General Information

To move the cursor
	Use the arrow keys on your keyboard.
	You can quit from within any game by pressing 'esc' or 'Q'.

To use or move a card press the space bar.
	- All actions on cards must be done by clicking
	  the very top left corner of the card.
	- Moving a card involves first clicking the card
	  to be moved then clicking the card onto which 
	  it is being moved.
	- When you have clicked once and are moving to
	  put the card in another location the cursor
	  should be light blue.

Prompts will be given for any other necessary actions.

			Good Luck,
			    &
			Have Fun!


Specific instruction are in each section below:

1) 52 Pickup    3) 31           5) Solitare
2) Crazy 8's    4) Matching     6) Blackjack
		   Game


1) 52 PICKUP

Object of the game:

	One Player: To accumulate the most points possible by
			picking cards to create sets, straights, or
			straight flushes.

	Two Players:Same as for one player except now you must
			also attempt to stop your opponent from win-
			ning by using sneaky and underhanded move.

RULES:

- Only the cards that are completely visible on the top of the pile can 
be moved.

- A set (cards with the same value), straight, straight
flush or a combination of these makes up a trick.

- All straights & flushes must be played in descending order
with Aces able to be played as both high & low card.
		ex: 4,3,3,2,A,K,K,Q,...
- Each of the two tricks are independant and do not interact except to add 
their points together in a one-player game. Tricks are intended to build 
themselves on what the other trick has unburied.

CONTROLS:

- Use arrow keys to move cursor around cards.
- Press space bar to move card to trick.
- Tricks can be 'called' by pressing 'c', which will empty the trick and 
move it's points to the score so that the trick can be restarted.
- Switch between the tricks by using 'home' and 'pg up' on the keypad.


2) CRAZY 8'S

Object of the game:

			To get rid of all your cards before the                                         computer gets rid of it's.

RULES:

- The player and the computer takes turns placing cards onto the discard 
pile as long as the cards put down match the suit of the card currently 
face up on the pile.
- The suit can be changed in two conditions - 
	1) if a card is played with the same value as the card currently 
	   on the discard pile, the active suit changes to that of the 
	   new card.
	2) if an 8 is played then the player can pick any suit
	   to be the active suit.  This is done by pressing the
	   first letter of that suit.
- Generally players alternate turns exept when a player plays a jack.
In this situation the other player misses a turn.
- When either player lays down a two the other player must pick up two 
cards from the source deck.  If a two is played on top of that two the 
then next player must pick up four cards.  This continues to a maximum 
of picking up 8 cards.
	ie. 2,4,6,8,0,2,4,6,etc.
- The queen of spades requires that the other player player pick up 5 cards.
- When the source deck runs out of cards then the decks are flipped and 
shuffled and play continues.

CONTROLS:

- Double click cards to discard.
- Cards can be moved around by single clicking its location, then 
single clicking where you want it to go.
- Single click the source deck when you have no cards you are able to 
discard.
- To change the suit after playing an 8, just type the first letter of 
the suit you want to change to.


3) 31

Object of the game:

			To have more points than the computer
			after 15 hands.

RULES:

- Each player can possess only 3 cards at one time.  The goal for each hand
is to have more points than the other player by getting closest to 31.
- Points are calculated for only cards of the same suit.
- Aces count for eleven making the highest possible hand 31.
- Three of a kind counts as 30.5 which means that only a 31 hand can beat it.
- During play players pick a card from either the discard pile or the source
pile and then click the card they want to dispose of.  This is done so that
the players only have three cards in hand at a time.
- If you think you have a winning hand hit 'k' to knock which gives the other
player one more draw before the hand finishes and the best hand collects 
points.
- Points are calculated by the points contained in the winning hand plus
the difference between the winning and the losing hand.

CONTROLS:

- Your hand is the three cards at the bottom of the screen. The space above
them is where the currently drawn card is placed.
- Click any of these locations to discard the unwanted card.  If you
discard a card currently in your hand the card drawn will move down and 
replace it in the hand.
- You are considered the winner of the game if you beat the computer and
get onto the highscore board.


4) MATCHING GAME

Object of the Game:

		One player: match all the cards in fewest turn possible.                                      
		Two player: find more pairs than your opponent.

