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S H O O T T H E M O O N
Program by William Shockley
Text by Fender Tucker
My mother, who was an excellent
Bridge player, hated the game of
Hearts, while I, a pitiful Bridge
player, like Hearts. Could there be a
pattern here?
Hearts is a card game that
resembles Bridge but doesn't require
all of those bidding rules. Also, when
you make a mistake in playing Hearts,
you have no partner to yell at you,
kick you under the table, and give you
no peace when you get home.
In other words, Hearts is a
friendly cutthroat card game. The
basic rules are given in the boot
program so I won't go into details
here. One of the more spectacular
plays of Hearts is to "Shoot the Moon"
and Bill Shockley, a spectacular sort
of guy, gave his simulation that name
because he expects you to try to shoot
it every hand. It's not easy to take
every heart PLUS the queen of spades.
Your three opponents will try to
thwart you at every opportunity. They
are a motley assortment of Hearts
players who sometimes play like pros
and sometimes like fish.
You can use either a joystick in
Port 2 or the keyboard. You will only
need the CRSR UP, CRSR DOWN and the
RETURN keys.
The standard rules of Hearts
apply, except that in SHOOT THE MOON
you can toss a heart (or the Queen) on
the first trick. Some people believe
in a first-trick amnesty, but not
SHOOT THE MOON.
The game ends when one of the
players reaches 100 points and whoever
has the low score is the winner. In
this game anything but first place is
a moral failure, so don't let a little
machine beat you.
There's also an option for using
the jack of diamonds as a positive
card. If you take it in a trick, you
get to subtract 10 from your score,
unless it would cause your score to go
below zero.
I have included a special visual
treat for anyone who shoots the moon.
Blame it totally on me, your impish
editor. Some days I just feel like the
contrarian I am.
I've always wanted a Hearts
simulation and I appreciate Bill
Shockley's putting this together. We
hope you do, too.
FT
DAVE'S NOTE: Ah, Hearts. This was the
reason one got up and went to the
Union during college. The Hearts game
started with the first skipped class
and ended with the last. Not all
players would skip; they would just
pass their hand to another for an hour
or so.
Question: If you had a hand with
EVERY Heart except the 2, 4, and 7
plus the Ace and King of Spades, would
[you] drop it all just go to class?
What if this was the day of the
mid-term-half-your-score test?
That's what I thought.
DMM