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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="Thieves"><!--<sect1info>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>1999</year>
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      <holder>Robert Brady</holder>
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    </copyright>
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    <author>
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      <firstname>Robert</firstname>
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      <surname>Brady</surname>
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    </author>
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    <address>
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      <email>rwb197@ecs.soton.ac.uk</email>
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    </address>
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  </sect1info>-->
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  <title>Thieves</title>
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  <para>Written by Robert Brady</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>Joker Deck</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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            Seven piles of five cards each, face up.
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          </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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            Place all remaining cards here.  Cards are turned over one
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            at a time to Waste.  No 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.  Top card available for play.
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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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  <para>
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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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    The Waste can be built up or down from the available cards on the
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    Tableau.  Jokers are wild and can be played on any rank as well as
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    be played upon by a card of any rank.
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  </para>
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  <para>
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    At any point, a card can be dealt from the Stock to the Waste.
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          </sect2>
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        <sect2><title>Scoring</title>
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  <para>
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    The following table shows the points you receive for each type of card.
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    No points are scored for jokers.
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  <informaltable>
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      <thead>
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        <row>
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          <entry>Card</entry>
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          <entry>Points</entry>
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        </row>
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      </thead>
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      <tbody>
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        <row>
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          <entry>Ace</entry>
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          <entry>8</entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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          <entry>2, 3</entry>
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          <entry>6</entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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          <entry>4, 5</entry>
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          <entry>4</entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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          <entry>6, 7, 8</entry>
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          <entry>2</entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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          <entry>9, 10</entry>
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          <entry>4</entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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          <entry>Queen</entry>
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          <entry>6</entry>
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        </row>
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        <row>
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          <entry>King</entry>
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          <entry>8</entry>
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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>Strategy</title>
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    Since you can see all the cards on the Tableau, try to engineer
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    `runs', to try and get rid of as many cards up there as possible, as
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    you only have a finite supply of cards in Stock.
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        </sect2>
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</sect1>