# Spider

## The Ace of Penguins

## `Spider`

Copyright © 2008 by Eric Bachalo

Copyright © 2008 by DJ Delorie `
http://www.delorie.com/`

Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, see http://www.gnu.org/ for details.

If you enjoy this game, please send a donation (any size) to DJ Delorie. See http://www.delorie.com/donations.html for details.

# Goal

## The Goal

The goal of `spider` is to move all the cards to the eight stacks in the upper right of the window.

# Play

## How to Play

Build down regardless of suit. Sequences of cards in the same suit can be moved as a unit. Empty piles can be filled with any card or legal sequence.

Clicking on the Stock pile at any time deals a card face up to every pile. However, all piles must be non-empty. If an empty pile exists, an error message will appear.

A sequence of cards going down from King down to Ace can be moved to a foundation pile. Once there, these cards are no longer in play.

# Options

## One Suit : press 1

The deck is an octuple deck of Hearts only. This is the simplest of the spider decks and a good way to learn the basics.

## Two Suits : press 2

The deck is a quadruple deck of Hearts and Clubs only. There are four complete sequences of cards for each suit. This is not quite as diabolical as the standard four suit spider deck.

## Four Suits : press 4

The deck is a standard double deck. There are two complete sequences of cards for each suit. This is the standard Spider deck. It is also the most difficult.

# Mouse

## Using the Mouse

The left button is used to move cards around. Move the mouse over the card, press and hold the left button, and move the mouse. The cards follow the mouse. Note that the number of cards you carry automatically varies as you move it over the various stacks; this indicates how many cards you may drop on that stack.

The right button can be used to "peek" at an obscured card.

# Keys

## Using the Keyboard

The `q` `Esc` and `Ctrl-C` keys quit the game. The `F2` key restarts the game. The `F1` key shows this help.

The "`1`" key selects the "One Suit" version of spider.

The "`2`" key selects the "Two Suits" version of spider.

The "`4`" key selects the "Ffour Suits" version of spider.

The "`a`" key toggles the suggestion arrows.

When viewing help, the space bar, `F1` or `Esc` return you to your game. Numbers show that section (0 for any pre-header section). Letters show section starting with that letter.

# Credits

The Ace of Penguins system was written by DJ Delorie so that my wife Pat could play her favorite Windows 95 games on my Linux laptop. She gets credit for hours of testing `;-)`

Many thanks to the SGI, Linux, and GNU developers, for the tools and systems I use.

Special thanks to Rebecca, for showing that `test2` was a useful program.