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- 3]TILES
- 3]Game by TODD M. LEWIS, Sanford, NC
- 3]Staff Notes
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- Tiles bears some similarity to the ancient (500 B.C.) Chinese game of
- mah-jongg with its use of stacks and rows of tiles. However, this is a
- solitaire game whose object is to clear the board down to two remaining
- tiles.
- Play is simple. There is no scoring.
- At the start, the player is told the board is being built and there is
- a wait of perhaps 30 seconds, after which it's possible either to begin
- play or to use a pulldown menu at top left of screen to see the few options
- of the game: build a new board, a note about authorship and distribution,
- and quit.
- To play, you must find two identical tiles at the ends of any rows and
- click the mouse on both those tiles to eliminate them from play. Example: a
- tile at the far left of the top row and the far right of the bottom row.
- When the board is drawn, notice some sections are bounded by a
- grayish-green box. This means the tiles within the box represent a row
- which is stacked upon other tiles beneath it. It is legal to consider tiles
- at the left or right of such areas to be at the end of their rows.
- Eliminating stacked tiles reveals tiles beneath them.
- Consider the game won if you end with two tiles on the board. No
- trumpets blare when this happens.
- If you can't see a way to win, you can either draw a new board or quit.
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