This is a collection of small one-player puzzle games.
-\copyright This manual is copyright 2004 Simon Tatham. All rights
+\copyright This manual is copyright 2004-5 Simon Tatham. All rights
reserved. You may distribute this documentation under the MIT licence.
See \k{licence} for the licence text in full.
\dd Resets the current game to its initial state. (This can be undone.)
+\dt \ii\e{Load}
+
+\dd Loads a saved game from a file on disk.
+
+\dt \ii\e{Save}
+
+\dd Saves the current state of your game to a file on disk.
+
+\lcont{
+
+The Load and Save operations should preserve your entire game
+history (so you can save, reload, and still Undo and Redo things you
+had done before saving).
+
+}
+
\dt \ii\e{Undo} (\q{U}, Ctrl+\q{Z}, Ctrl+\q{_})
\dd Undoes a single move. (You can undo moves back to the start of the
\dt \e{Rotate tile clockwise}: right mouse button, \q{D} key
+\dt \e{Rotate tile by 180 degrees}: \q{F} key
+
\dt \e{Lock (or unlock) tile}: middle mouse button, shift-click, \q{S} key
\dd You can lock a tile once you're sure of its orientation. You can
Each square contains a small diagram showing which other squares
change when you flip it.
-\C{flip-controls} \i{Flip controls}
+\H{flip-controls} \i{Flip controls}
\IM{Flip controls} controls, for Flip
\IM{Flip controls} keys, for Flip
\IM{Flip controls} shortcuts (keyboard), for Flip
-Left-click in a square to flip it and its associated squares. That's
-all!
+This game can be played with either the keyboard or the mouse.
+
+Left-click in a square to flip it and its associated squares, or
+use the cursor keys to choose a square and the space bar or Enter
+key to flip.
+
+If you use the \q{Solve} function on this game, it will mark some of
+the squares in red. If you click once in every square with a red
+mark, the game should be solved. (If you click in a square
+\e{without} a red mark, a red mark will appear in it to indicate
+that you will need to reverse that operation to reach the solution.)
\H{flip-parameters} \I{parameters, for flip}Flip parameters
the game is different every time.
+\C{guess} \i{Guess}
+
+\cfg{winhelp-topic}{games.guess}
+
+You have a set of coloured pegs, and have to reproduce a
+predetermined sequence of them (chosen by the computer) within a
+certain number of guesses.
+
+Each guess gets marked with the number of correctly-coloured pegs
+in the correct places (in black), and also the number of
+correctly-coloured pegs in the wrong places (in white).
+
+This game is also known (and marketed, by Hasbro, mainly) as
+a board game \q{Mastermind}, with 6 colours, 4 pegs per row, and 10 guesses.
+However, this version allows custom settings of number of colours
+(up to 10), number of pegs per row, and number of guesses.
+
+Guess was contributed to this collection by James Harvey.
+
+\H{guess-controls} \i{Guess controls}
+
+\IM{Guess controls} controls, for Guess
+\IM{Guess controls} keys, for Guess
+\IM{Guess controls} shortcuts (keyboard), for Guess
+
+This game can be played with either the keyboard or the mouse.
+
+With the mouse, drag a coloured peg from the tray on the left-hand
+side to its required position in the current guess; pegs may also be
+dragged from current and past guesses to copy them elsewhere. To
+remove a peg, drag it off its current position to somewhere invalid.
+
+Right-clicking in the current guess adds a \q{hold} marker; pegs
+that have hold markers will be automatically added to the next guess
+after marking.
+
+Alternatively, with the keyboard, the up and down cursor keys can be
+used to select a peg colour, the left and right keys to select a
+peg position, and the space bar or Enter key to place a peg of the
+selected colour in the chosen position. \q{D} or Backspace removes a
+peg, and \q{H} adds a hold marker.
+
+When the guess is complete, the smaller feedback pegs will be highlighted;
+clicking on these (or moving the peg cursor to them with the arrow keys
+and pressing the space bar or Enter key) will mark the current guess,
+copy any held pegs to the next guess, and move the \q{current guess}
+marker.
+
+If you correctly position all the pegs the solution will be displayed
+below; if you run out of guesses (or select \q{Solve...}) the solution
+will also be revealed.
+
+\H{guess-parameters} \I{parameters, for Guess}Guess parameters
+
+These parameters are available from the \q{Custom...} option on the
+\q{Type} menu. The default game matches the parameters for the
+board game \q{Mastermind}.
+
+\dt \e{Colours}
+
+\dd Number of colours the solution is chosen from; from 2 to 10
+(more is harder).
+
+\dt \e{Pegs per guess}
+
+\dd Number of pegs per guess (more is harder).
+
+\dt \e{Guesses}
+
+\dd Number of guesses you have to find the solution in (fewer is harder).
+
+\dt \e{Allow blanks}
+
+\dd Allows blank pegs to be given as part of a guess (makes it easier, because
+you know that those will never be counted as part of the solution). This
+is turned off by default.
+
+Note that this doesn't allow blank pegs in the solution; if you really wanted
+that, use one extra colour.
+
+\dt \e{Allow duplicates}
+
+\dd Allows the solution (and the guesses) to contain colours more than once;
+this increases the search space (making things harder), and is turned on by
+default.
+
+
+\C{pegs} \i{Pegs}
+
+\cfg{winhelp-topic}{games.pegs}
+
+A number of pegs are placed in holes on a board. You can remove a
+peg by jumping an adjacent peg over it (horizontally or vertically)
+to a vacant hole on the other side. Your aim is to remove all but one
+of the pegs initially present.
+
+This game, best known as \q{Peg Solitaire}, is possibly one of the
+oldest puzzle games still commonly known.
+
+\H{pegs-controls} \i{Pegs controls}
+
+\IM{Pegs controls} controls, for Pegs
+
+To move a peg, drag it with the mouse from its current position to
+its final position. If the final position is exactly two holes away
+from the initial position, is currently unoccupied by a peg, and
+there is a peg in the intervening square, the move will be permitted
+and the intervening peg will be removed.
+
+Vacant spaces which you can move a peg into are marked with holes. A
+space with no peg and no hole is not available for moving at all: it
+is an obstacle which you must work around.
+
+
+\H{pegs-parameters} \I{parameters, for Pegs}Pegs parameters
+
+These parameters are available from the \q{Custom...} option on the
+\q{Type} menu.
+
+\dt \e{Width}, \e{Height}
+
+\dd Size of grid in holes.
+
+\dt \e{Board type}
+
+\dd Controls whether you are given a board of a standard shape or a
+randomly generated shape. The two standard shapes currently
+supported are \q{Cross} and \q{Octagon} (also commonly known as the
+English and European traditional board layouts respectively).
+Selecting \q{Random} will give you a different board shape every
+time (but always one that is known to have a solution).
+
+
\A{licence} \I{MIT licence}\ii{Licence}
This software is \i{copyright} 2004-2005 Simon Tatham.
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