The Greenfelt F.A.Q.
Frequently Asked Questions
Site Wide
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Do I have to login?
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No, you can play all you want without logging in.
High scores are associated with login names,
so you do need to login in to get one.
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If I login after starting a game, can I still get high score for it?
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Yes! We forget to login sometimes too, so we made it so
you can login while you're playing or even after
playing a few games and still get credit for them.
However, if you reload the page or choose a different
game then those games will be lost, so be careful.
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Do I need to enable cookies?
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You need them enabled to login and get high scores. If
you wish to play anonymously then you do not need cookies
enabled.
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What's with the "Game #" in the high score tables and on certain game pages?
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The game number represents a single repeatable game. For instance,
for Sirtet it means that if you play the same game number again you
will get the exact same pieces in the same order. For the card
games, the deck will be in a particular order for each game number
after being shuffled. This lets you compete against other players
on equal ground.
Card Games
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Why do I keep getting a high score and yet I'm always the only one in the list?
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The high score table on card games only shows the high scores for
that particular game number. Since there are a whole lot of
games (4 billion, give or take) the odds of someone else playing
the particular game you just played are very, very low. If you want
to compete with people the best thing to do is go to the Leader Board and play the various "Games of
the day".
We eventually want to replace the per game high scores with a
global player ranking. But we haven't exactly figured out what we
should be ranking players on, so it's not done yet. If you have any opinions,
let us know
on the forum.
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Why don't you rank all the games ever played and show the best in the high score table?
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Actually, we used to do this. Because of the way we score, the
table ends up with a whole lot of games with a score of 52 (for
Klondike, Sea Haven Towers, Freecell, etc.) These then get ranked
by time (shortest first), which just ends up encouraging people to
find an easy game and play it as fast as they can.
One solution for that might be to give harder games a higher
possible score, but how to figure out which games were "harder"
automatically is currently non-obvious to us.
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Is there a key for undo?
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Yes, the usual key on your platform should work: Control-z on Windows
and Unix and Command-z on Mac OS X.
Also, you can add the shift key into the sequence to get redo.
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Isn't undo cheating?
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Maybe, but we don't care since it makes playing so much more fun. On some
games you can undo all the way back into the previous game!
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Is there a key for auto-finish?
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Yes. Control-a on unix and Windows and Command-a on Mac OS X.
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Isn't auto-finish cheating?
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Not really. It only makes the most obvious moves.
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What happens when I double click a card?
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When you double click a card the game will make the
best simple move it can.
Sirtet
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What's with the name Sirtet?
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It's Tetris backward. The Tetris name is trademarked,
so when we wrote our first version of Tetris while we
were learning C back in '91 we called it Sirtet. This
version shares the game scoring system as well as the
block look and code (ported to javascript of course) as
our original version which was only available for Amiga
and Mac OS.
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I can't seem to beat Katie. Is she cheating?
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Not as far as we know. She used to play our original
Mac version a lot while she was growing up, so she has
the look and feel of Sirtet seared into her brain.
Hopeless
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How do I get a high score in hopeless?
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Play level three. The scoring is a bit biased toward
that level. We are open to suggested scoring tweaks.
Post a message
to us in the forum if you have any ideas.
