FranceThe current rule for the end of a run is when "the win animation begins", which is reasonably but can be slightly tricky to get right with some of the animations (eg. wave effect in Sigmar, or the fade effect in Proletariat I think).
A more straightforward rule could be "The timer ends when the win counter increases". It's easy to check frame-by-frame for everyone, and works with all solitaires. The change wouldn't affect the times by more than a few tenths, which I think is okay at the current state of the leaderboards.
As I'm starting to prepare a run for the full game, I'm curious how crazy the "No restarts" category is. Currently my win rate for each solitaire - when I'm focusing hard - is roughly:
- Sawayama - 50%
- Sigmar - 50% (still have to learn to look deep into the board)
- Proletariat - 80%
- Cribbage - 30% (*)
- Cluj - 80%
- Kabufuda - 40% (still learning too)
- ShenZhen - 70%
- Fortune - 30%
Sawayama & ShenZhen are the solitaire I've played the most (100-200 wins each), and I don't think I can improve the former much.
Assuming I kick off a "No restarts" run with a FF win and scratch it off that list, that means any run has about 0.5*0.5*0.8*0.3*0.8*0.4*0.7 = .... 1.3% chance to succeed :,-) So not statistically impossible I guess, but we're well into the crazy spend-dozen-hours-not-giving-up levels of speedrun efforts.
So what are your own win rates?
*EDIT: From Discord discussions, it looks like Cribbage, with its predictable seeds, can be 100%'d by resetting a save before a run. That brings up our chances to 4.5%.
