novelt-7 Community Member

                i play all the time..and sorry but it's accurate. you are doing the wrong math. the menu shows total games won and total games lost. you are getting your percentage from those two figures. the actual win percentage is over the total games played. so add the wins to the losses and then use that sum to get your percentage.

                 

                glad to help

                • 5. Re: Spider Solitaire Defect?
                  windowman Community Member

                  Oh dang... I knew I must have been doing something wrong. You're exactly right. I was looking at the losses and somehow "reading" total number of games played.

                  • 6. Re: Spider Solitaire Defect?
                    Stan Jones CommunityMVP

                    Ha, ha!  Well, that was fun anyway.  Sorry, Charles, that I stayed too literal when I "tested" your results.

                    • 7. Re: Spider Solitaire Defect?
                      windowman Community Member

                      There's no fool like an old fool. I'm 50 now, so I'm just doing my part to keep the tradition alive and doing it quite well I must say.