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- Program name: FIVE
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- Author name: Fredric J. Smothers
- 366 19th Avenue
- San Francisco, CA 94121
- Telephone: none
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- Suggested donation: $5.00
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- Program description:
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- Five is based on a dice game played by two or more players. The object of
- the game is to accumulate a score of 5000 points or more. Each player rolls
- the dice, accumulating scoring dice as long as he rolls scoring dice, if he
- fails to roll any score, he loses his turn and a 'scratch' is posted
- against him. After any player has 5000 points, every other player gets one
- more chance to beat that score. At the end, the player with the highest
- score wins. Each losing player pays the winner $0.25 for the game, and
- $0.10 for each scratch. A typical losing score is five to ten scratches.
- The gam ecan be played by up to 15 human or computer controlled players
- (counting yourself). The computer can play any of three different
- strategies from very conservative to fairly aggressive. This game is
- extremely addictive I found myself playing for literally hours at a time.
- The program is is very simple to operate and instructions are provided
- within the program if requested. This is an excellent program for any user,
- novice to expert. The source code is included in case you wish to modify or
- write your own computer players. The source language is Turbo Pascal. The
- program will run on any IBM-PC or compatible with at least 128 K of memory
- and one disk drive.
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