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AisleRiot - a collection of card games which are easy to play with the
aid of a mouse.
SYNOPSISsol [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the sol command. For more informa‐
tion, please refer to the excellent GNOME help for AisleRiot
AisleRiot (also known as Solitaire or sol) is a collection of card
games which are easy to play with the aid of a mouse. The rules for
the games have been coded for your pleasure in the GNOME scripting lan‐
guage (Scheme). It is part of the gnome-games package.
The following games can be selected from within the program, or by
using a command line switch:
Peek, Auld Lang Syne, Fortunes, Seahaven, King Albert, First
Law, Straight Up, Jumbo, Accordion, Ten Across, Plait, Lady
Jane, Gypsy, Neighbor, Jamestown, Osmosis, Kings Audience, Glen‐
wood, Gay Gordons, Monte Carlo, Kansas, Camelot, Fourteen, Scor‐
pion, Isabel, Escalator, Agnes, Bristol, Quatorze, Bear River,
Gold Mine, Athena, Spiderette, Chessboard, Backbone, Yukon,
Union Square, Eight Off, Napoleons Tomb, Forty Thieves, Streets
And Alleys, Maze, Clock, Pileon, Canfield, Thirteen, Bakers
Game, Triple Peaks, Easthaven, Terrace, Aunt Mary, Carpet, Sir
Tommy, Diamond Mine, Yield, Labyrinth, Thieves, Saratoga, Cruel,
Block Ten, Will O The Wisp, Odessa, Eagle Wing, Treize, Zebra,
Cover, Elevator, Fortress, Giant, Spider, Gaps, Bakers Dozen,
Whitehead, Freecell, Helsinki, Spider Three Decks, Scuffle,
Poker, Klondike Three Decks, Valentine, Royal East, Thumb And
Pouch, Klondike, Doublets, Template, Golf, Westhaven, Belea‐
guered Castle, Hopscotch
OPTIONS
AisleRiot accepts the following options, besides the usual Gtk+/GNOME
switches:
-v, --variation=NAME
Select the game to play
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
USAGE
This text is taken verbatim from the AisleRiot Manual V2.12.
Moving the cards is reasonably obvious. Assuming you have a right-
handed mouse, left-click on a card and drag it somewhere. Release the
mouse button to deposit the card.
If a card can be moved to the foundation(s), you do not need to drag
it. You can double-click on it and it will move. If a sequence of cards
can be moved to the foundations, you can generally move the sequence as
one move.
Double clicking a card will send it to a foundation, if that is possi‐
ble. This is useful for cleaning up large numbers of cards at the end
of a successful game.
In games which have a stock pile you can redeal it by clicking on the
empty space where it was. Be warned that some games only let you do
this a limited number of time. Watch for the Redeals Left message at
the bottom of the window.
A useful tip to know is that right-clicking on a face-up card which is
partially obscured by a card laid over it will raise it so that you can
see what it is.
There is an alternative way to move cards. By selecting Click to move
from the Control menu you can click once to pick up a card and then
click again to place it. This can be faster than dragging and will be
easier on your hand since you don't have to hold the mouse down. How‐
ever, it may take a while to get used to.
Some games have options to change the way the game is played. For exam‐
ple Klondike can be played with either single card deals or three-card
deals. In these games there is a separate menu with the game's name.
You can only change the rules of the game at the beginning of the game
-- the menu will be inactive during the game.
Statistics on how well you have done at a particular game are available
by selecting Statistics from the Game menu. Only games where you actu‐
ally start moving cards are counted. The statistics are here for your
own enjoyment, there are numerous ways to cheat and it is unwise to
make comparisons.
HOMEPAGE
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-games/
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Martin Ferrari <martin.fer‐
rari@gmail.com>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).
You can find the list of authors and more information about AisleRiot
in /usr/share/doc/gnome-games.
AisleRiot March 22, 2007 SOL(6)
