FreeDoko: introduction
Author: Diether Knof, Borg Enders
Date: 2003-08-07

# Introduction to FreDoko

## Configuration

Menu item `settings` → `settings`

- If the language is not english, click on the button in the second row and select english.
- insert your name in the `name` field
- adjust the max future limit to your computer:
  - 250Mhz: ca. 2500
  - 500Mhz: ca. 5000
  - 1Ghz: ca. 7500
  - 2Ghz: ca. 10000
- customize FreeDoko, p.e. in the category `behaviour`:
  - whether to show a summary of each trick in a separate window (`show full trick window`)
  - whether you want the full trick to remain until you press a mouse button (`close full trick with click`)

## Play

Settings of the party
  - you can adjust the rules of the game in the category `rules`
  - press `start party` to start playing
Reservation
  - select one of the reservations or in the category `solo` a solo game
  - press `announce` to start the game
The gamefield
  - normal game/solo game:
    - click on the card you want to play
    - you can make announcements in the menu `announcements`
  - poverty
    - if you have a trump poverty, you see three hooded cards and an arrow
    - if you want to accept the poverty, click on the cards, else click on the arrow
    - If you have accepted the poverty you can change the cards with a single click. A click on one of the three cards in the middle, adds it to your hand, a click on a card in your hand adds it to the cards in the middle. When you have finished, click on the arrow to shift the cards to the poverty player.
overview of the points
  The menu item `party points` shows a summary of the games you have played so far.

Have fun playing FreeDoko.