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16/12/2000 1.03.00 This Handbook describes &kshisen; Version 1.3 KDE kdegames KShisen game shisen-sho &kshisen; is a single-player-game similar to Mahjongg and uses the same set of tiles as Mahjongg. The object of the game is to remove all tiles from the field. The aim of the game is to remove all tiles from the board. Only two matching tiles can be removed at a time. Two tiles can only be removed if they can be connected with a maximum of three connected lines. Lines can be horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal. You don't have to draw the lines by yourself, the game does this for you. Just mark two matching tiles on the board, if they can be connected with a maximum of three lines, the lines will be drawn and the tiles are removed. Remember that lines only may cross the empty border. If you are stuck, you can use the Hint feature to find two tiles which may be removed. Clicking a tile with the right mouse button will show you all corresponding tiles, no matter if they are removable at the moment or not. The game is over if no moves are possible and some tiles are left on the board (this should not happen if the option No unsolvable games in the Option menu is checked, since for these games there is at least one way to solve it, though it may happen that you choose the wrong way). The menu Game menu lets you control the status of the current game, as there are: CtrlZ Game Undo Undo the last step. Same as the back button in the Toolbar. CtrlD Game Redo Redo the last step. Same as the forward button in the toolbar. Ctrl H GameGet Hint Show a tip, which two tiles to remove next. Ctrl N GameNew Game Finish the actual game set and start a new session with new tiles. Ctrl R GameRestart Game Restart the current game with the same tiles. Game Pause Game Pauses the entire game, especially the timer which is needed for the high score. The menu-entry then turns to Resume Game, which is used for resuming the game. Game Is game solvable? Shows a Dialog which tells you whether the game is solvable or not. If the menu-entry Disallow unsolvable games in the Options menu is checked, this Box is absolutely useless. GameHall of Fame Shows the (local) Top-Ten-charts of Shisen-Sho. Some of the menu items can also be controlled by hot-keys. See the section for a list. &kshisen; has several possibilities to change its behavior. All options can be changed from the menu Options. The options will be saved automatically. Options Size In the sub-menu Size you can change the number of tiles on the board. The more tiles you have, the harder (and longer) the game will be. Options Speed The sub-menu Speed sets the time for the tiles to disappear when connected correctly. Options Level Choose your game skill in the sub-menu Level. Options Gravity Checking this item makes the game even harder: If a tile is removed, all tiles lying above it will fall down one step. Options Disallow unsolvable games If this menu-item is checked, only solvable games will be created when a new game is started. Note: You may still choose the wrong way and have to try again if you didn't solve the game, but if it's checked, the game will be solvable. Default key bindings are: Quit: CtrlQ Undo: CtrlZ Redo: CtrlD New Game: CtrlN Restart Game: CtrlR Help: F1 What's this?: ShiftF1 &kshisen; Copyright 1999 Mario Weilguni mweilguni@sime.com Documentation Copyright 2000 Dirk Doerflinger ddoerflinger@gmx.net &underFDL; &underGPL; &kshisen; is written for the KDE project http://www.kde.org by Mario Weilguni mweilguni@sime.com. &kshisen; can be found in the package kdegames on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project. In order to successfully compile &kshisen;, you need KDE 2.0 All required libraries as well as &kshisen; itself can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/. In order to compile and install &kshisen on your system, extract the package and type the following in the base directory of the &kshisen; distribution: % ./configure % make % make install Since Shisen-Sho uses autoconf and automake you should have not trouble compiling it.