Solving
The original Microsoft FreeCell package includes 32,000 games, generated by a 15-bit random number seed. These games are known as the "Microsoft 32,000". Later versions of Microsoft FreeCell include more games, some over one million, of which the original 32,000 are always a subset. All hands in the Microsoft 32,000 have been beaten except for game #11982.
A statement in the original Help file remains through modern Microsoft versions: "It is believed (although not proven) that every game is winnable." However, this statement does not hold true for hands numbered "-1" and "-2" that were included as "Easter eggs" and were already known at the time to be unsolvable.
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