Contents for Flowers Help

How to Play

Selecting a Piece

Rotating a Piece

Placing a Piece

Picking a Piece

Passing

Scoring

How the Game Ends

Changing the Rules

Changing the Speed

Easy/Normal/Hard Mode

Freeware

No Warranty


How to Play

Both players will be dealt 7 pieces at the beginning of the round.  You start the first round by placing a piece anywhere on the board.  Then it's the computer's turn etc.

After a  piece has been placed on the board, no other piece can be placed next to it unless the touching flowers' colors match.

Every piece (not counting the first piece of a round) must be put at a place where

- it is side by side to an earlier piece or

- two of its corners touch some earlier pieces.

A round ends as one of the players puts his/hers/its last piece, or if the players pas one after another.

The computer will start every other round.

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Selecting a Piece

Rotating a Piece

Placing a Piece

Picking a Piece

Passing

Scoring

How the Game Ends


Selecting a Piece

Your pieces are in the rectangular black area on the bottom of the window.

You can select one of them by clicking the left mouse button on it.

The yellow arrow will indicate the selection.

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Rotating a Piece


Rotating a Piece

You can rotate the selected piece by clicking the right mouse button.

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Selecting a Piece


Placing a Piece

You can place the selected piece on the board (the big black area) by clicking the left mouse button at the chosen place.  The piece must naturally fit at that place, and it must have been rotated to the right position.

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How to Play

Selecting a Piece

Rotating a Piece


Picking a Piece

You can pick a piece (if there is any unused) by pressing the "Pick piece"-button.  You can't have more than 10 pieces at a time.

After picking a piece, you can place a piece on the board, pick another one, or pas.


Passing

If you can't, or don't want to put any piece at your turn you can pas by pressing the "Pas"-button.

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Picking a Piece


Scoring

Every put piece scores (number of the flowers that have been fixed by the neighbouring pieces) times (number of the neighbouring pieces) points.  However, the first piece of each round scores 1 point.

For example, if you place a piece next to just one neighbour you get 2 * 1 = 2 points.  The best possible score of one piece is 4 * 8 = 32 points.

At the end of a round, the player who still have pieces left scores -1 points for every piece.  If a round ends because both have passed, there is no minus scoring.

You can't have less than zero points.

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How to Play

How the Game Ends


How the Game Ends

The game ends when, at the end of a round, one or both players have 100 or more points.

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Scoring


Changing the Speed

You can change the speed the computer plays by selecting "Options|Speed" from the menu.


Changing the Rules

You can change the rules by selecting "Options|Change rules" from the menu.


Easy/Normal/Hard Mode

You can choose the difficulty level of the game by selecting "Options|Mode" from the menu.

By default, the mode is set to easy.


Freeware

Copyright (c) 1993 Jussi Rosti

Program Flowers may be copied and distributed freely for non-commercial use as long as all the files are included and no part of any file is changed.

There is no registration or fee, but if you find Flowers amusing and want to support a poor student of computer science, a small amount of 5$ or equivalent in any currency would be willingly accepted.

Please send your support to:

Jussi Rosti

Ida Aalbergintie 4 E 61

00400 Helsinki 40

FINLAND

EUROPE

Please E-mail bug reports to:   Jussi.Rosti@Helsinki.FI

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No Warranty


No Warranty

You are running this program at your own risk.

Flowers is provided "as is" without warranty of

any kind, either express or implied, including,

but not limited to, the implied warranties of

merchantability and fitness for a particular

purpose.  Should Flowers prove defective, you

assume the cost of all necessary repair or

correction.

In no event will the author be liable to you

for damages, including any lost profits, lost

monies, any damage to your mental or physical

health, or other special, incidental or

consequential damages arising out of the use,

or inability to use the program.