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  • Committer: Package Import Robot
  • Author(s): Jordi Mallach, Jeremy Bicha, Jordi Mallach
  • Date: 2012-04-22 12:49:26 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1)
  • Revision ID: package-import@ubuntu.com-20120422124926-gmr0thwstl91jt1n
Tags: 1:3.4.1-1
[ Jeremy Bicha ]
* New upstream release
* debian/control.in: (Build)-depend on guile-2.0
* debian/*.install: Cards files are now stored as zipped .svg's
* debian/patches/99_format-security.patch: Dropped, applied upstream

[ Jordi Mallach ]
* New upstream release.
* Update copyright to final version of the machine-readable 1.0 spec.
* Bump Standards Version to 3.9.3.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd">
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<sect1 id="Elevator"><!--<sect1info>
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                <copyright>
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                        <year>1999</year>
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                        <holder>Rosanna Yuen</holder>
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                </copyright>
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                <author>
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                        <firstname>Rosanna</firstname>
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                        <surname>Yuen</surname>
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                </author>
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                <address><email>rwsy@mit.edu</email></address>
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        </sect1info>-->
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        <title>Elevator</title>
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        <para>Written by Rosanna Yuen</para>
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                <sect2><title>Setup</title>
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        <informaltable>
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                <tgroup cols="2">
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                        <tbody>
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        <row>
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                <entry>Type of Deck</entry>
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                <entry>Standard Deck</entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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                <entry>Stock</entry>
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                <entry>
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                        Top left pile.  The rest of the deck is placed here after dealing on
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                        to the Tableau.  Cards are turned over one at a time to Waste.  No
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                        redeals.
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                </entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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                <entry>Waste</entry>
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                <entry>
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                        To be taken from Stock.
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                </entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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                <entry>Tableau</entry>
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                <entry>
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                        Deal face down seven overlapping rows starting with one card on the
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                        first row, increasing by one per row and staggering the piles as to
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                        achieve a pyramid.  Flip bottom row.
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                </entry>
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        </row>
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                        </tbody>
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                </tgroup>
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        </informaltable>
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                </sect2>
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        <sect2><title>Goal</title>
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                Move all cards to Waste.
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        </para>
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                </sect2>
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        <sect2><title>Rules</title>
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        <para>
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                All exposed cards in the pyramid are available for play.  Build on to
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                the Waste from these available cards whenever possible by playing a
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                card with a rank immediately above or immediately below the rank of
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                the top card in the Waste.  Aces are both above Kings and below Deuces.
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        <para>
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                Cards can be flipped singly from the Stock to the Waste.  There is no redeal.
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                </sect2>
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        <sect2><title>Scoring</title>
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                Each card removed from the pyramid scores one point.
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        </para>
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        <para>
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                Maximum possible score:  28
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        <sect2><title>Strategy</title>
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                Every pyramid needs a strong foundation.  Get rid of the lower cards
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                first, with an eye out to try to expose as many cards as possible.
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        </para>
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        </sect2>
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</sect1>