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How to play Halloween Match

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What Is Shareware?

How to register Halloween Match

Other available products

About the Author


How To Play Halloween Match

You start the game with ten pieces of candy corn. Each time you win a hand you get to eat one piece of candy corn. The player that eats all their candy corn first wins the game.

To win a hand, you need to match as many tiles as you can in your hand. You and the computer will select tiles one at a time. As you select tiles, they will be placed in your hand. After both hands have five tiles, you will be told who won the hand.  The hands are scored as follows, from highest to lowest:

Five of a kind

Four of a kind

Full house (3 of one kind and a pair of another)

Three of a kind

One pair

No match


File New

This commands starts a new game, returning ten pieces of candy corn to each player.


File About

This shows information about Halloween Match, including its creator, version number, and copyright date.


File Exit

This allows you to exit Halloween Match.


What Is Shareware

Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to register the program. Individual programs differ on details -- some request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual.

Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware.

Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it.

DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT

Users of Halloween Match must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "Halloween Match is supplied as is.  The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Halloween Match."

Halloween Match is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation.  Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system.  The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.  If you enjoy this program and wish to receive more puzzles, you must make a registration payment to the author.  The registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time.  You must treat this software just like a book.  An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time.

Anyone distributing Halloween Match for any kind of remuneration must first contact Glen DeBiasa for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering Halloween Match immediately (However, Glen DeBiasa must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of Halloween Match.).

You are encouraged to pass a copy of Halloween Match along to your friends for evaluation.  Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it.  All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of Halloween Match.

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How to register Halloween Match


Registering Halloween Match
How To Register Halloween Match

This product is distributed as Shareware. It may be freely copied and distributed provided that the original files remain unmodified and no fee is accepted for distribution without the express written consent of Glen DeBiasa.

If you enjoy this product and wish to receive additional puzzles, you must register it. To register, send a check or money order in U.S. funds for five dollars ($5.00) to the address below:

Glen DeBiasa

Halloween Match

R.R. 1 Box 410 Apt 1M

Hamburg, NJ 07419

When you register the product, you will receive the latest version of Halloween Match. Registered users will automatically receive any minor upgrades of the program. Be sure to indicate which disk size you prefer.

Should you experience any difficulties with this product, please do not hesistate to contact me at the address above. I can also be contacted on America Online (GlenDB) or on CompuServe (UserID 70602,3257). Comments and suggestions on improving this product are always welcome.

Other Topics

What Is Shareware?


Other Available Products

CrossWords (Version 1.2, Registration fee $10)

CrossWords is an entertaining game for 1 to 3 players. The object is to guess the theme of a crossword puzzle. Players are given clues to special hint words. The hint word is revealed one letter at a time while players compete to guess the word. Once the word is solved, the letters of the word are placed into the crossword puzzle. The player who correctly solves the word controlls the board and can guess at words on the board to increase the points in the jackpot. The player who guesses the puzzle's theme wins the round and takes the points in the jackpot.

Equatron (Version 1.1, Registration Fee $7.50)

Equatron is a challenging strategy game played against the computer. The computer randomly generates a mathematical equation, which it fills in with numbers from the game board. Your task is to beat the computer, scoring more or less than the computer, depending on the round.

To help you in your task are special tiles including Zap (which remove the last number entered into the equation), Negate, Double, Triple, and the unpredictable Any Number.

As the rounds progress, the stakes grow higher, as the equations become more complicated, and more variable, operators, and parenthesis. Want to try a particular equation? Just specify the round number and you can play it! Over 30 different equations!

For a more challenging game, set the number of rounds needed to win the game and see if you can beat the computer before it beats you!


About the Author

Glen DeBiasa is the creator and programmer of Halloween Match. He is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals. He graduated from Clarkson University in 1991 and holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science. He is currently working for a gourmet food store in northern New Jersey called Someplace Special.