MANUAL: 5 OF A KIND THE SCREEN Upon running the program you will be asked if you want a one or two player game. Once done you will see that the top of the screen contains an arrow with the word go, five dice with the 5 of a kind slogan on them, and a stop sign. Below these you will see two complete score forms divided down the middle of the screen. The left form is for player one, the right for player two. Note, if you select one player only, then you will only deal with the left form. The arrow on the left and stop sign on the right switch places in two player mode. When the arrow is on the left side, it is player one's turn. The stop sign (on the right shows that player two must wait). When player one's turn is up, the stop sign and arrow will switch places, showing that it is now player two's turn. When the dice show the 5 of a kind slogan, it means you have not rolled. To do so the player must move the pointing hand (with the mouse) on to the "GO" arrow, and press the left mouse button. To stop the game at any time one merely has to move the pointing hand over the "stop sign" and press the left mouse button. An alert will pop up asking you if you really want to quit. If you click on yes, you will exit to the desk top. A no returns you to the point in the game where you clicked on the "stop sign". Clicking on the stop sign with the right button gives you an option to restart the game. Once you have click on the "go" arrow, (for player one, it will be to the left, for player two, the right.) you will hear sounds of the dice being rolled, after which the roll will be displayed on the screen, replacing the 5 of a kind slogan. To reroll certain dice, position the pointing hand over the desired dice and press the left mouse button, the dice will be replaced by another "go" arrow. Clicking on the "go" arrow will cause the dice to be shown again. Clicking on the original "go" arrow, (to the very left for player one, the very right, for player two.) will cause all of the "go" dice to be rerolled and redisplayed. You can roll the dice up to three times, this includes your original roll. Once you have rolled three times or you like the dice you have, you must move the pointing hand over a desired row, and click with the left mouse button. This puts the points you have earned into that row. For example if you have five 5's and you click on the 5 of a kind roll, the zero will be replaced by 50. The total at the bottom reflects this addition. Because the program calculates totals after every turn, blank rows have blue zero's in them. In the above example the blue zero would be replaced by a gray 50. However if you only had four 5's and you clicked on 5 of a kind, the blue zero would be replaced by a gray zero. This means that you didn't score any points but did use the 5 of a kind row. Hence you can not select 5 of a kind again during this game. Player one and two must share the mouse, you can tell who's turn it is by the "go" arrow at the top of the screen, when the arrow is on the extreame left it is player one's turn, when it is on the extreame right, it is player two's turn. Note, when selecting a scoring row, it doesn't matter which form you use, the computer will atomatically score for the correct player, just remember to keep the tip of the pointing hand (it's finger.) within the correct row. The turns rotate, first player one then player two, until you have completed the game. Once you have filled your last row, or player two has scored his last roll when in two player mode, a short pause, will be followed by your average line score, this is your bottom total divided by 13 the number of rows you can score in. The alert will also contain a comment about that game. If you had a game total of 52 your average per line would be four, and below this average it would tell you to "RETIRE!", this gives you a basis for figuring out how well you did. After giving your average, an alert will pop up asking if you wish to play again. Selecting "yes" will return you to the begining alert for one or two players, if you select "no" then you will return to the desk top. THE RULES The object of the game is to roll the dice to fill your rows with points and try to get as high a score as possible. To get on a row some criteria must be met otherwise you get no points no rules for the rows are as follows; one's - sixes: You get 1-6 points per die (respectively) that you have currently on the screen. ie: if you roll 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, clicking on the one's row will result in a score of one for that row. Clicking on the five's row will result in a score of five and clicking in the sixes row will result in a zero for that row the reason being that there are no sixe currently on the dice. 3 of a kind: This row score the total of your dice added together, you must have three numbers the same to get points. 4 of a kind: Same as 3 of a kind, except you need 4 matching dice to get points. full house: You get 25 pts. for getting three matching dice say 4's, and two matching dice say sixes. This format is strict, have 5 identical dice will not give you points in this row, it must be 3:2 to get 25 pts. small straight: You need a roll of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 2, 3, 4, 5, or 3, 4, 5, 6 to get 20 pts. large straight: You need a roll of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to get 30 pts. chance: You get the total of your roll in this row, this is mainly a safty. Say for example you were trying to get 4 of a kind but missed, you could click on this row to score for the sum of the dice. That way you don't score zero in the four of a kind row. In other words, you get another chance. 5 of a kind: You get 50 pts. for having 5 matching dice. COPYRIGHT This game is the sole property of the author. Any reproduction copying or alterations on any media for profit or otherwise is strictly prohibited except by permission of the author. This game was programmed in JUNE, 1990 by Erin Monaco. It was programmed and compiled using GFA-BASIC 3.0. ERIN MONACO 1240 Leforge APT. P4 Ypsilanti, MI 48197 NOTE: THIS DOC FILE IS NEEDED TO RUN 5 OF A KIND BY ERIN MONACO It must accompany the 5OFAKIND.PRG and 5OFAKIND.DAT. It must reside in the root directory or in a folder \5OFAKIND\. The program looks for all files on the disk in drive A. Hence all files must be in drive A. If you have a disk editor you can change the drive by going a couple of sectors from the end of the program and changing the A:'s to B:'s, C:'s and etc. It is therefore possible to have files in different drives, but for simplicity's sake it is easiest to keep all the files confined to one drive in the root directory, or in a folder named 5OFAKIND. Thank You