ace-of-penguins(6)

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version 1.5~rc2 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 ace-of-penguins — the penguin solitaire pack 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for ace-of_penguins — which is literally a whole set of solitaire games with penguin-look 🐧✨ Yes, that's the actual tagline: Solitaire-games with penguin-look. Iconic.

This page is ace-of-penguins(6), so it lives in section 6 of the manual (the games section, naturally 💅).

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

Twelve binaries, zero chill:

ace-canfield
ace-freecell
ace-golf
ace-mastermind
ace-merlin
ace-minesweeper
ace-pegged
ace-solitaire
ace-spider
ace-taipei
ace-taipedit
ace-thornq

Pick your fighter, run it, vibe. 🎀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • None. — nope, nothing, nada. There are no command-line options. The games just want you to play them. 🫶

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

From the author's intro.html, and I'm quoting this exactly because it's genuinely adorable:

"The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the ones available for Windows(tm) but with a number of enhancements that make my wife like my versions better :-)"

not the wife-approved enhancement arc 😭💖 we love a man who codes for his spouse.

Anyway, here's the full roster, one by one:

  • ace-canfield — Solitary card-game. 🃏
  • ace-freecell — Solitary card-game. 🃏
  • ace-spider — Solitary card-game. 🃏
  • ace-solitaire — Solitary card-game. 🃏
  • ace-thornq — Solitary card-game. 🃏
  • ace-golf — Another solitary card-game. ⛳ (yes, another one, we are spoiled)
  • ace-mastermind — Guess a secret combination of colors. 🎨 (your brain vs. the computer, no cap)
  • ace-merlin — Classical puzzle, rather frustrating. 😤 straight from the manpage, it's frustrating, don't say I didn't warn you
  • ace-minesweeper — Find all hidden mines in a minefield. 💣 (the classic "I'll just do one more" trap)
  • ace-pegged — Classical board game. 🎲
  • ace-taipei — Asian puzzle, remove pairs of equal stones. 🀄
  • ace-taipedit — Editor for your own ace-taipei levels. 🛠️ build your own puzzles, main character energy

🎀 KEYS 🎀

the way that every single game shares the same function library, so they all share the same keys 👯‍♀️ consistency, we stan:

  • F1 — Online help. 🆘
  • Esc Esc or Q — leave the game. (double Esc, not a single one, bestie — remember that) 🚪

💜 NOTES 💜

  • The upstream author, DJ Delorie, wrote a genuinely informative webpage, and it's installed on your system at /usr/share/doc/ace-of-penguins/intro.html — go read it, it's giving lore. 📖
  • The original binaries were renamed to include the prefix ace-* so they wouldn't clash with other names. no name collisions here, periodt. ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

If you encounter any bugs in this package, please report them to the Debian Bug Tracking System at http://bugs.debian.org/. be a good citizen, tell them, don't just suffer in silence 🥺

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

  • None. — doesn't read any environment variables. simple. clean. minimal. 💅

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • None. — no config files either. it's giving low-maintenance.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • Other games in /usr/games — go explore, there's a whole arcade down there 👀

🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

Programs are by DJ Delorie, some by Martin Thornquist. 🫶 legends, honestly.

This manual page was written 1999-09-09 by Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org> for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Updated 2007-09-03 by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. 📜

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was ace-of-penguins, version/date 2025-09-19, section 6, and no cap — go play some solitaire 🐧🃏 mwah 💋

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