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Poker Solitaire
version 2.0
Copyright (C) 1990 EM Software
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INTRODUCTION
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Poker Solitaire, sometimes called Poker Squares, is a solitaire
card game that rewards both lucky guessing and accurate
calculation of odds. Card games, by their very nature, are very
well suited for computer adaptations, since the computer can
take care of tedious tasks such as dealing the cards, keeping
track of legal moves, and score-keeping, leaving the player
free to concentrate on the game itself. After writing a set of
routines to draw high-resolution cards for use in my Klondike
program, I decided to explore other solitaire card games, and
as a result Poker Solitaire 1.1 was released on November 1988.
This is a major revision of the original Poker Solitaire
program. The graphics routines are better and faster, the user
interface is much more polished, and new variations and scoring
options have been included. While there are some IBM-PC
implementations of Poker Solitaire available both as public
domain or shareware programs, I feel that this is by far the
best one around. I hope you will enjoy Poker Solitaire 2.0, and
encourage the development of high-quality shareware programs by
sending the enclosed registration form and the $15 registration
fee. A little plug: if you enjoy solitaire games, chances are
you will like my other games, Klondike (current version as of
May 1990 is 3.0) and Pyramid (current version is 1.0). They can
be found on CompuServe, GEnie, or several Bulletin Board Systems.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Poker Solitaire 2.0 runs on an IBM-PC or compatible running
under MS-DOS 2.0 or greater, with at least 384 KBytes of memory
available and an EGA or VGA display adapter and monitor. A
Microsoft-compatible mouse is strongly recommended but not
required. If you want to use the mouse, the mouse driver
(usually called MOUSE.SYS or MOUSE.COM) must be installed
before you run Poker Solitaire; please refer to your mouse
documentation for instructions. Make sure that the files
POKER.EXE, POKER.PCL and POKER.HLP are all on the current
directory. If you are running Poker Solitaire from a floppy
disk, make sure that the disk is not write-protected, since the
program writes configuration information and the high scores to
disk.
Poker Solitaire 2
POKER SOLITAIRE RULES
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One regular pack is used. Shuffle the pack and deal the first
twenty-five cards one by one, placing them in a 5 x 5 square.
Each card may be placed anywhere within the square. Once
placed, a card cannot be moved. The object of the game is to
make as high a score as possible, counting each row and column
as a Poker hand. Two scoring systems, the American and the
English, are prevalent. The American system follows the ranking
of hands in the game of Poker, while the English system is
based on the relative difficulty of forming the hands in Poker
Solitaire.
Hand American English
Royal Flush 100 30
Straight Flush 75 30
Four of a Kind 50 16
Full House 25 10
Flush 20 5
Straight 15 12
Three of a Kind 10 6
Two Pairs 5 3
One Pair 2 1
A straight is hard to make, for if you play for it you risk
making nothing at all or merely a pair. A full house is easier
(and thus worth less points in the English scoring system), for
you can afford to play for it and make Three of a Kind or Two
Pairs if you fail. Flushes are very easy to make (note that
they are worth less than Three of a Kind in the English
system). The usual strategy is to try for flushes in the
columns and full houses or fours on the rows. You may consider
that you have won the game if you total 200 (American) or 70
(English) points.
Variations
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There are two popular variations, both of them included in
Poker Solitaire 2.0. On Variation No. 1, each card must be
placed vertically, laterally or diagonally adjacent to a card
previously placed. On Variation No. 2, all 25 cards are spread
face up and then placed on the grid. Each variation can be
played using either the American or English scoring system,
thus making for six different games! Variation No. 1 is
obviously the hardest of the three possible modes, since it
places a restriction on where you can put the cards, while
Variation No. 2 is the easiest, since you know beforehand all
25 cards you will be using.
Poker Solitaire 3
GAME PLAY - MOUSE
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The standard game and Variation No. 1 are played much in the
same way, except that on the standard game you can place a card
on any empty square on the grid, while on Variation No. 1 a
card must be placed on a square adjacent to a previously placed
card. Variation No. 2 plays a bit differently, and will be
dealt with separately.
Standard Game and Variation No. 1
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To turn a card face up, either place the mouse cursor over it
and press the left mouse button, or simply press the right
mouse button. Using the right mouse button has the advantage
that you do not have to place the cursor over the card, thus
avoiding moving back and forth between the 5 x 5 grid and the
Pack area.
Once a card has been turned up, place it on the grid by placing
the mouse cursor where you wa