Poker Solitaire

Poker Solitaire

Poker solataire is a nice cross between poker and solitaire for your paalm.

Poker Solitaire for Palm Pilot

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Copyright 1997 Brad Cleveland, all rights reserved

Software Type: Shareware

Price : $10

Description:

Ftp zip : ftp://ftp.ablecom.net/pub/brad/pilot/pokersol.zip

Web page : http://www.ablecom.net/~brad/

Email : [email protected]

Why Register?

- It's only $10 (US)!

- Registration code to eliminates lockout after trial period

- Free upgrades

- Upgrade information will be sent to you via email

Registering Poker Solitaire:

Online:

- Go to Pilot Gear H.Q. at

http://www2.viaweb.com/pilotgearsw/bradcleveland.html

- Fill in order form. Your pilot user name and email address are

required to receive your registration code. (This is your HotSync

user name, you can also go the the Help Menu and look under

'Register' to find out your user name)

- Pay $10 (US)

Postal Mail:

- Email [email protected] for more information

Entering the registration code:

- Launch Poker Solitaire

- Hit 'Done' to bypass the 'About' screen

- Press the 'Menu' button to show the menu bar

- Select the 'Help' menu

- Select 'Register'

- Enter your registration code in the field labeled 'Registration Code'

- Press 'Enter', you will see a confirmation that your code was accepted.

If there is an error, check that your user name matches the name that

was given to register the program, if it doesn't match, contact the

author via email at [email protected] for a new one.

Playing Poker Solitaire:

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- Starting a New Game

To start a new game tap on the card pile at the top left corner of the screen,

or tap the menu silkscreened button at the bottom left of the pilot and choose

'New Game' from the Game menu. You can also restart a game by choosing 'Restart

Game' from the Game menu.

- Undoing a Card Placement

If you put a card down and made a mistake, you can Undo your placement by either

entering a backspace in the grafitti area, or by choosing 'Undo' from the Game menu.

You can only undo one move, and you cannot undo the final move.

Rules of the Game:

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Poker Solitaire rewards both lucky guessing and accurate calculation of odds.

You deal out 25 cards one by one, placing them in a 5 x 5 square. The skill

arises in picking the best spot for each card. The object is to make as high

a score as possible, counting each row and column as a Poker hand and scoring

as follows:

Straight Flush 30

Four of a Kind 16

Straight 12

Full House 10

Three of a Kind 6

Flush 5

Two Pairs 3

One Pair 1

The hands are not ranked as in Poker, but in accordance with their relative

difficulty in the solitaire game. A straight is hard to make, since if you

play for it you risk making nothing at all or merely 1 for a pair. A full house

is easier, for you can afford to play for it, scoring 6 or 3 if you fail.

Flushes are very easy to make; in fact, the usual plan is to try for flushes in

the columns and full houses or fours in the rows. Most of the time you will make

three or four flushes without giving up any higher-scoring opportunities.

Theoretically, the highest score is 230, but anything over 100 is excellent.