DOUBLE DEALER ============= Two fantastic new computerised card games, BLACK-JACK and STUD POKER, break the bank or pit yourself against the computer. Guaranteed to improve your skill at both games. (Which could be useful!) Double Dealer is the fantastic new games tape from MFM Software. It features two superb card games, Black-Jack and Stud Poker, both for the 48k Spectrum. The two games have many exciting features, including excellent graphics, sound effects, and clever betting, bluffing etc. by the computer. You'll soon be asking yourself "Who's in there?" Your ability at each game can be measured by the Casino (Black-Jack) or Skill Level (Stud Poker) achieved. Try to break the bank or pit yourself against increasingly wily opponents. Guaranteed to improve your skill at both games... which could be useful! Instructions: Black-Jack The object of this game is for you to get a hand whose combined total value is higher than the computer's, the dealer - but the value of any hand must not exceed twenty-one. A hand whose cards total over 21 is called BUST and loses. The computer will deal you a card on which you bet. The amount you bet depends on your judgement of that card's worth. That is, what you think your chances are of getting as close to 21 as possible, without BUSTing! The computer will then deal you another card which leaves you with three options - STICK, TWIST or BUY. STICK means you have a hand you are satisfied with and you don't need any more cards. (You must have a total of at least 16 to stick.) TWIST means you bet nothing but receive another card. BUY means you want another card and wish to bet on it. If your first two cards are the same you will be asked if you want to SPLIT. This allows you to bet the original bet on both cards and play them as if they were the first cards of two separate hands. Every hand ends with either BUSTing: cards total over 21; or STICKing: cards total 16 or more and less than or equal to 21. It is then the computer's turn. It takes extra cards if required and sticks or busts. It will then pay out (or not as the case may be!). Special Hands: Three sevens or an Ace and a ten (Kings, Queens, Jacks and Tens all count as tens) are all called Black-Jack and the computer will pay out 4 times your bet for 3 sevens, or 3 times your bet for an ace and a ten. Five cards that total less than (or equal) 21 are called a 5-Card Trick and pay 2 times your bet. All other winning hands pay the amount bet. Remember when adding up your cards: Ace = 1 or 11; Jack, Queen and King all = 10; all other cards count their face value. There are three levels of skill, called Casino 1, 2 and 3. These higher levels of skill must be earned by breaking the bank. (£10000 at Casino 1.) At Casino 2 and 3 it takes more to break the banks and you might find the computer gets a little harder to beat !!!??? Black-Jack is played here with a full standard deck of 52 cards. Good Luck. Instructions: Stud Poker The object of this game is to obtain a hand of cards whose value is greater than the computer's hand. Play starts with one card being dealt face down to you and one to the computet. A second card is then dealt face up to each. The highest showing card then bets first. If you have the highest card you can secretly look at your down card with the LOOK command (Press 'L'). Enter your bet between the maximum and minimum for that Skill Level (see below). The computer will then bet. Betting continues until you or the computer equalise the betting - that is you and the computer have bet the same amount on that card. When the bets are equalised a third card is dealt to each. Once again the highest showing hand bets first. Betting again continues until equal amounts have been bet by both. A fourth and fifth card are then dealt with the same betting intervals between each. After betting is complete on the fifth card, the computer displays both down cards and announces the winner, who then receives the total amount bet on the two hands. (The POT.) At any of your turns to bet you have the option to give up on that hand, using the FOLD command (Press F). The POT then goes to the computer. If you and the computer both have exactly the same hand the last to bet (the caller) loses. There are four levels of skill in MFM's Stud Poker. To get to Level 2 for instance, you must beat your opponent at Level 1 by winning all his money. Your winnings from Level 1 are then carried forward to Level 2 and your new opponent gets a similar amount of money to play with. If you should run out of money at any skill level you (and the computer) will be allowed to borrow until the end of that hand. Each level has house limits, maximum and minimum allowable bets. These are: Skill Level 1 Min. £10 Max. £100 Skill Level 2 Min. £20 Max. £200 Skill Level 3 Min. £100 Max. £400 Skill Level 4 Min. £200 Max. £800 Order of value of hands Highest Straight Flush 5 consecutive cards of the same suit. 4 of a kind 4 cards of the same rank. Full House 3 cards of one rank, 2 of another rank. Flush 5 cards of the same suit. Straight 5 consecutive cards (Run). 3 of a kind 3 cards of the same rank. 2 pairs 2 cards of the same rank with 2 cards of another rank. Pair 2 cards of the same rank. Lowest High card The highest ranking card of the hand. MFM's Stud Poker is played with a 'French deck' (32 cards, 2 to 6s out). 2s wild option available. Good Luck. Made in U.K. © John V. Green 1984. MFM Data Services Ltd., 141a Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 2RA. All rights reserved. No part of these programs may be reproduced either in part or whole in any form whatsoever without the prior written permission of MFM Data Services Ltd. The programs are sold on the understanding that they may not be lent or hired or sold on a buy back basis unless under written authorisation of MFM Data Services Ltd.