Patience Experimental Results

This dataset contains extensive supporting data for the following paper

The Winnability of Klondike Solitaire and Many Other Patience Games
by Charlie Blake, Ian P. Gent
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
February 2026
Volume 85, Article 21, 47 Pages
doi: 10.1613/jair.1.17167
Earlier, pre-publication, versions of the paper can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.12314

Files containing experimental results for our work on Patience and Solitaire games including Klondike, Canfield and others.

File is a tarred and gzipped archive of many files in a number of directories, the most important being many .csv files. Each line of a csv file contains an experimental result (not necessarily conclusive) of a run of Solvitaire on a randomly generated layout of a particular game of patience. Additional directories include testing of our random number generation, replications of results from code produced by Jan Wolter, and testing of our code in its most recent version against the versions used in the main csv files.

This data set is v10 (internal numbering) of the data set and is labelled as Version 7 of the Figshare data set.