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ace-merlin(6)

Solitaire-games with penguin-look

Part of ace-of-penguins(6).

NAME

ace-of_penguins - Solitaire-games with penguin-look

SYNOPSIS

  ace-canfield
  ace-freecell
  ace-golf
  ace-mastermind
  ace-merlin
  ace-minesweeper
  ace-pegged
  ace-solitaire
  ace-spider
  ace-taipei
  ace-taipedit
  ace-thornq

OPTIONS

None.

DESCRIPTION

From the author's intro.html: "The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the ones available for Windows(tm) but with a number of enhancements that make my wife like my versions better :-)"

ace-canfield

Solitary card-game

ace-freecell

Solitary card-game

ace-spider

Solitary card-game

ace-solitaire

Solitary card-game

ace-thornq

Solitary card-game

ace-golf

Another solitary card-game

ace-mastermind

Guess a secret combination of colors.

ace-merlin

Classical puzzle, rather frustrating.

ace-minesweeper

Find all hidden mines in a minefield.

ace-pegged

Classical board game.

ace-taipei

Asian puzzle, remove pairs of equal stones.

ace-taipedit

Editor for your own ace-taipei levels.

KEYS

All games use the same library of functions and thus the same keys:

F1

Online help.

Esc

Esc or "Q" to leave the game.

NOTES

The upstream author DJ Delorie has written an informative webpage which is installed in /usr/share/doc/ace-of-penguins/intro.html

The original binaries were renamed to include prefix ace-* to avoid name clashes.

BUGS

If you encounter any bugs in this package, please report them to the Debian Bug Tracking System at http://bugs.debian.org/.

ENVIRONMENT

None.

FILES

None.

SEE ALSO

Other games in /usr/games

AUTHORS

Programs are by DJ Delorie, some by Martin Thornquist.

This manual page was written 1999-09-09 by Thimo Neubauer <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Updated 2007-09-03 by Jari Aalto <[email protected]>. Released under license GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version.

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