FreeCell

FreeCell deals all fifty-two cards face up across eight columns, which means there is nothing hidden and nothing left to chance after the deal. Four holding cells sit above the board, each taking a single card, and four foundations wait to be built up from ace to king.

Because nothing is concealed, almost every FreeCell deal can be won by someone who plans far enough ahead. Losing is a planning failure rather than a bad shuffle. The board tells you when you have genuinely run out of moves, so you never sit hunting for one that does not exist.

How many cards you can move in one go depends on how many cells and empty columns you have free, and the board works that out rather than making you count. Undo goes back as far as you like, so an experiment costs nothing. When the deal is decided, one button plays out the rest. Moves, minutes and your best game are kept on this device.