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3]CRIBMASTER: A Computerized Cribbage Player
3]By Michael Sinz
3]Copyright (c) 1988 by MKSoft Development
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3]RELEASED AS A PREMIERE PROGRAM ON JUMPDISK

     CribMaster is a Cribbage player that is rather simple to run. It only
plays HUMAN -v- COMPUTER with full muggins and bar rules.
     If you don't know the rules of Cribbage you will need to find a
reference for that. This article is only to tell you how to run the program.
     Start CribMaster by either double-clicking on the icon or by running it
from the CLI. CribMaster will then open six windows and a requester talking
about CribMaster.
     After you click CONTINUE in the requester you will see the windows.
They are:

3]MAIN WINDOW: Title display "CribMaster - Copyright..."
     This window is where you will be doing all of your input and where your
hand will be displayed. We will get back to this one.

3]PLAY WINDOW: Title display "The Play"
     This window is where the "Play" of the hand happens. Your cards will
pile on the left and the computer's cards will pile on the right.

3]UPCARD WINDOW: No title, too small for that.
     This window will display the upcard when it is available.

3]COMPUTER'S WINDOW: Title display "My Hand"
     This window will display the computer's cards. During play they will be
face down but when he counts, they will be face up.

3]GAMES WON WINDOW
     This is the pegging board where the games won is stored.

3]BOARD WINDOW
     This is a full-sized cribbage board. You are in the "top" track at the
starting line.

3]IN PLAY
     The game, at the start, will ask you to "Click GO to cut for deal." The
time at which you click on the GO gadget will initialize the random number
generator and will cut the deck for deal. The cards are then dealt out and
you are then to pick the two cards you wish to throw into the CRIB. Clicking
on a card throws that card. You cannot get back the card once it is thrown,
so be sure of what you wish to do. If you need help, the HELP key or the "?"
gadget will display the nine best hands to keep. It may not display them in
any real order as it is very simple help. The crib you are throwing into is
displayed under your cards.
     After throwing the cards into the crib, the "play" of the hand starts.
Follow the messages to do this. Points you get during the play are
automatically given to you. You do not need to keep track of them. The "GO"
gadget is needed to continue the play at various points including when you
can not throw a card.
     After the play of the hand, the hands are counted. The player without
the crib counts first. When you count, you just need to click on the number
of points that are in you hand. If you click on "10" and you hand has 12
points, the computer will call muggins and claim the two points you missed.
When the computer counts, it will tell you how much it had in its hand and
you will then need to press "GO" to continue.
     Note, that at any stage in the game, you can press the HELP key or the
"?" gadget to get some form of help on what to do next. At the end when you
are counting, the help will count your cards and show you the count. If you
have a very large hand, it may not show all of the count but will show your
score and all you would have to do is to use that value. This can help you
learn your game. Note that full counting rules are used.
     Hope you enjoy this implementation. I feel that it plays a good game
and will challenge even die-hard cribbage players.

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