RULES:

- Turn over cards in hope of matching their values.  If you match two cards
you get a point, if you don't they are flipped back over and play continues.
- In the two player game turns alternate, except if a player finds a pair
inwhich case that player goes again.
- The one player version has a highscore list which records the fewest turns
taken to flip over all the cards.

CONTROLS:

- Move about with the arrows keys and flip with the space bar.


5) SOLITARE

Object of game:
			Move all the cards over into piles based on their 
			suit, from ace to king.

Versions:

No-scoring: The goal of this game is to clear the board. There is no
	scoring and you can flip the deck an infinite number of times.

Scoring: In this version you can go through the deck 3 times and are 
	scored based on turning cards over or moving them to the piles.

Betting game: This game starts assuming you have paid 1 dollar per card
	to play.  Every card you move to the side pile gets you 5 dollars.
	You can only go through the deck twice and must have at least 52
	dollars to continue another game. If you pick to play again and
	do not have 52 dollars you must go back to the title screen and
	start again.  Your money accumulates between games as long as you
	do not go back to the title screen.

RULES:

- Cards can be moved from one column to another if they are being placed 
below a card of the opposite color.  Cards must be played in descending
order.
- Moving cards also means moving all the cards in the column that are
below it.
- Often moving cards will mean that a face down card becomes fully exposed.  
Flip this card by clicking it.
- Turn over cards from the source deck on the bottom by clicking it.  You
can move cards off the top of the discard deck.
- Aces are important.  The goal is to move all the cards to the three empty
spaces on the left.  The piles must be started with an ace and continued
in ascending order of the same suit.
- As cards become avaibable move them to the left side piles.
- There are seven columns of cards in the game.  As one becomes empty only
kings can be put at the top.

CONTROLS:

- The arrow keys move the cards around all the screen.
- Single clicks are required to flip over cards in the columns and from
the source deck.
- To move a card to the left side piles it is only necessary to double
click that card.  If it is a legal move you will not have to move it
manually.
- King can be double clicked to move them to openings on the top of the
board from another column, but must be manually moved from the discard 
deck.  Kings must be manually moved to the left side piles.
- Moving cards is first done by clicking the card to be moved in the top
left corner.  Then move the cursor and it will be light blue (if after
moving the cursor is dark blue then you are between clicks and you must
click once and then restart the move).  Go to the location you want the
card to move to and click the top left corner of the card you want it to
go under. The card will then move.
- All card clicking must occur in the very top left corner.


6) BLACKJACK

Object of the game:     Try to maximize net earnings.

RULES:

- The game is set up as a casino with a dealer and a maximum of 3 players.
- The game first asks for bets to be placed and this is done by entering 
the appropriate number (maximun bet 1 hundred dollars).
- You cannot change your bet as numbers are entered. A bet laid is a bet
played. Press 'enter' when your bet is in or after four digits the computer
takes it.  Bets over $100 are changed to $100.
- Each player bets in turn and then the dealer deals two cards each.
- Each player in turn handles their cards.
- The point is for the value of your hand to be as close to 21 as possible
without going over.
- After each player has gone the dealer deals itself and winnings are paid 
out.

- If the values for the first two cards are equal to 10 or 11 the player 
is prompted to whether or not to double down.  Press 'y' if you do.
- A card will be laid face down and on your pile and your bet will double.
- After this the next player goes.

- If the values for the first two cards are equal to eachother the player
is prompted if they want to split.  If they respond 'y' the cards become
the first cards of two separate and independant hands which are immediately
played.
- Players can doubledown on either of these but cannot further split.

- If the first two cards delt are a ten value and an ace this is a blackjack
and you do not need play the cards but automatically recieve 1.5 times your 
bet at the end of the deal.

-You can quit from within blackjack by pressing 'Q' or 'esc' during betting.

SPECIAL INFORMATION

- Aces are assumed to be valued at 11 except if this leads to over
21, then they are counted as 1.
 

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This shareware version of Coffeebreak Card Games contains the two games,
52 Pickup and Crazy 8's.  You can have all six games by registering as
indicated below.

How to order:

For all six games: $36 Canadian
		 : $30 U.S.


		Distant Markets
		Box 1149
		194-3803 Calgary Trail South.
		Edmonton Alberta, T6J 5M8.
		Canada

Or Call,

	ORDERS          1-800-661-7383     
	Inquires        (403) 436-3009
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