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CANFIELD(6)			  Games	Manual			   CANFIELD(6)

NAME
       canfield, cfscores -- the solitaire card	game canfield

SYNOPSIS
       canfield
       cfscores	[-a] [user]

DESCRIPTION
       If  you	have never played solitaire before, it is recommended that you
       consult a solitaire instruction book. In	Canfield, tableau cards	may be
       built on	each other downward in alternate colors. An entire  pile  must
       be moved	as a unit in building. Top cards of the	piles are available to
       be played on foundations, but never into	empty spaces.

       Spaces must be filled from the stock. The top card of the stock also is
       available  to be	played on foundations or built on tableau piles. After
       the stock is exhausted, tableau spaces may be filled from the talon and
       the player may keep them	open until he wishes to	use them.

       Cards are dealt from the	hand to	the talon by threes and	 this  repeats
       until there are no more cards in	the hand or the	player quits.  To have
       cards dealt onto	the talon the player types `ht'	for his	move.  Founda-
       tion  base  cards  are  also automatically moved	to the foundation when
       they become available.

       The command `c' causes canfield to maintain card	counting statistics on
       the bottom of the screen.  When properly	used this can greatly increase
       one's chances of	winning.

       The rules for betting are somewhat less strict than those used  in  the
       official	 version  of  the  game.  The initial deal costs $13.  You may
       quit at this point or inspect the game.	Inspection costs $13  and  al-
       lows  you  to  make  as many moves as possible without moving any cards
       from your hand to the talon.  (The initial deal places three  cards  on
       the talon; if all these cards are used, three more are made available.)
       Finally,	if the game seems interesting, you must	pay the	final install-
       ment of $26.  At	this point you are credited at the rate	of $5 for each
       card on the foundation; as the game progresses you are credited with $5
       for  each  card	that is	moved to the foundation.  Each run through the
       hand after the first costs $5.  The card	counting feature costs $1  for
       each  unknown  card  that is identified.	 If the	information is toggled
       on, you are only	charged	for cards that became  visible	since  it  was
       last  turned on.	 Thus the maximum cost of information is $34.  Playing
       time is charged at a rate of $1 per minute.

       With no arguments, the program cfscores prints out the  current	status
       of  your	 canfield account.  If a user name is specified, it prints out
       the status of their canfield account.  If the -a	flag is	specified,  it
       prints  out  the	 canfield  accounts for	all users that have played the
       game since the database was set up.

FILES
       /usr/local/bin/canfield	the game itself
       /usr/local/bin/cfscores	the database printer
       /var/games/cfscores	the database of	scores

AUTHORS
       Originally written: Steve Levine

       Further random hacking by: Steve	Feldman, Kirk McKusick,	 Mikey	Olson,
       and Eric	Allman.

BUGS
       It is impossible	to cheat.

FreeBSD	Ports 14.quarterly	 May 31, 1993			   CANFIELD(6)

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