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Towers Solitaire

About Towers Solitaire

Startup

The Object

The Deal

The Play

Scoring

Saving & Opening games

Redeal

Undo

New Game

Setup

Please  be aware that Towers Solitaire works best with your vidio driver set to 800 X 600 pixels.  Sorry.


 About Towers Solitaire

Towers Solitaire was developed using "qbcards.dll" (qbcards.dll: public domain file written by Stephen Murphy).  Towers Solitaire is a Shareware solitaire game written by myself, Joe Kamphaus.  I wrote this program  for my wife Debby, and would like to thank her for all her encouragement (putting up with me all the time at the computer).  I worked long and hard to complete this program just the way she wanted it.  You have my permision to use this game for a trial period of 30 days.  If you like the game please register by sending $10 U.S. (its worth a lot more) along with your E-mail address and somthing with the words Towers Solitaire to:

Joe Kamphaus

2295 Blue Lake ln.

Boise, ID  83705

I will E-mail you the code, to remove that "Nag" screen forever.

If you don't like the game delete it from you hard drive and/or floppy('s) and forget about it.

You may E-mail me at kamph@idibbs.com

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I will accept no responsibility for any damage caused to the user's software or hardware by Towers Solitaire.  I won't even guarantee that this program will even work at all.  The user accepts all responsibility by using this program.

The Object of Towers Solitaire


The Objict of Towers Solitaire

The Object of Towers Solitaire

Move all the cards to their Suit Towers in order from smallest to largest.  For example, Ace, 2, 3, 4, etc.  Actually Towers Solitaire moves the cards to the Suit Towers for you.  Your challenge is to manipulate the cards in the Playing Towers and the Holding Towers, so that cards will be free to be played automatically.  Only the top cards of the Playing and Holding Towers may be played.

The top of the screen has 8 towers.  Four suit towers, and four holding towers.  The first tower is the Spades tower, then the Hearts tower.  The next four piles are the holding towers.  The last 2 towers are Diamonds and Clubs respectively.  There are 10 playing towers across the screen below the suit and holding towers.

The Deal

The Play


The Deal

All 52 cards are dealt face up, five cards in each of the ten playing towers, and the remaining two cards are dealt in the center two holding towers.

There may be some hidden cards depending on you screen size and video capabilities etc. (especially aces).  You can find out the value and suit of any card in the playing towers by holding the left mouse button down over the card.  The value and suit are displayed on the caption bar at the bottom of the screen.

The holding towers may only hold one card at a time.

The Playing towers may hold as many cards as can be played on them.

The suit towers will fill up starting with the aces automatically after each move.

The Play


The Play

Moving cards is accomplished by pressing the left mouse button down over the card to be moved and dragging over the place to be moved to.  You may only move one card at a time.

The holding towers may only hold one card at a time.

The Playing towers may hold as many cards as can be played on them.

You may move one card at a time, to either an empty holding tower, or to the next highest card of the same suit in the playing towers.  A king may be moved to an empty playing tower, or to an empty holding tower.

        |                 |                                  |                 |                   |                  |                                |                  |

   Spades     Hearts                                          Holding Towers                                          Diamonds    Clubs

     Suit Towers                                                                                                                            Suit Towers

After each move Towers Solitaire moves all the cards that will play to the suit towers for you.

The Holding Towers are used to hold card temporarily; until it can be played on a Playing Tower or it is played automatically on one of the Suit Towers.

If you can't tell what a card is, just click on it and the caption bar at the bottom of the screen will display it.

You may Start the game over by selecting ReDeal.  You may cancel the last move by selecting UnDo.

Scoring


Scoring

Towers Solitaire keeps track of each players wins and losses and the win to loss ratio.

You may see you score by selecting Statistics from the menu bar.

You may Clear you score by Selecting "Cancel" from the Statistics information box..

If you win a game Towers Solitaire will add a game to your wins, and ask you if you want to play another game.

Any time you select New Game from the menu bar Towers Solitaire will add a game to your losses.

Saving :  Towers Solitaire will automatically save the game for you when you exit.

Selecting Redeal from the menu bar will not change your score.

Selecting UnDo from the menu bar will not change your score.


Opening and Saving Games

Opening Games

When Towers Solitaire is loaded, a list box is opened with all the players listed.  Select your name or "(New Player)" and enter your name.  At this time your game will start up where you left off, or for a new player a new game will start.

Saving Games

Towers Solitaire automatically saves the game when you exit.  The next time you play the game will start up where you left off.  However the undo option will not work until after you have made at least one move.

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Redeal

Selecting Redeal from the menu bar starts the same game over again and will not change your scoring.


New Game

Selecting New Game from the menu bar will deal a new hand and count the current game as a loss.


UnDo

Selecting UnDo from the menu bar will undo the last move.  You must not click on any other playable cards before you select UnDo, or it will not work.


Setup

Selecting Setup from the menu bar will bring up a dialog box to let you select the background color and the style of cardbacks that will be used in the empty suit and holding towers.


Startup

When Towers Solitaire is loaded it a list of players is in the center of the screen.  You should select your name, or alternatively, select (new player) and enter your name.  This is so Towers Solitaire can keep track of several player's scores at once.

You may change the background color and the card place designs by selecting Setup from the menu bar.

The Object

The Deal

The Play

Scoring