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bACKGAMMON hELP
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sELECT OPTION "1" TO BEGIN GAME PLAY. eNTER PLAYER NAMES AT THE PROMPTS. tHE
BACKGAMMON BOARD IS THEN DRAWN. tHE FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IS DECIDE WHO
GOES FIRST. yOU WILL SEE A "fIRST 12R?" PROMPT. eNTER "1" IF YOU WANT PLAYER
1 TO GO FIRST, "2" IF YOU WANT PLAYER 2 TO GO FIRST, OR "R" IF YOU WANT THE
COMPUTER TO DECIDE AT RANDOM. pLAYER 1 CONTROLS THE "o" PIECES AND MUST MOVE
TO THE HOME AREA AT THE UPPER LEFT OF THE SCREEN. pLAYER 2 CONTROLS THE "x"
PIECES AND MUST MOVE TO THE HOME AREA AT THE UPPER RIGHT. aT THE START OF EACH
TURN THE DICE ROLL IS SHOWN. iF A PLAYER CANNOT MOVE THE COMPUTER WILL
AUTOMATICALLY END THEIR TURN. tO MOVE A PIECE ENTER THE LETTER OF THE COLUMN
OF THE PIECE TO BE MOVED, THEN A DASH "-", THEN THE LETTER OF THE COLUMN TO BE
MOVED TO. fOR EXAMPLE, "A-C" WOULD MOVE A PIECE FROM COLUMN "A" TO COLUMN "C"
IF THE MOVE IS VALID. iF YOU ENTER AN INVALID MOVE NO HARM IS DONE. sIMPLY
RE-ENTER Ttalking to people on the phone, taking care of complaints, spending money
and making money, being the best businessman you can, and then... You go
home and relax and think back over the day and you realize that practically
everything you did added to thST PLAYED A CARD GETS A "[0;33MGO[1;37M" WHICH IS WORTH 1
POINT. tHE COUNT IS THEN RESET TO ZERO. tHIS CONTINUES UNTIL ALL CARDS HAVE
BEEN PLAYED. wHEN A CARD IS PLAYED A NUMBER WILL APPEAR ABOVE IT. tHIS
ALLOWS YOU TO REVIEW THE ORDER IN WHICH CARDS WERE PLAYED. aN "[0;33MX[1;37M" ABOVE THE
CARD MEANS THE CARD WAS ALREADY PLAYED.
tHE NEXT PHASE IS TO COUNT THE POINTS IN THE HANDS. tHE PLAYER OPPOSITE THE
DEALER COUNTS FIRST, THEN THE DEALER, THEN THE DEALER COUNTS HIS CRIB. iF
YOU ENTER MORE POINTS THAN YOU HAVE YOU GET ZERO WHILE YOUR OPPONENT GETS
YOUR POINTS. iF YOU ENTER LESS THAN THE CORRECT POINTS YOUR OPPONENT GETS
THE POINTS YOU MISSED. pOINTS ARE DETERMINED AS FOLLOWS:
eACH DIFFERENT COMBINATION OF CARDS THAT TOTAL 15 IS WORTH 2 POINTS.
eACH DIFFERENT COMBINATION OF CARDS THE RESULT IN A RUN OF AT LEAST 3
CARDS IS WORTH THEN LENGTH OF THE RUN. nO RUN CAN BE A SUBSET OF ANY
OTHER RUN.
pAIRS ARE WORTH 2 POINTS.
3 OF A KIND IS WORTH 6 POINTS.
4 OF A KIND IS WORTH 12 POINTS.
iF ALL THE CARDS IN YOUR HAND ARE THE SAME SUIT YOU GET 4 POINTS. iF THE CUT
CARD IS ALSO THE SAME SUIT YOU GET 5 POINTS. cRIBS MUST HAVE ALL 5 CARDS
THE SAME SUIT.
iF YOU HAVE A JACK OF THE SAME SUIT AS THE CUT CARD YOU GET 1 POINT.
tHE FIRST PLAYER TO REACH 121 POINTS, TWICE AROUND THE BOARD, IS THE WINNER.