SearchAllSoft.com - Piquet by MeggieSoft Games 2008

MeggieSoft Games Piquet is a comprehensive implementation of the highly-regarded lineup gage dating back to the 15th century. Play against an online opposer or against your computer. There are many customizable graphic, wakeless (including MIDI music and address output), formula and scoring options. Six different computer opponents are available for when you are unable to receive online, or equitable want to apply privately. Piquet is a gage of exchanging cards, declaring combinations, and playing tricks with the object of scoring more points than your opposer. Each gage, or "partie", comprises 6 rounds. Piquet is one of the oldest lineup games and is widely regarded to be the finest and most challenging lineup gage ever devised for two players. Each round starts by the players exchanging some of their cards with fresh cards from the "talon" (the stock). The resolve phase follows during which the players seek to out bid each other's Point (hanker suit), Sequences (runs) and Sets (ternion or quaternary of the same range). The winner in each category oodles points for the winning resolve and any additional sequences or sets, respectively. Finally the cards are played as tricks, with points awarded for leading and capturing tricks. The challenge of Piquet is to equilibrise the convert, the declarations and the deception winning in grade to take the maximum advantage over the opposer. Special bonuses exist in both the resolve and deception phases for the artful player. The user interface, mutual to altogether MeggieSoft Games, supports both point-and-click and drag-and-drop mouse operations. Features include: realistic animated lineup movement; right-click pop-up menus; a suggest facility; a tutorial; automatic play; automatic save and restore of partly finished games; multiple-user scoreboards; a plum and uncluttered main window; status-bar shortcut buttons; and fully customizable main show font and wallpaper effects for the table and playing entangle, and the lineup backs.