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- <sect1 id="Valentine"><!--<sect1info>
- <copyright>
- <year>2001</year>
- <holder>Rosanna Yuen</holder>
- </copyright>
- <author>
- <firstname>Rosanna</firstname>
- <surname>Yuen</surname>
- </author>
- <address><email>zana@webwynk.net</email></address>
- </sect1info>-->
-
- <title>Valentine</title>
-
- <para>Written by Rosanna Yuen</para>
-
- <sect2><title>Setup</title>
-
-
- <informaltable>
- <tgroup cols="2">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Type of Deck</entry>
- <entry>Standard Deck</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Stock</entry>
- <entry>
- Top left pile. All remaining cards are placed here after
- dealing.
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Waste</entry>
- <entry>
- Top right pile. Can only hold one card.
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Tableau</entry>
- <entry>
- Four piles. One card is dealt in each slot at the beginning
- of the game. Redealing from the stock moves all cards
- currently in the Tableau to the bottom of the Stock
- slot.
- </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Goal</title>
-
- <para>
- Have all the cards in the Tableau, each slot containing Ace to King
- of one suit. Avoid going crazy achieving this.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Rules</title>
-
- <para>
- If any two cards dealt on to the Tableau are the same suit and in
- sequence, place the lower card on to the higher. Aces are low,
- Kings are high and sequence does not wrap. Click on the Stock
- to fill in the empty slots that are made.
- </para>
- <para>
- When no plays can be made in the Tableau, click on the Stock to
- deal a card on to the Waste. If this card can be played on to any
- of the Tableau piles, do so. Repeat this process until there are no
- more moves in the Tableau or from the Waste.
- </para>
- <para>
- At this point, clicking on the Foundation again moves all the cards
- in the Tableau back to the bottom of the Stock. The card in the
- Waste is put in the first Tableau pile and the rest of the Tableau
- is filled with one card to each pile from the Stock.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Scoring</title>
-
- <para>
- There is no scoring in this game.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Strategy</title>
-
- <para>
- A great game for killing time, Valentine really has no strategy,
- unless the strategy is to play it instead of doing other, more
- important things, like going to bed.
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-