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Introduction

"Why yet another solitaire game?" you may ask. The answer is simple...

Pysol III highlights

• based upon an extensible solitaire engine
• currently supports more than 1900 distinct solitaire games
• lots of classic games like Forty Thieves, FreeCell, Klondike and Spider
• includes games that use the following types of card and game tiles:
  • French: the standard 52 card "poker" deck, some with two jokers
  • Hanafuda: a Japanese deck with 12 suits of 4 cards each
  • Mekuri Karuta: another Japanese deck, 4 suits of 12 cards
  • Unsun Karuta: still another Japanese deck, 5 suits of 15 cards
  • Uta Karuta: and another Japanese deck, 5 suits of 20 cards
  • Tarock (AKA Tarot): a deck from eastern Europe with 78 cards
  • Skat: another eastern European deck, 4 suits of 8 cards
  • Mahjongg: the tiles used to play Mahjongg and Mahjongg solitaire
  • Mughal Ganjifa: a deck from India with 8 suits of 12 cards
  • Navagraha Ganjifa: another Indian deck with 9 suits of 12 cards
  • Dashavatara Ganjifa: an Indian deck with 10 or 12 suits of 12 cards
  • Hex A Deck: a custom deck with 4 suits of 16 cards plus 4 Wizards
  • Dominoes: games using double six or double nine dominoes
  • Cartomancy: fortune telling games designed to use the 78 tarot cards
  • Special tiles for puzzle games like matrix, pegged and Towers of Hanoi
  • Games that use Chinese Money Suit cards with three, four or five suits
  • Games using the Vietnamese Tam Cuc and To Tom decks
• multiple card faces and background table tiles
• some card sets and game tiles have two faces (F4 key)
• unlimited undo and redo
• persistent bookmarks
• load and save games
• player statistics
• a hint system
• demo games
• support for user written plug-ins
• sound samples and background music
• integrated HTML help browser will run as a separate application
• written in 100% pure Python
• portable across Unix/X11, Windows and Mac OSX with python
• distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Contents
Key Bindings
Menu Bar Tree
Glossary
Index

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