XSOL(6)

XSOL(6) — the games manual page 💖

okay bestie, this is the manual page for xsol, and it lives in section 6 of the games manual. yes, that kind of manual. sit down, grab a snack, we're learning solitaire 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

xsol — X Solitaire 🃏

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xsol

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just launch it and go 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This manual page briefly documents xsol, which is a simple Motif/Lesstif version of the classic solitaire game. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so basically someone on the Debian team said "not on my watch" and wrote one for us 🫶 iconic behaviour honestly.

🎀 HOW TO PLAY 🎀

Solitaire is a card game, and here's the setup, so listen up:

At the start you are presented with seven columns of cards. The first one has only one card, the second one has two, the third has three, and so on — that's 28 in total — but only the first card in every column is shown (that's what we call 'opened'). Also there's the deck (24 cards at the start), and four empty places for suit stacks. ✨

Cards in the deck and in the columns are unsorted, and the object of Solitaire is to use all the cards in the deck to build up the four suit stacks in ascending order, beginning with the aces. 👑

You can accomplish that by dragging and dropping the red onto the black (and black onto the red) cards between the columns, and between the deck and the columns — but not the other way around. When you see a whole turned card, click on it to see it ('open' it) and to be able to move it somewhere. The deck is opened by clicking on it; once you reach the end of the deck, just click once more and you'll reopen it. 🔁

If you reach a point when you can't move any more cards to the stacks, and rearranging cards in columns and the deck gets you nowhere, the game is over. Start it again. 😭 (yes, fr fr, that's the actual rule — no shame, we've all been there)

💅 OPTIONS 💅

You can access all options within the program, through the 'Game' menu. There you have four options:

• New game — start a new game 🌸
• Undo — undo last move ↩️
• Options — configure these options:
  • Timed game — should we count the seconds? ⏱️
  • Keep score — should we count the score? ⭐
  • Show number of cards in deck — should we show it? 👀
  • Draw one — card from the deck
  • Draw three — cards from the deck
• About — shows information about the author 🫶
• Exit — quits the game 🚪

👑 AUTHOR 👑

xsol was written by Brian Masney <masneyb@newwave.net>, and this manual page was written by Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this lil cutie came to you from the Debian Project, dated March 1999 — vintage but still slaying. go win some solitaire for me, mwah 💖💅✨