TABLE OF CONTENTS System Requirements . 3 Installation . 3. Introduction . 5 Signing In . 6 HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES Making a Face . 8 Starting a Game . 11 Placing a Bet . .11 Bankrolls, Credit Cards, Loans . 12 HOYLE® ROYAL SUITE . 13. HOYLE® PLAYER REWARDS . 14. Trophy Case . 15 Customizing HOYLE® CASINO GAMES Environment . 15. Themes . 16. Playing Cards . 17. Playing Games in Full Screen . 17 Setting Game Rules and Options . 17 Changing Player Setting . 18 Talking Face Creator . 19 HOYLE® Computer Players . 19. Tournament Play . 22. Short cut Keys . 23 Viewing Bet Results and Statistics . 23 Game Help . 24 Quitting the Games . 25 Blackjack . 25. Blackjack Variations . 36. Video Blackjack . 42 1 HOYLE® Card Games 2009 Bridge . 44. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Canasta . 50. Windows® XP (Home & Pro) SP3/Vista SP1¹, Catch The Ten . 57 Pentium® IV 2 .4 GHz processor or faster, Crazy Eights . 58. 512 MB (1 GB RAM for Vista), Cribbage . 60. 1024x768 16 bit color display, Euchre . 63 64MB VRAM (Intel GMA chipsets supported), 3 GB Hard Disk Space, Gin Rummy . 66. DVD-ROM drive, Hearts . 69. 33 .6 Kbps modem or faster and internet service provider Knockout Whist . 70 account required for internet access . Broadband internet service Memory Match . 71. recommended .² Minnesota Whist . 73. Macintosh® Old Maid . 74. OS X 10 .4 .10-10 .5 .4 Pinochle . 75. Intel Core Solo processor or better, Pitch . 81 1 .5 GHz or higher processor, Poker . 84. 512 MB RAM, 64MB VRAM (Intel GMA chipsets supported), Video Poker . 86 3 GB hard drive space, President . 96 DVD-ROM drive, Rummy 500 . 97. 33 .6 Kbps modem or faster and internet service provider Skat . 99. account required for internet access . Broadband internet service recommended .² Solitaire . 107. Spades . 114 ¹Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program Spite & Malice . 116 on Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS X . Tarot . 122 Team Cow Game . 128 ²User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges . Whist . 129. INSTALLATION References . 131 Credits . 132 Windows: Legal Information . 134. 1 . Exit all programs and insert the HOYLE® Card Games 2009 Technical Support . 134 DVD into the DVD-ROM drive . The Installation window opens automatically if Autorun is enabled on your system . Customer Service . 135 Limited Warranty . 136 Note: If you have disabled Autorun on your computer, choose Run from the Start menu to open the Run dialog box . Type D:\HOYLE® Remedies . 137 CardGames2009 .msi (If your DVD drive is something other than “D”, substitute the correct drive letter .) 2 3 HOYLE® Card Games 2009 2 . Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation . INTRODUCTION Macintosh: Welcome to HOYLE® CARD GAMES, a collection of classic card 1 . Insert the HOYLE® Card Games 2009 DVD into your games for all ages . HOYLE® CARD GAMES includes popular trick- DVD-ROM drive . taking games like Spades, Bridge, Pinochle and Hearts; challenging 2 . Drag the HOYLE® Card Games 2009 program icon into your melding games like Gin and Canasta, popular favorites Poker and Applications folder (or wherever you’d like it to be) on your Solitaire (fifty different single-deck, double-deck and arcade games), hard drive . The HOYLE® Card Games 2009 program icon will family favorites like Old Maid and more . now copy from the DVD to your computer’s hard drive . In addition to providing you an overview of some of the new features of HOYLE® CARD GAMES 2009, this guide is a standalone card Uninstalling HOYLE® CARD GAMES game rule book and strategy guide . For help using HOYLE® CARD Windows: GAMES, refer to the in-game Help by clicking the Help button at the bottom of the game screen and selecting the desired topic . 1 . Choose Settings from the Start menu . ® 2 . Choose Control Panel from Settings . You can play most of the games found in HOYLE CARD GAMES with friends and family members at your computer, or you can play 3 . Double-click on Add/Remove Programs . against the witty and personable HOYLE® computer characters . Each character has a unique personality, and you can set characters’ 4 . Select the name of the program you want to uninstall and ® click on the Add or Remove button . skill levels to control how well they play . Our online feature, HOYLE ROYAL SUITE, allows you to play with other members of the HOYLE® 5 . Click Yes to confirm file deletion . online community . Chat live with other players as you play Bridge Macintosh: and enter tournaments . Be the top ranking HOYLE® player online! 1 . Delete the HOYLE® Card Games 2009 program icon from You can customize your game environment by setting the game the Applications directory of your hard drive . speed, turning on music and sound effects, and specifying how Running the Game often the HOYLE® characters talk . Set the backgrounds and card backs you like, and within each game, set options to make the Windows: game easier or more challenging or to use different rules variations . 