Press the Play or Replay button in the Scores window, or choose New Game from the File Menu. The Game window will be brought to the front and Klondike will deal the cards. If you pressed the Play button, Klondike will first shuffle the deck; Replay allows you to retry the last shuffle in another game.
PLAYING THE GAME
It is easy to play Klondike. You move cards between the deck, tableau, and foundations by dragging them with the mouse. Position the mouse pointer on the card you wish to move, press and hold the mouse button, and move the pointer to the destination pile. This will “drag” an image of the card along with the mouse pointer. When the outline of the card touches a legal destination, the destination will be highlited. Release the mouse button when the highlight appears and the card you “picked up” will move to the destination.
To move an entire face-up pile of cards, position the mouse pointer on the highest card (i.e., the one deepest in the pile) and drag the pile.
To turn up the top card in an uncovered, face-down pile, position the mouse pointer on it and click once. Clicking is also used to turn up the next card (or cards) in the deck.
To move a single card to the foundations, you may double-click on the card instead of dragging it.
If you wish to see the suits of the cards in the middle of a face-up pile, position the mouse pointer on any of those cards and press the mouse button. The pile will be expanded to fill the screen as long as you keep the button depressed.
WINDOWS
Klondike always opens two windows initially: the Game window, which contains the tableau, the foundations, and the deck; and the Scores window, which is a dialog window for setting the number of players and their names, choosing the next player, and viewing high scores. You may move these windows freely, and Klondike will remember where you left them from one run to the next.
The Scores window is the front window initially. Use the check boxes to designate the number of players in the game, and type their names in the adjacent edit text boxes. Select the next player using the radio buttons. To start the game, press the Play or Replay button.
Press the Reset button to clear the top 10 scores displayed in the right half of the Scores window. Holding down the Option key will also clear the total game count. You may hide the Scores window by clicking in its close box, or by turning off “Show Score” in the Options Menu. Turning off “Show Score” also hides the current score in the Game window.
You may also open Help windows by selecting Help topics from the Help Menu, and Desk Accessory windows by activating Desk Accessories from the Apple Menu. Click in the window's close box to close a Help window.
Remember, these are all real MacIntosh windows: you can move them around on the screen or reorder them by bringing different windows to the front. The Game window normally fills the screen, so when you bring it to the front it covers any other windows you have open (such as the Scores window). Just move it or resize it (by dragging the lower right corner) to find the desired window.
MENUS
The Apple menu contains the usual “About Klondike…” selection, plus the desk accessories in your System.
The File Menu contains five selections: New Game, New…, Open…, Close, and Quit. When the Scores window has not been hidden, choosing New Game to end a game brings the Scores window to the front. Press the Play or Replay button, or choose New Game once more, to start the next game.
New… creates a new “deck”, a document which contains your scorecard, option settings, player names and face card designs. You can use a deck by choosing the Open… menu selection, or by opening it from the Finder, which will start up Klondike. Choose Close to close the current deck and return to the built-in deck.
The Edit menu allows you to Undo the last move you made in the game, unless you just turned up a face-down card. It also includes the usual Cut, Copy and Paste functions which may be useful with some desk accessories.
The Options menu governs the game options: Show Score, Sound On, Fast Deal, Casino Game, Play Out, and Turn Three/Turn One. With System File 4.1 and later, the Red Suits, Card Backs, Background, Animation and Return menus also appear as hierarchical menus under the Options menu. Klondike remembers your selections on the Options menu from one run to the next.
When Show Score is selected, a running score appears in the Game window during the game. If the Scores window has not been closed, it will be brought to the front at the end of each game.
When Sound On is selected, Klondike will produce sound effects at the start of each game and whenever you win a game.
Fast Deal causes Klondike to deal the cards as fast as the Macintosh can draw them when selected. To play games as fast as possible, turn Fast Deal on and turn Sound off.
Selecting Casino Game lets you score Klondike according to the common wagering scheme (see Scoring) instead of Klondike's original video-game style scoring.
Selecting Play Out lets you keep playing after you turn up the last card, until you have moved all cards up to the foundations. Normally, Klondike scores your win when you turn up the last card.
Turn Three and Turn One allow you to choose whether you want cards from the deck turned up three at a time (default) or one at a time.
Penalty Warn lets you have Klondike sound a chime when you have turned up the last card of the deck and another turn will incur a scoring penalty.
The Red Suits menu allows you to choose any of the standard Macintosh colors as the color for Hearts and Diamonds suit symbols, or to pick your own color from the Macintosh Color Wheel. For legibility, a Grey pattern is used instead of Black.
The Card Backs menu allows you to choose which color to use for the card back pattern.
The Background menu allows you to choose a color for the window background in which you play Klondike.
The Animation menu allows you to choose which type of representation Klondike will use while dragging cards around the screen. “Full” drags a complete image of the card(s) (memory permitting); “Ghost” drags an interesting rendition of the card(s); “Outline” drags a grey outline of the card(s).
The Return menu lets you control the animation effect when you release a moving card or stack without making a legal move. You can opt for instant return, or select slow, normal, or fast animation.
The Help menu allows you to open Help windows for explanations of Rules, Play, Scoring, or News (about this version of Klondike), and allows you to Show Aces. You are now reading the text describing Play. If you are using System 7.0 or later, the Help Menu selections appear on the System help menu at the right of the menu bar, and balloon help is also available.
After exacting a scoring penalty, Show Aces will show you where all the face-down aces are (if any) in the tableau. Play stops until you click the mouse button once more to hide the aces and resume play.
