From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   One upon a time, my sister learned an extremely difficult   
   to win two-deck solitaire game at college, and taught it   
   to my dad and I.   
      
   She couldn't remember its name, so we've always called it   
   "The Game".   
      
   Cards being a cumbersome Real Reality (tm) pain in the ass   
   at times, I wound up writing it in Lua for terminal play.   
      
   (FWIW, Lua is easily my favorite language. Its   
   block-enclosing syntax annoys me a little, but Lua is   
   simple, and has a fantastic features:size ratio. And at the   
   time I did my initial investigation to finally settle on   
   a go-to scripting language, it also seemed to be the most   
   easily portable between varieties of devices/OS's. (And,   
   yes, this is a plug, because I'm a Faithful Believer   
   (tm).))   
      
   Given Lua's luscious portability, it runs exactly the same   
   in the Linux within my Chromebook's "Terminal" app, and in   
   a Termux session on my Android phone. Glorious!   
      
   Here's how it looks: (the 'xxxxxxx' blots out my actual   
   login name):   
      
   xxxxxxx@penguin:~$ tg   
   AC* AH* AS* AD* KC* KH* KS* KD*   
   2D2 7C2 TH2 8D2 KD2 8H2 QD1   
   QS1 JC1 8D1 KS1 4D2 AH1 8C1   
   8C1   
   7H1   
   7C1   
   JS1   
   9C2   
   Stack card: KS1 (30) (74)   
   1) KD2 -> KD*   
   2) KS1 -> KS*   
   3) AH1 -> AH*   
   1 <============================= executed play 1   
   === performing: KD2 -> KD*   
   AC* AH* AS* AD* KC* KH* KS* KD2  <===== see KD2?   
   2D2 7C2 TH2 8D2 3C1 8H2 QD1   
   QS1 JC1 8D1 KS1 4D2 AH1 8C1   
   8C1   
   7H1   
   7C1   
   JS1   
   9C2   
   Stack card: KS1 (30) (73)   
   1) QD1 -> KD2   
   2) KS1 -> KS*   
   3) AH1 -> AH*   
     <============================= awaiting input   
      
   Ain't that just command line grand?   
      
   Oh... I should mention that of *course* it's going to   
   look like a disaster if you're reading this in a variable   
   width font. This mention is because the other day someone   
   commented on something I wrote as though I'd created some   
   kind of visual mess for them, and then realized their   
   comment suggested they were probably viewing my post in   
   a variable-width font. I mean, what kind of bastion of   
   cluelessness views USENET posts in a variable-width font?   
      
   But, then, that's apparently the world we "live" in....   
      
      
      
   (No, I'm not going to explain what all of what you're   
   seeing means, because it wouldn't make sense without   
   understanding The Game, and I don't think The Game could   
   be taught other than in person with an actual physical   
   double deck.)   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)