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I wrote this Java application for my final project at the University of St Andrews, where I graduated in 2006 - there's always something of an unspoken competition among the year to come up with the silliest legitimate acronym. This one's own abbrevation stands for Solitaire Specification, Simulation and Solution System - the aim of the project was to create something that could solve games of various Solitaire variants as fed to it through an XML specification markup.
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And it sort of worked. It's not the best Solitaire solver in the world or anything, using quite an inefficient general method a lot of the time. The source is included in the ZIP so that you can look at how it does everything - it's looking slightly dodgy these days but it allowed me to graduate!
You'll need Java to run it (I'd specify JSE 1.4.2 or greater, but who doesn't have that now?) - just start it up with "run.bat" and it'll sort itself out. Also included are the acres of reports and user guides that I included with my submission, which should help you make some sense of it.
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