== NAME ==
bluemoon - the Blue Moon solitaire

== SYNOPSIS ==
*bluemoon*

== DESCRIPTION ==

This 52-card solitaire starts with the entire deck shuffled and
dealt out in four rows.  The aces are then moved to the left end of
the layout, making 4 initial free spaces.  You may move to a space
only the card that matches the left neighbor in suit, and is one
greater in rank.  Kings are high, so no cards may be placed to their
right (they create dead spaces).

When no moves can be made, cards still out of sequence are
reshuffled and dealt face up after the ends of the partial sequences,
leaving a card space after each sequence, so that each row looks like
a partial sequence followed by a space, followed by enough cards to
make a row of 14.  

A moment's reflection will show that this game cannot take more
than 13 deals. A good score is 1-3 deals, 4-7 is average, 8 or more is
poor.  


== AUTHORS ==

Originally written by Tim Lister.  Visual user interface and color
support by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. The ncurses
version was written in November 1994.  See http://www.catb.org/~esr/
for updates, also other software and resources by ESR.
