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- <sect1 id="Quatorze"><!--<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>Quatorze</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. The rest of the deck is placed here after
- dealing the Tableau. Empty spaces in the Tableau are
- immediately filled in with cards from the Stock.
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Tableau</entry>
- <entry>
- Five-by-five grid, each capable of holding one card.
- One card dealt to each space at the beginning of the game.
- Empty spaces are filled in from the Stock. Once Stock is
- exhausted, spaces are filled by moving cards from the right to
- the left, from the leftmost card of the row below to the the
- rightmost space, leaving all empty spaces at the end.
- </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Goal</title>
-
- <para>
- Remove all cards.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Rules</title>
-
- <para>
- Cards can be removed in pairs if they add up to fourteen (with Jacks
- being 11, Queens 12, and Kings 13) and are in the same row or column.
- </para>
- <para>
- Empty slots are automatically filled from the Stock. Once the Stock
- is exhausted, cards to the right of empty piles are automatically
- moved over to fill the space, with empty piles in the right column
- filled in by the cards of the leftmost column in the row below.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Scoring</title>
-
- <para>
- Each pair of cards removed scores two points.
- </para>
- <para>
- Maximum possible score: 52
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Strategy</title>
-
- <para>
- Oftentimes in the middle of this game, there is only one move. Make
- it. Once the Stock is exhausted, there is much more movement in the
- Tableau.
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-