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- Tablenette (Vers 1.0)
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- Developed for Christmas 1991.
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- Tablenette is released into the Public Domain and contains the
- Visual Basic Source code, not well documented and could well be
- improved. Hope it shows how far you can go though.
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- The Game
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- Tablenette is a game for 2 players, in this case the computer and you.
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- 6 cards are dealt to each player. 4 cards to the table, Jacks are not
- dealt to the table but placed on the bottom of the deck.
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- Non dealer plays first.
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- The object of the game is to remove cards from the table if possible.
- Cards can be removed if the following is true
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- 1. Cards are of equal rank to the card played.
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- A player may remove as many cards of equal rank as are on
- the table.
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- 2. 2 cards add up to the same value as the card played.
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- Card Values are 2-10 Face Value, Ace 1 or 11, Jack 12,
- Queen 13, King 14. (Note Jacks are special see later).
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- A player may only remove 1 set of equal value cards,
- but can remove cards of equal rank at the same time.
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- Points are scored as follows for removed cards(including played card):
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- Ace, King, Queen, Jack 1 Point
- 10's(except 10 Diamonds) 1 point
- 2 clubs 1 point
- 10 Diamonds 2 points
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- Removing all the cards from the table scores "Tablenette" and
- gains the player the face value of all cards involved.
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- Examples:
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- Table 10 Diamonds, 4 Spades, K Hearts, K Spades
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- Player 3 Diamonds, 6 Hearts, K Clubs, 10 Clubs, 8 Diamonds, A Spades
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- Alternative 1 --- Play 10 Clubs(remove 10 Spades)
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- Points scored 10 Diamonds 2
- 10 Clubs 1
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- Total 3
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- Alternative 2 --- Play K Clubs(Remove All cards 10+4=14)
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- Points Scored 10 Diamonds 2
- K Spades 1
- K Hearts 1
- K Clubs 1
- 4 Spades 0
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- Tablenette
- 10 Diamonds 10
- K Spades 14
- K Hearts 14
- K Clubs 14
- 4 Spades 4
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- Total 61
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- Therefore true object of the game is to clear the table as
- often as possible.
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- If you cannot, or do not wish to play a card(i.e playing a card leaves
- only 1 high card on table, giving opponent high chance to score
- Tablenette) then a card must be played to table, at the end of the
- existing cards.
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- Jacks
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- A Jack when played clears the table, however it does not score Tablenette.
- This forces opponent to play a single card to table giving you a good
- chance to score Tablenette.
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- Once both players have played their 6 cards, 6 more are dealt to each
- player until the deck is empty.
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- When the last card in the deck is played any cards remaining on table are
- picked up by the player who last picked up from the table.
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- If any player has pick up more than 27 cards 3 points are added to their
- score.
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- When the deck is empty the player with the highest score over 251 wins. If
- no one has greater than 251 play continues with a new dealer.
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- Tactics
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- 1. Play Jacks early in hand
- 2. Try not to leave 1 high card on table
- (unless 2 or 3 are already played)
- 3. With 1 card on table if you have to discard then
- try to score 12(since Jacks are special no card can
- clear 12 and score Tablenette) or over 14.
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- Method of Play in the game:
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- To Play drag your card to any of the face up table cards.
- To Discard drag your card to the face down card.
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- The Code
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- This game has been developed using MS Visual Basic and requires
- the following DLL's VBRUN100.DLL and VBCARDS.DLL both of which can be
- found on the CompuServe MSBASIC forum.
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- The Warrenty
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- There is None, use at your own risk.
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- Bugs
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- We have played with the game for a while with no problems, however we are
- interested in stamping out the bugs as they arise, so if you get problems
- contact us via CompuServe mail as below. Suggestions and Improvements
- are also welcome.
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- The Company
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- Sycomp Limited
- 1 Stonecross
- St. Albans
- Herts, ENGLAND AL1 4AA
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- Tel: UK (0727) 47806
- Intl +44 727 47806
- Fax: UK (0727) 834052
- Intl +44 727 834052
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- Compuserve Mail: 100020,3472
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- We are specialist developers in the following areas:-
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- Graphical and Client Server Systems using MS Visual Basic, MS Quick C/Win,
- IS/2, SQL Server & IBM's Database Manager.