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# The KPuzzle Documentation - Playing the Game

#### Getting started

When you have started KPuzzle, you may begin a new game by clicking the leftmost symbol in the toolbar or by choosing File/New Game.

Now, you can select a picture to play with. The dialog box only shows *.bmp files, as this is the KPuzzle standard picture format, but you may use every graphics file format which QT supports. When you have chosen a picture, you have to set some general game parameters.

The New Game Dialog allows to set various parameters, of which the most important is the game type. There are the following types available:

- Standard: There is nothing special about it, just solve the game before your time runs out.
- Piece-Time: You have a certain time to position every piece. When the time runs out for this piece, you will not be able to finish the game.
- Faults-Count: You have only got a certain number of trials to position your piece. When the counter of tolerated faults for one piece has reached zero... (look above)
- Global-Faults: There is a global counter of the faults you have made.
- Unbearable: You have got a certain time to put any piece at its position, but the piece shown changes automatically! You have got various rounds, however.

Please see The New Game Dialog Description for infirmation about the other parameters.

#### Playing

Now, you see the main screen of KPuzzle. Here, you can finally start playing. By left-clicking into the puzzling area on the upper left side, you may try to set a piece at the current position. Please read the Main Screen description for a detailed explanation of all possibilities.

When you try to set a piece at a wrong position it depends on the game type what happens:

- Piece-Faults-Game: If the maximum number of faults for this piece is exceeded, it will disappear, and the next one will appear. Note that you cannot win the game any more when this has happened.
- All-Faults-Game: If the maximum number of faults is exceeded, you lose immediately.

In all other cases, nothing special happens. You may, though, still get a penalty (your score decreases). Read about this in the Scoring Section. In the two cases above, as well as always when you set a piece at the right place, it will disappear, and the next piece is shown.

#### The End of the Game

The game ends when you cannot any more set a piece. This may happen when all pieces are set correctly or when the maximum count of faults or the maximum time is exceeded for all remaining pieces. The game will terminate, too, when the global number of faults or the global maximum time are exceeded.

If you have won the game, you will receive some further bonus points, which depend on the time you needed to solve the puzzle, and its difficulty.

The entire pixmap (the one you have just put together) is shown, and you may view the highscore list and enter your name if you have got a sufficient score.

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