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6 AisleRiot - a collection of card games which are easy to play with the
7 aid of a mouse.
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11 sol [options]
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15 This manual page documents briefly the sol command. For more informa‐
16 tion, please refer to the excellent GNOME help for AisleRiot
17 AisleRiot (also known as Solitaire or sol) is a collection of card
20 games which are easy to play with the aid of a mouse. The rules for
21 the games have been coded for your pleasure in the GNOME scripting lan‐
22 guage (Scheme).
23 The following games can be selected from within the program, or by
25 using a command line switch:
26 Peek, Auld Lang Syne, Fortunes, Seahaven, King Albert, First
28 Law, Straight Up, Jumbo, Accordion, Ten Across, Plait, Lady
29 Jane, Gypsy, Neighbor, Jamestown, Osmosis, Kings Audience, Glen‐
30 wood, Gay Gordons, Monte Carlo, Kansas, Camelot, Fourteen, Scor‐
31 pion, Isabel, Escalator, Agnes, Bristol, Quatorze, Bear River,
32 Gold Mine, Athena, Spiderette, Chessboard, Backbone, Yukon,
33 Union Square, Eight Off, Napoleons Tomb, Forty Thieves, Streets
34 And Alleys, Maze, Clock, Pileon, Canfield, Thirteen, Bakers
35 Game, Triple Peaks, Easthaven, Terrace, Aunt Mary, Carpet, Sir
36 Tommy, Diamond Mine, Yield, Labyrinth, Thieves, Saratoga, Cruel,
37 Block Ten, Will O The Wisp, Odessa, Eagle Wing, Treize, Zebra,
38 Cover, Elevator, Fortress, Giant, Spider, Gaps, Bakers Dozen,
39 Whitehead, Freecell, Helsinki, Spider Three Decks, Scuffle,
40 Poker, Klondike Three Decks, Valentine, Royal East, Thumb And
41 Pouch, Klondike, Doublets, Template, Golf, Westhaven, Belea‐
42 guered Castle, Hopscotch, Eliminator, Aunt Mary, Hamilton, Wall
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46 AisleRiot accepts the following options, besides the usual Gtk+/GNOME
47 switches:
48 -v, --variation=NAME
50 Select the game to play
51 --display=DISPLAY
53 X display to use
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57 This text is taken verbatim from the AisleRiot Manual V2.12.
58 Moving the cards is reasonably obvious. Assuming you have a right-
60 handed mouse, left-click on a card and drag it somewhere. Release the
61 mouse button to deposit the card.
62 If a card can be moved to the foundation(s), you do not need to drag
64 it. You can double-click on it and it will move. If a sequence of cards
65 can be moved to the foundations, you can generally move the sequence as
66 one move.
67 Double clicking a card will send it to a foundation, if that is possi‐
69 ble. This is useful for cleaning up large numbers of cards at the end
70 of a successful game.
71 In games which have a stock pile you can redeal it by clicking on the
73 empty space where it was. Be warned that some games only let you do
74 this a limited number of time. Watch for the Redeals Left message at
75 the bottom of the window.
76 A useful tip to know is that right-clicking on a face-up card which is
78 partially obscured by a card laid over it will raise it so that you can
79 see what it is.
80 There is an alternative way to move cards. By selecting Click to move
82 from the Control menu you can click once to pick up a card and then
83 click again to place it. This can be faster than dragging and will be
84 easier on your hand since you don't have to hold the mouse down. How‐
85 ever, it may take a while to get used to.
86 Some games have options to change the way the game is played. For exam‐
88 ple Klondike can be played with either single card deals or three-card
89 deals. In these games there is a separate menu with the game's name.
90 You can only change the rules of the game at the beginning of the game
91 -- the menu will be inactive during the game.
92 Statistics on how well you have done at a particular game are available
94 by selecting Statistics from the Game menu. Only games where you actu‐
95 ally start moving cards are counted. The statistics are here for your
96 own enjoyment, there are numerous ways to cheat and it is unwise to
97 make comparisons.
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101 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Aisleriot
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105 This manual page was written by Martin Ferrari <martin.fer‐
106 rari@gmail.com>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).
107 You can find the list of authors and more information about AisleRiot
108 in /usr/share/doc/aisleriot.
109AisleRiot March 22, 2007 SOL(6)