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The Game

Spider is a game of patience which uses two regular decks of playing cards. The tableau consists of ten columns of cards, initially with 44 cards face down with a row of 10 cards face up on top. Spider Game Screen

The object of the game is to manipulate the cards to assemble complete suits with the king at the base of the pile and the ace at the top. When a complete suit is assembled it can be removed from play. The game is won if all eight suits are removed.

Cards are moved from the top of columns, either individually, or in groups. The cards are then placed on other columns in decending order, regardless of suit.

The top card of any column is available to move, while groups of cards can only be moved if they are a descending run of the same suit.

Features

Spider is fully configurable with all of the following items changable within the program:

Screen Mode and Size
Screen Font
Card Set
Card Back

Card Sets may be edit using any paint program and converted using the make_cards program which is available seperately. The format for editing Card Sets, which is described with the make_cards program allows you to change the size, image and even the shape of the cards. You can also define up to twelve different card backs for the set.

Spider allows games to be saved and when reloaded you can:

Play the game again from the start.
Continue the game from where you left off.
Watch a replay of the game as played previously.

There are many other features, too numerous to mention here. You'll just have to download it and try it out for yourself.

Where to Get It

**These Spider archives are available from Aminet.**
Archive
JP_Spider_1.2.lha	The Spider archive contains the main game, some demo games, two card sets and some prefs files.
JP_Spider_makecards.lha	The card set creator archive contains a program for creating Spider card sets from ilbm files.

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