You may be wondering how FreeCell comes up with all its different deals. There's a long, technical explanation of use mainly to programmers, but the gist of it is that it uses the system's current clock time to produce a number after many complicated calculations. There are 32000 different deals in the Windows version (other FreeCell clones offer many more deals).
Why is deal 11982 unsolvable? It requires 5 freecells, and you are only provided with 4 in Windows FreeCell. In some FreeCell clones, you can set the amount of freecells to 5, 6, 1, none, etc. 11982 is the only unsolvable deal- you can solve every other one, no matter how many tries it takes!
