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Mastering the Art achievement in Microsoft Solitaire Collection (UWP)

Mastering the Art

Win a Master difficulty game in any of the 5 classic games

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How to unlock the Mastering the Art achievement

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    This is sorta a skill based achievement, also luck comes into favor as you have some really easy boards but sometimes you find that one that just gets under your skin. For me the easiest is Freecell, as I enjoy that the most, but for most that game is the bane of exsistance.

    So what i recommend you do for this and the Grandmaster achievement is Pyramid 1 Board. As the UWP version regardles of difficulty will give you a solvable board (Random isnt a difficulty imho but that one tends to brick)

    Pyramid rundown is simple make 13s combo's are as follows
    Ace Queen
    2 Jack
    3 10
    4 9
    5 8
    7 6

    Kings you can toss off the board regardless

    For Example: Usually when you do (Grand)Master pyramid you noitce when you get stuck what you miss, you notice you need to clear a 3 but you don't have a 10 anymore since it's behind the 3, so you need to see where and when you still had 10s and see how you can get to the roadblock with that 10 still in pile or on the board if you manage
    to clear the roadblock you should be able to clear the board shortly after.

    Here comes the tricky bit on Grandmaster Especially its super annoying but you have to have your pile (not always though) in a certain order else you cannot clear some of the lower tiers mostly you set it up allong the way without knowing it but sometimes you have leave out a combo to remove another of the sane card later in the pile

    For me this wasn't the case when going for G.Master but did happen for Master so keep this in mind the board given is always solvable

    Also sometimes you have excess cards in pile you don't need so you can combine them whilst they are down there you need to do this always on higher difficulties

    And if you really cannot see it sometimes it helps to just throw in the towel and get another go at it with a fresh board

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    Why not mention it, I am not describing you how to solve FreeCell right ? Also it was a silent hint, for readers, As I prefer it over Pyramid but could not do it because there isn't Master Diff like you described. This method is by far the easiest to grasp since it doesn't have weird sollutions like single draw Klondike or 2 Suit Spider Master
    Posted on 11 Nov 21 at 14:39
    SirFerburgerThis achievement put my TA score over 1 mil. Pretty cool one to have that accomplish a feat.
    Posted by SirFerburger on 30 Dec 21 at 00:51
    Apostle92627The only problem I had with 1 Draw Klondike is that I couldn't seem to get the card I needed until the following hand. But I eventually got lucky for both this and the Grandmaster achievements.
    Posted by Apostle92627 on 28 Jan 22 at 00:07
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  • corpiratecorpirate
    13 Jul 2023 04 Sep 2023 04 Sep 2023
    You can unlock this achievement by using the in-game solver tool.

    Pick the Master difficulty in whichever of the 5 classic games you like, and tap the solver tool.

    Simple!
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