monop/monop.6

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  34 .\"     @(#)monop.6     6.5 (Berkeley) 3/25/93
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  36 .Dd March 25, 1993
  37 .Dt MONOP 6
  38 .Os
  39 .Sh NAME
  40 .Nm monop
  41 .Nd Monopoly game
  42 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  43 .Nm /usr/games/monop
  44 .Op Ar file
  45 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  46 .Nm Monop
  47 is reminiscent of the Parker Brother's game Monopoly, and
  48 monitors a game between 1 to 9 users.
  49 It is assumed that the rules of Monopoly are known.
  50 The game follows the standard rules, with the exception that,
  51 if a property goes up for auction and there are only two solvent players,
  52 no auction is held and the property remains unowned.
  53 .Nm
  54 The game, in effect, lends the player money,
  55 so it is possible to buy something which you cannot afford.
  56 However, as soon as a person goes into debt,
  57 he must
  58 .Dq fix the problem ,
  59 .Em i.e. ,
  60 make himself solvent, before play can continue.
  61 If this is not possible, the player's property reverts to his debtee,
  62 either a player or the bank.
  63 A player can resign at any time to any person or the bank,
  64 which puts the property back on the board, unowned.
  65 .Pp
  66 Any time that the response to a question is a
  67 .Em string ,
  68 e.g., a name, place or person, you can type
  69 .Sq Ic ?
  70 to get a list of valid answers.
  71 It is not possible to input a negative number, nor is it ever necessary.
  72 .Pp
  73 .Em A Summary of Commands :
  74 .Bl -tag -width item
  75 .It Ic quit
  76 quit game: This allows you to quit the game.  It asks you if you're sure.
  77 .It Ic print
  78 print board: This prints out the current board.
  79 The columns have the following meanings (column headings are the same for the
  80 .Ic where ,
  81 .Ic own holdings  ,
  82 and
  83 .Ic holdings
  84 commands):
  85 .Pp
  86 .Bl -tag -width indent -compact
  87 .It Name
  88 The first ten characters of the name of the square
  89 .It Own
  90 The
  91 .Em number
  92 of the owner of the property.
  93 .It Price
  94 The cost of the property (if any)
  95 .It Mg
  96 This field has a
  97 .Sq *
  98 in it if the property is mortgaged
  99 .It \&#
 100 If the property is a Utility or Railroad, this is the number
 101 of such owned by the owner.
 102 If the property is land, this is the number of houses on it.
 103 .It Rent
 104 Current rent on the property.  If it is not owned, there is no rent.
 105 .El
 106 .It Ic where
 107 where players are: Tells you where all the players are.
 108 A `*' indicates the current player.
 109 .It Ic own holdings
 110 List your own holdings,
 111 .Em i.e. ,
 112 money, get-out-of-jail-free cards, and property.
 113 .It Ic holdings
 114 holdings list: Look at anyone's holdings.
 115 It will ask you whose holdings you wish to look at.
 116 When you are finished, type
 117 .Sq Ic done .
 118 .It Ic mortgage
 119 mortgage property:
 120 Sets up a list of mortgageable property, and asks which you wish to mortgage.
 121 .It Ic unmortgage
 122 unmortgage property:
 123 Unmortgage mortgaged property.
 124 .It Ic buy
 125 buy houses:
 126 Sets up a list of monopolies on which you can buy houses.
 127 If there is more than one, it asks you which you want to buy for.
 128 It then asks you how many for each piece of property,
 129 giving the current amount in parentheses after the property name.
 130 If you build in an unbalanced manner
 131 (a disparity of more than one house within the same monopoly),
 132 it asks you to re-input things.
 133 .It Ic sell
 134 sell houses:
 135 Sets up a list of monopolies from which you can sell houses.
 136 It operates in an analogous manner to
 137 .Ic buy.
 138 .It Ic card
 139 card for jail:
 140 Use a get-out-of-jail-free card to get out of jail.
 141 If you're not in jail, or you don't have one, it tells you so.
 142 .It Ic pay
 143 pay for jail:
 144 Pay $50 to get out of jail, from whence you are put on Just Visiting.
 145 Difficult to do if you're not there.
 146 .It Ic trade
 147 This allows you to trade with another player.
 148 It asks you whom you wish to trade with,
 149 and then asks you what each wishes to give up.
 150 You can get a summary at the end, and, in all cases,
 151 it asks for confirmation of the trade before doing it.
 152 .It Ic resign
 153 Resign to another player or the bank.
 154 If you resign to the bank, all property reverts to its virgin state,
 155 and get-out-of-jail free cards revert to the deck.
 156 .It Ic save
 157 save game:
 158 Save the current game in a file for later play.
 159 You can continue play after saving,
 160 either by adding the file in which you saved the game after the
 161 .Nm monop
 162 command, or by using the
 163 .Ic restore
 164 command (see below).
 165 It will ask you which file you wish to save it in,
 166 and, if the file exists, confirm that you wish to overwrite it.
 167 .It Ic restore
 168 restore game:
 169 Read in a previously saved game from a file.
 170 It leaves the file intact.
 171 .It Ic roll
 172 Roll the dice and move forward to your new location.
 173 If you simply hit the <RETURN> key instead of a command,
 174 it is the same as typing
 175 .Ic roll .
 176 .El
 177 .Sh AUTHOR
 178 Ken Arnold
 179 .Sh FILES
 180 .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/games/cards.pck -compact
 181 .It Pa /usr/share/games/cards.pck
 182 Chance and Community Chest cards
 183 .El
 184 .Sh BUGS
 185 No command can be given an argument instead of a response to a query.