Thank you for downloading Mix. Mix is based on (blatantly stolen from) this neat card game called Set®... I think it's a fun game, and bet my, um, left pinky that you do too...
How to play:
The object of the game is:
To find "sets" of cards.
Cards
are composed of four elements: shape, color, fill & number. For instance, a card could show: One filled blue rectangle. Or: Three empty red triangles. Or: Two patterned squigilys.
A set
is three cards where each element is the same on all cards, or differant on each card. Here is a sample set: a) Three empty red triangles, b) two patterned red triangles, c) one filled red triangle. If card b had, say, three red triangles, this wouldn't be a set. Here's another sample set: a) Three filled green rectangles b) Three filled red rectangles c) Three filled blue rectangles... Just remember that if any two cards share a property and the third one doesn't, then it's not a set.
Actually Playing The Game
is a very fun thing to do. Here's how you do it:
Open Mix. When it comes up, you will see a button marked "Play". Click it. Ahhh. Then you will be in the game playing scene. Buitifull, isn't it? Okay, now click "New Game". The cards will be dealt out. What you do now is search for sets. When you see a set, you buzz in. Buzz in by a) clicking on your name OR b) pressing your buzz in key. After you buzz, you select the cards that make up the set. (Do this by clicking on the cards). When you have your set selected, click the "Okay" button. If you have chosen a valid set, your score will go up and three new cards will be dealt. If not, your score will go down, no new cards will be dealt, and you will be buzzed out. :(. By default, you will be "New Player" and will be playing against "Evil Computer", who is quite dumb. This can get tiresome, so....
The options screen: Customize the robust playing enviroment of Mix to meet your needs!
Okay, this is pretty simple. Just click on the "Options" button, and your taken to the options screen. (Note: You can't go to the options screen when playing a game. Click "End Game" to quit the game.) Once in the options screen, everything should pretty much be self explanatory, though I would like to make clear a couple things. Under the "Players" pane you will see a whole bunch (five, to be precise) of names and weird mysterious icons to the right of them. The icons control wether the person is playing, not playing, or controlled by the computer. Change the state by clicking on them. When the computer is selected another little button pops up showing the inteligence of the computer. You can also click on this to change it. That's all I'm going to say about the options screen, your a smart person, you should be able to figure out the rest...
Feel free to give this away to all your friends and enemies, just as long as you remember to include this readme. (Feel free to modifie it if you can make it better, just don't take out my name, address, or e-mail address. Thankx.)
