Editing Simple Simon (solitaire) (section)

== Statistics and analysis ==

In September 2001, Shlomi Fish adapted Freecell Solver, an automated solver for various solitaire card games, to solve Simple Simon.<ref>{{cite web
   | last=Fish
   | first=Shlomi
   | title=Freecell Solver Support for Simple Simon
   | url=http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/115
   | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130106000430/http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/115
   | url-status=dead
   | archive-date=January 6, 2013
   | date=2001-09-25
   | access-date=2009-05-17}}</ref> The statistics presented by the solver when run over a range of 4000 random games showed that about 85% of the games were solvable.<ref>{{cite web
   | last=Fish
   | first=Shlomi
   | title=Updated Simple Simon Statistics
   | url=http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/121
   | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105093842/http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/121
   | url-status=dead
   | archive-date=January 5, 2013
   | date=2001-09-28
   | access-date=2009-05-17}}</ref>  Another programmer added another type of move which reportedly increased the percentage of games that were solvable by the solver
to well over 90%.<ref>{{cite web
    | last=Mann
    | first=Michael
    | title=Re: more on simple solving algorithms
    | url=http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/981
    | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105195241/http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/981
    | url-status=dead
    | archive-date=January 5, 2013
    | date=2002-10-31
    | access-date=2009-06-21}}</ref>

In 2009 a more up-to-date version of Freecell Solver produced the result that the solver was able to solve 4,533 (or 90%) of the deals, and generally reached a conclusion within 100 moves.<ref>{{cite web
   | last=Fish
   | first=Shlomi
   | title=Updated Simple Simon Statistics (With the "Sequence to False Parent"
   | url=http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/1010
   | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105215346/http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/1010
   | url-status=dead
   | archive-date=January 5, 2013
   | date=2009-07-10
   | access-date=2009-07-18}}</ref>  The comment has been made that this is "what makes the game a joy: either it's impossible to solve and you see it in the first moves or it's solvable and you only have to find the best route."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/119|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709204250/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/119|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2012|title = Yahoo &#124; Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos}}</ref>