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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.
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- The instructions are available, along with scoring combinations by
- pressing the <y> key in response to the question--Do you need an
- introduction? Pressing any other key proceeds with the game without
- any instructions.
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- The computer can play any of three different strategies from very
- conservative to fairly aggressive. The computer players MUST be
- specified very carefully. The CAPITALIZATION is CRITICAL. The
- computer player's names must begin with <Comp#> where # is the
- strategy level from 1 to 3. You may specify any number of computer
- players. You can differentiate between computer players by putting
- any printable characters after the computer name. Examples of valid
- names are:
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- Comp1 Comp1 A Comp1 Test
- Comp2 Comp2a Comp2b
- Comp3 Comp3 C Comp3 ###
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- If the first five characters are anything other than <Comp#>, the
- computer will assume that you've entered some human's name and will
- ask that person to play.
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- The game can be exited at any time with a ^C (control-C). The
- computer will accumulate winnings for up to fifteen players for
- a large number of games.
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- The source code is included in case you wish to modify or write your
- own computer players. The source language is Turbo Pascal.
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- I hope you enjoy playing this game as much as I enjoyed writing it.
- If you do, I would appreciate your donation in the amount of $5.00
- toward my next software project.
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- Thank you very much,
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- Fredric J. Smothers
- 366 19th Avenue
- San Francisco, CA 94121
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