1 . To run the game click Start, Programs, and select the Statistics are kept for all games, so you can try to beat your best HOYLE® game folder . Click on the game’s icon to run times or the high scores of other players . Plus, you can earn HOYLE® the game . PLAYER REWARDS to spend on additional game items, just by Macintosh: playing your favorite games! 1 . Double-click on the game icon in the HOYLE® Card Games We hope you have as much fun playing the games as we did making 2009 program icon to run the program . Once you have them! installed HOYLE® Card Games 2009, you may eject the DVD . ® (Please keep the DVD in a safe place in case you ever need —The HOYLE Team to re-install the game .) 4 5 HOYLE® Card Games 2009 Signing In e . Password: Select a password and confirm this pass word by retyping it in the Confirm section . When you start HOYLE® CARD GAMES, you will see the Main Menu 4 . Once you click OK, a new Manage Profiles box will appear . screen displaying three card game categories (Solo Games, Team Here you can edit your player, create new players, and switch Games, Video Machine), as well as the HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES between players . and HOYLE® ROYAL SUITE for online gaming . Follow the Welcome message instructions and click on the HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES 5 . Select Face Creator to show Face Creator pictures (ones you button . HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES is a central area where you can have made and a selection of premade faces), or select Non- access your character statistics, bankroll information, and get exciting talking to show non-talking pictures available to you . Then, in-game prizes by redeeming your HOYLE® PLAYER REWARDS! select the face you want to use by moving the horizontal bar . Selecting a Face Creator player will allow you to talk and Once in HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES, edit your character by choosing interact with other players . a name and picture to represent yourself . Creating a character allows 6 . To create your own unique character, click on Face Creator . ® you to track your player statistics, chat with HOYLE computer (See more detailed information in the Face Creator section .) characters, and access online play . You can also create additional You can also select Random to randomly assign features characters for yourself, friends, and family . One reason for creating while creating a character for yourself . You’re sure to see multiple players is that some games allow more than one player on some interesting combinations! the same computer . Another reason is that your statistics are tracked based on your player name . You can create new players at any time, 7 . Once you’ve saved your character, click Exit to return to and you can change your character face at any time . Manage Profiles . 8 . Select OK and you’re back to HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES To create a new player: and ready to play! 1 . Make sure you have selected HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES . To sign in a player created during a previous session: 2 . Click Manage Profiles underneath the character at the top 1 . Click the player’s name in the list . If necessary, scroll through left-hand corner . the list using the vertical scroll bar . To change the face for this 3 . A pop-up will open and ask for your player information . The player, see step 5 above . only required field is your player name . Your e-mail, zip code, 2 . Click OK to start playing games as this player . and password are only necessary if you would like to play online . a . Name: Enter your player username or nickname . Notes: You can remove a player from the list of players by selecting the player name and clicking the Delete button . The player (and all of b . Check Take This Account Online to create your his or her statistics) is removed permanently . online account . You can sign in as a different player after you’ve started HOYLE® c . E-mail: Enter your e-mail address . CARD GAMES . You might do this if someone else wants to play games and you don’t want to exit . From the Main Screen, click on the d . Zip code: Enter your 5 digit zip code . The zip code is HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES section to edit your player . necessary to set your time zone for online tournaments and other online options . 6 7 HOYLE® Card Games 2009 HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES To make a face in Face Creator: 1 . Click a feature (head, eyes, nose, etc .) on the Face Creator Just like a concierge in the big casinos, HOYLE® PLAYER SERVICES screen . The feature will be selected, and pictures you can use is at your service .