Debian Games card packages

The Ace of Penguins is a set of solitaire games inspired by the ones available for MS Windows, but with a number of enhancements.

The package consists of the games Canfield, Freecell, Golf, Mastermind, Merlin, Minesweeper, Pegged, Solitaire, Spider, Taipei (with a level editor), and Thornq.

NOTE: If you experience problems with the F1 help key, please make sure you have package xfonts-100dpi installed.

This is a collection of over eighty different solitaire card games, including popular variants such as spider, freecell, klondike, thirteen (pyramid), yukon, canfield and many more.

This program generates bridge hands. It can be told to generate only hands satisfying conditions like being balanced, having a range of HCPs, controls, or other user-definable properties. Hands can be output in various formats, like pbn for feeding to other bridge programs, deal itself, or split up into a file per player for practise. Extensible via Tcl.

This program generates bridge hands for partnerships bidding training or for generating statistics that can be used to design conventions, or win postmortems. Dealer has been used in many bridge publications.

Bridge is an intellectually challenging card game for four players. The "deal" package provides a similar generator programmable in Tcl.

Salliere is a scoring program for duplicate bridge. It will take a file of pair numbers and contracts then score and match point them for duplicate bridge. It will then produce nicely tabulated overall results and board-by-board results.

This package contains the GUI frontend for salliere.

The Linux Memory Game is an X11 game for children ages 3 and up, based on the card game "Memory". It is written using GTK+ library. Although it is a children's game, it has five skill levels, the higher ones are challenging to adults as well. It features the ability to add your own 64x64 pixmap images.

OpenPref is open source implementation of European trick-taking game Preferans against two virtual players. Two alternative AI algorithms are available.

Generates random bridge hands or hands matching a certain specification with a given probability. Produces hand records and dealing sheets to allow duplication of the hands without a duplimate machine.

Provides conversion or import from dds-format and pbn files.

pokerth is a free implementation of the Texas hold'em poker game which is mostly played in casinos and has a growing popularity worldwide. Texas hold'em is easy to learn but needs a good strategy to win and a lot of luck. This package helps you when practicing or just playing for fun.

There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck.

Its features include modern look and feel (uses Ttk widget set), multiple cardsets and tableau backgrounds, sound, unlimited undo, player statistics, a hint system, demo games, a solitaire wizard, support for user written plug-ins, an integrated HTML help browser, and lots of documentation.

PySolFC is a fork of PySol Solitaire.

Tenace is a Bridge hand viewer and editor. Hand records are read using BBO's .lin format. The board editor allows one to easily move cards around to simulate different distributions. The double dummy solver computes optimal lines of play and par scores.

Bridge is an intellectually challenging card game for four players.

A card game against the computer in which each player tries to reach 1000 miles. Each player tries to avoid accidents, flat tires, running out of gas, and break downs while trying to cause these same maladies in the opponent.

xpat2 is a generic patience game which can be used with different rule sets. It does understand the rules of the well-known Spider game, as well as Klondike and others.

This program may have difficulties to start if you have an 8-bit or monochrome display.

Xskat lets you play the card game Skat as defined by the official German "Skatordnung".

You can play by sending a window to the other player's X display, or via an IRC server. The computer can also simulate players.

Many unofficial rules like "Ramsch" or "Bock" are supported.

This is a simple Motif/Lesstif version of the classic solitaire game: Klondike Solitaire.

This version of the game runs under X Window System.

These are the games from the official GNOME release. They have the look and feel of the GNOME desktop, but can be used without it.

Games are now split in separate packages; this metapackage brings all of them but they can be installed separately.

KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.

This metapackage includes a collection of games provided with the official release of KDE.