CRIBBAGE(6)CRIBBAGE(6)NAMEcribbage - the card game cribbageSYNOPSIS
/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 speci‐
fied 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 alterna‐
tively as: “spades”, “hearts”, “diamonds”, and “clubs”. A card may be
specified as: <rank> “ ” <suit>, or: <rank> “ of ” <suit>. If the sin‐
gle 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 dia‐
monds”, “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 31, 1993 CRIBBAGE(6)