4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat6/cribbage.0

CRIBBAGE(6)                                                        CRIBBAGE(6)


NAME
       cribbage - the card game cribbage

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/games/cribbage [ -req ] name ...

DESCRIPTION
       Cribbage  plays  the  card  game cribbage, with the program playing one
       hand and the user the other.  The program will initially ask  the  user
       if  the  rules  of  the  game are needed - if so, it will print out the
       appropriate section from According to Hoyle with more (I).

       Cribbage options include:

       -e     When the player makes a mistake scoring his hand or  crib,  pro‐
              vide  an  explanation of the correct score.  (This is especially
              useful for beginning players.)

       -q     Print a shorter form of all messages - this is only  recommended
              for  users  who  have  played  the  game without specifying this
              option.

       -r     Instead of asking the player to cut the deck, the  program  will
              randomly cut the deck.

       Cribbage  first  asks the player whether he wishes to play a short game
       (“once around”, to 61) or a long game  (“twice  around”,  to  121).   A
       response  of  ‘s’  will result in a short game, any other response will
       play a long game.

       At the start of the first game, the program asks the player to cut  the
       deck  to  determine  who  gets the first crib.  The user should respond
       with a number between 0 and 51, indicating how many cards down the deck
       is to be cut.  The player who cuts the lower ranked card gets the first
       crib.  If more than one game is played, the loser of the previous  game
       gets the first crib in the current game.

       For  each  hand, the program first prints the player’s hand, whose crib
       it is, and then asks the player to discard two  cards  into  the  crib.
       The  cards  are  prompted  for one per line, and are typed as explained
       below.

       After discarding, the program cuts the deck  (if  it  is  the  player’s
       crib)  or  asks  the  player to cut the deck (if it’s its crib); in the
       latter case, the appropriate response is a number from 0 to 39 indicat‐
       ing how far down the remaining 40 cards are to be cut.

       After cutting the deck, play starts with the non-dealer (the person who
       doesn’t have the crib) leading the first card.  Play continues, as  per
       cribbage,  until  all  cards are exhausted.  The program keeps track of
       the scoring of all points and the total of the cards on the table.

       After play, the hands are scored.  The program requests the  player  to
       score  his hand (and the crib, if it is his) by printing out the appro‐
       priate cards (and the cut card enclosed in brackets).   Play  continues
       until one player reaches the game limit (61 or 121).

       A  carriage  return  when  a numeric input is expected is equivalent to
       typing the lowest legal value; when cutting the deck this is equivalent
       to choosing the top card.

       Cards  are  specified  as  rank  followed  by  suit.   The ranks may be
       specified as one of: ‘a’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’, ‘7’, ‘8’, ‘9’,  ‘t’,
       ‘j’,  ‘q’,  and  ‘k’,  or alternatively, one of: “ace”, “two”, “three”,
       “four”,  “five”,  “six”,  “seven”,  “eight”,  “nine”,  “ten”,   “jack”,
       “queen”,  and  “king”.   Suits  may be specified as: ‘s’, ‘h’, ‘d’, and
       ‘c’, or alternatively as: “spades”, “hearts”, “diamonds”, and  “clubs”.
       A  card  may  be  specified  as:  <rank>  “ ” <suit>, or: <rank> “ of ”
       <suit>.  If the single letter rank and suit designations are used,  the
       space  separating the suit and rank may be left out.  Also, if only one
       card of the desired rank is playable, typing the  rank  is  sufficient.
       For  example,  if  your  hand  was  “2H, 4D, 5C, 6H, JC, KD” and it was
       desired to discard the king of diamonds, any of the following could  be
       typed:  “k”,  “king”,  “kd”, “k d”, “k of d”, “king d”, “king of d”, “k
       diamonds”, “k of diamonds”, “king diamonds”, or “king of diamonds”.

FILES
       /usr/games/cribbage

AUTHORS
       Earl T. Cohen wrote the logic.  Ken Arnold added  the  screen  oriented
       interface.


4th Berkeley Distribution         May 6, 1986                      CRIBBAGE(6)