Copyright (C) 1997, 2003 Yoshitaka Nagano All Rights Reserved. --- Program name : Summing Version : 1.1.1 Author : Yoshitaka Nagano E-mail : nicenine@ck.tnc.ne.jp Software type : Freeware OS : PalmOS 2.0 or later Tested machines : Vx, IIIc Note : No guarantee. --- 1. Introduction In the game of Summing, you place numbered tiles on th board to make tiles disappear. Here's how it works; When you place a tile, imagine that you are placing it in the middle of a 3x3 set of squares. If part of the 3x3 array is outside the playing filed, just ignore those squares. Add up the sum of all the tiles surrounding the piece you are playing in their middle. (Empty squares do not affect the sum.) If the last digit of that sum is the same as your tile, all these pieces will disapper. We race the lowest of the number of placing times. 2. Usage 2.1 Start Please push the "New Game" button. The game playing field is 9x9. 7x7 tiles already have been placed in the playing filed. 2.2 Basic Operation The left colum shows the next 4 tiles to be places. You can place the top tile from the left column on any empty square. If the newly placed tiles'8 (or fewer) neightbors sum to the placed tile modulaus 10 (i.e., ignore the 10's dight), then all of them are removed. 2.3 Score Your score is displayed at next of the "New Game" button. The score means the number of placing times. If the all boxes squarere empty on the playfield, you will finish the game, while if the playfield is full, your game is over. If your score is lower than in the top 5, your score is ranked in it. 2.4 Examples and Tips. 2.4.1 Example 1 If you have a "9" tile, you can place it next to a 7 and a 2, or a 3, 3 and 3, etc. Remember, tiles touch cach other on the faces AND the corners. This is advantageous, becaouse if you place a tile touching only the corner of a same-numbered tile, they both disapper. Also very important, which is poorly described in the instrctions, is that you only pay atention to the "ones" place of the sum. 2.4.2 Example 2 If there are three tiles that add up to 18, you can place an 8 tile next to them. Even that extreme case of three 9's addding up to 27, just place that 7 tile next to it. 2.4.3 Exmaple 3 If you have a 0 that you can't find a place for, just place it where it's touching nothing. Nothing plus nothing is zero. It disappears all by itself. Of course, you cound also put it next to something that adds up to 10 or 20. When you get down to the last few pieces, you really need to watch the upcoming tiles so that you can make sure your placements add up to the right number for the finishing move, otherwise you'll end up filling your board bank up again. 3. Copyright and Distribution. Summing is freeware. Under following conditions, this software can be distributed or uploaded freely, and not be restricted. (a) Do NOT modify copyright notice. (b) There's no guarantee about troubles caused by the existence of this program or by using this program. (c) The contents of original package should be redistributed. (d) When you distribute this program commercially, (e.g. a book or a CD-ROM), please send the distribution to me free, if possible. 4. History 4.1 Summing June 17th 1997 : For Macintosh version 1.0.0. June 11th 2003 : For Palm, version 1.0.0. June 29th 2003 : For Palm, version 1.1.0. "Read me (English).txt" is improved. Showing NEXT numbered tiles is improved for non-color devices. July 5th 2003 : For Palm, Version 1.1.1. The .prc file in the release 1.1.0 is still v1.0.0. Fixed the version number in the launcher info window. 4.2 My Palmware March 28th 2003 : NiceNine for Palm, version 1.0.0. June 11th 2003 : Summing for Palm, version 1.0.0. June 29th 2003 : Summing for Palm, version 1.1.0. July 5th 2003 : Summing for Palm, version 1.1.1. 5. Special thanks. I received English instructions from Tobias Robison, Greg Gaub and Robert Jen etc, because the old English instruction of Version 1.0.0 is not good. This instruction of Version 1.1.0 is based on thiers instructions. I'm thanks that they helped me in writing this instrucion. 6. Afterword Summing is 2nd created software for Palm by me. I hope that you enjoy playing my software. If you find a bug, please teach me it. Thank you.