Bug in aisleriot (Triple Peaks)

Katharina Kader kkader at mail.uni-paderborn.de
Thu Aug 8 17:52:26 BST 2019


Hi guys,

I hope I'm writing to the correct address or, if not, that you will 
forward this mail to the correct address.

I just found the aisleriot app and tried it out. At first, it seemed to 
work fine - great variety of card games and great manuals, by the way!
I would have liked to have an option to clear the field automatically 
when it was obvious that the game was solvable (e.g. in gold mine, if 
everything is sorted in the tableau, no cards left in stock, why not 
offer to sort the cards into the foundations automatically, e.g. by 
right-clicking, a solve button or some other short cut).
I don't know if I just didn't find such an option or whether there is 
none, but it would be great if you could include such a mechanism.

But then I tried the Triple Peaks game and I think I have found a real 
bug there concerning the decked out cards:
When playing the game Triple Peaks in Progressive Rounds Mode (no 
multiplier scoring enabled), I first got several seemingly "normal" 
decks. Then, continuing after finishing a round, I got a deck where I 
didn't need any cards from the stock. I thought myself lucky.
But afterwards (I don't remember exactly, I think it was beginning with 
the 4th or 5th round in a row - still in the same game as I always 
succeeded in clearing the field) I noticed, that every round after that 
could be finished by just clicking the cards from bottom right to bottom 
left, continuing with the middle row afterwards and so on (there it 
might have not always been from right to left, I don't remember).
I thought that was random luck once, maybe even twice, but 3, 4, 5 times 
in a row (i.e., in each new round)?!

Afterwards, I started trying to remember the decked out cards - and 
(while continuing this strange series of being able to clear the decks 
from bottom right to left) I think I got 2 pairs of decks that were the 
same or at least very similar (i.e., 4 rounds, seemingly 2 pairs of 
decks): one containing a two, ace and two in that order as the last 
cards (at the top of the peaks) - all black, but 2 types of black. And I 
got another deck twice (or at least, very similar - comparing the 10 
cards available at the start and the last cards), this one containing a 
10, 9, 10 at the top of the peaks.
I can't guarantee that these were really exactly the same pairs of 
decks, but at least they were very similar.
I know that I've played now at least 9 consecutive rounds in this game 
where I could just clear the deck in the manner described above - that 
can't be random decks!
Could you fix this problem?

If it helps, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) and aisleriot 
version 1:3.22.7-2.

Best wishes,
Katharina Kader



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