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  <sect1 id="intro">
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>
       <application>GNOME Tali</application> is a sort of poker with
       dice and less money.  You roll five dice three times and try to
       create the best <quote>hand</quote>. Your two rerolls may include
       any or all of your dice.
    </para>
    <para>
      <application>GNOME Tali</application> is very similar to the
      dice game Yahtzee which is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
    </para>

    <para>
      To run <application>GNOME Tali</application>, select
      <menuchoice>
	<guisubmenu>Games</guisubmenu>
	<guimenuitem>GNOME Tali</guimenuitem>
      </menuchoice>
      from the <guimenu>Main Menu</guimenu>, or type
      <command>gtali</command> on the command line.
    </para>

    <para>
      <application>GNOME Tali</application> is included in the
      <filename>gnome-games</filename> package, which is part of the
      GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version
      &version; of <application>GNOME Tali</application>.
    </para>
  </sect1>

  <sect1 id="playing">
    <title>Playing GNOME Tali</title>

    <figure id="shot1">
      <title>GNOME Tali in action</title>
      <screenshot>
	 <mediaobject> 
    <imageobject>
  <imagedata fileref="figures/mainwindow.png" format="PNG"
	srccredit="Trevor Curtis"/>
	</imageobject>
    <textobject> 
      <phrase>GNOME Tali main window screenshot.</phrase> 
    </textobject> 
  </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
    </figure>

    <para>
      When play starts, you see the results of your first throw of the
      dice.      
    </para>

      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the dice you wish to roll again and they will
            turn into pumpkins. Thanks Tigert :)
	  </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>When you have selected all the dice you wish to reroll,
            press the <guibutton>Roll!</guibutton> button.
	  </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
	  <para>When you have a hand you like or have run out of chances
          to throw the dice, click on a row corresponding to what you think
          is your best scoring combination.  It is very possible to have
          a score of zero and if you click on the wrong row, you
          will be scored accordingly. (Say for example, you get
          yahtzee -- 5 of a kind -- and click on the large straight row,
          you will receive a zero in your large straight score).</para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>

    <para>You can only use each combination once, i.e. once you've entered
      something in a slot, you can't change the score later if you roll a
      better hand.
    </para>

    <para>There is one exception to this rule, if you roll a yahtzee a
     second time you can put it in the yahtzee row again for an extra
     fifty points. You can keep doing this each time you get another
     yahtzee. At the end of the game you will be given extra rolls to
     fill in the other rows. Be warned that if you score zero in your
     yahtzee row (i.e. you filled that row with something that wasn't
     a yahtzee) then you can't put a yahtzee in afterward, zero is all
     you will score.
    </para>

    <para>There is also a bonus of 35 points if you score a total of
    63 points or more in the top six rows.
    </para>

    <sect2 id="keyboard">
    <title>Using the keyboard</title> 

      <para>As an alternative to using the mouse, the keys 1 through 5
    toggle the dice just as if you had clicked them. The key 1
    corresponds to the first die and so on. Use the usual controls to
    roll the dice and select a row. i.e. use tab to switch between the
    roll button and the score area, use the arrow keys to navigate up
    and down the rows and use space to select.</para>
    
    </sect2>

  </sect1>

  <sect1 id="options">
    <title>Game Options</title>

    <figure id="shot2">
      <title>GNOME Tali preferences</title>
      <screenshot>
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    <textobject> 
      <phrase>GNOME Tali preferences dialog box.</phrase> 
    </textobject> 
  </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
    </figure>
      <variablelist><title>Human Players</title>
	<varlistentry>
	  <term><guimenuitem>Number of players</guimenuitem></term>
	  <listitem>
            <para>Selects the number of human players.  As described
	      above you are only allowed six total
	      players.
            </para>
          </listitem>
	</varlistentry>
      </variablelist>  
      
    <variablelist><title>Computer Opponents</title>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><guimenuitem>Delay between rolls</guimenuitem></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>Make the computer opponents pause between rolls
	    of the dice so you can see what they are doing.  Slows down
	    game play some.
          </para>
        </listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	<varlistentry>
	  <term><guimenuitem>Number of opponents</guimenuitem></term>
	  <listitem>
            <para>Select the number of computer opponents.  You are allowed a
	      total of six human and computer players.  If you attempt to
	      increase this number near the limit, the number of human players
	      will be decreased to maintain only six total
	      players.
            </para>
          </listitem>
	</varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
      
      <variablelist><title><guimenuitem>Player Names</guimenuitem></title>
	<varlistentry>
	    <para>To change the names of the players just enter new
	    names in the boxes.
	    </para>
	</varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="strategy">
      <title>Game Strategy</title>
      <para>The 63 points needed for the bonus in the upper half
      corresponds to getting three of each die type in each row. If
      you score more than three dice in the fives and sixes rows then
      you can afford to place a bad roll in either the ones row or the
      twos row and still get the bonus.
      </para>
      <para>Don't forget about multiple yahtzees, if you roll a second
       yahtzee you can also put it in the yahtzee row for even more points.
      </para>
    </sect1>	
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 <sect1 id="authors">
  <title>Authors</title>
  <para>
   <application>GNOME Tali</application> was written by Scott Heavner
   (<email>sdh@po.cwru.edu</email>) and Orest Zborowski. Please send 
   all comments, suggestions, and bug
   reports to the <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org" type="http">GNOME
   bug tracking database</ulink>.  (Instructions for submitting bug
   reports can be found <ulink
   url="http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html" type="http">
   on-line</ulink>.)  You can also use <application>Bug Report
   Tool</application> (<command>bug-buddy</command>), available in the
   <guisubmenu>Utilities</guisubmenu> submenu of <guimenu>Main
   Menu</guimenu>, for submitting bug reports.
  </para>

  <para>
   This manual was written by Scott D Heavner
   (<email>sdh@po.cwru.edu</email>) with extra material added by
   Callum McKenzie (<email>callum@physics.otago.ac.nz</email>). Please
   send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the
   <ulink type="http"
   url="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp">GNOME Documentation
   Project</ulink> by sending an email to
   <email>docs@gnome.org</email>. You can also add your comments
   online by using the <ulink type="http"
   url="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/doctable/">GNOME
   Documentation Status Table</ulink>.
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  <title>License</title>
  <para>
   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the  <ulink type="help" url="gnome-help:gpl">
    <citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle></ulink> as
   published by the Free Software Foundation; 
   either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
   version.
  </para>
  <para>
   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   <citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> for more details.
  </para>
  <para>
   A copy of the <citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> is
   included as an appendix to the <citetitle>GNOME Users
   Guide</citetitle>.  You may also obtain a copy of the
   <citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> from the Free
   Software Foundation by visiting <ulink type="http"
   url="http://www.fsf.org">their Web site</ulink> or by writing to
   <address>
    Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    <street>59 Temple Place</street> - Suite 330
    <city>Boston</city>, <state>MA</state> <postcode>02111-1307</postcode>
    <country>USA</country>
   </address>
  </para>
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