What has been written (off-line) about FreeCell?
Despite its popularity in the online world, very little on FreeCell has appeared in print. I wrote an article for Games Magazine (Michael Keller, Big Deal, June 1995, pages 10-13) about FreeCell and Baker’s Game. Dan Glimne’s new book of card games, in Swedish, published in December 1998 by Frida Forlag AB (Stockholm), 100 Kortspel & Trick: som roar hela familien (100 Card Games and Tricks to Entertain the Whole Family, ISBN 91-973473-0-2), is to my knowledge the first book of solitaires or card games to describe FreeCell (pages 66 and 67). The first English-language book of games to include FreeCell appeared in December 2001: the third edition of Hoyle’s Rules of Games by Philip Morehead (384 pp., $6.99, ISBN 0451204840, Signet). Martin De Muro published solutions to the first 1000 MS deals in book form (Free Cell Game Solutions #1, January 2000, 338 pp., $19.95, ISBN 096763881X, self-published), available from on-line bookstores such as Barnes & Noble or Amazon. A new (2004) solitair
