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I somehow got an impossibly high score of 1292 in Spider Solitaire. I was playing on Beginner level. Seems like a bug. What should I do?
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Hi,
I know of one bug in the scoring. If you finish a suite you get the 100 points but if this is the last possible move, the game ends. In this case, return to the game and undo the last move. Instead of losing the 100 points plus 1 point for the undo itself (as you do if you undo a full suite under normal circumstances) you're only penalized with 1 point. Keep repeating this for a while before undoing the game a little further and try to finish the game with a win. This of course only works if you're able to complete the game.
/Emil
I have worked out that as Spider starts with a score of 500 points, then adds 100 points for every full suite you successfully remove (=500 + 8 x 100 = 1300) and then deducts one point for every move or undo you make. So to get a score of 1292 you would have to have cleared the whole board in 8 moves, which is obviously impossible!
I have collected enough info to fix this and sent it to Microsoft ages ago. I guess it got lost somewhere though, so here it is:
There is a bug with scoring. When you reach a dead end (game end) with a move that clears one suit (one pack of the cards? and have no moves left, game over), and you press "cancel" (undo last move), it performs "undo" for last 2 moves instead (the one that completed the suit and previous one). At the same time, score for removing the suit (+100 points) is not removed.
Because of this bug, under certain conditions you can have infinitely high score (tested, you can simply complete a set and get "game over" error, undo and repeat infinitely and the score gets higher, I reached 5k points before I got bored).
I have worked out that as Spider starts with a score of 500 points, then adds 100 points for every full suite you successfully remove (=500 + 8 x 100 = 1300) and then deducts one point for every move or undo you make. So to get a score of 1292 you would have to have cleared the whole board in 8 moves, which is obviously impossible!
I too have got this score, have you told microsoft?
