Games Manual
| Dots | Chomp | Tic-Tac-Toe | Minesweeper |
From the File Menu, choose Options, Setup. This will allow you to choose the number of players you would like to play the game. Then choose Options, Add Player for each individual player you would like to add. For each player, enter your name and the color you would like your lines to be. The choices are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, and purple. You can either choose 2 players so you can play against someone else or just enter one player and play against the computer.
Once the players are set-up, you are ready to play the game! Click on any line in the board and your line will appear, connecting 2 dots. The object of the game is to complete as many Boxes as possible. You complete a Box by being the person to draw in the last edge of a Box. Any time you complete a box, you get another turn. When the board is full, the player with the most Boxes wins!!
To play again, select File, Choose Game from the Menu Bar and play Dots again or choose another game!
Troubleshooting
If you can't see the scoreboard at first, try moving the gameboard. It's probably underneath it
From the File Menu, choose Options, Setup. This will allow you to choose the number of players you would like to play the game. Then choose Options, Add Player for each individual player you would like to add. For each player enter their name. If you choose to have only 1 player, the second player will automatically be an artificial intelligence (AI) and you can play against the computer.
Once the players are set up, you are ready to play the game! Click on any O button. This click will change all the buttons below and to the right of your click to X's. The object of the game is not to be the player that clicks the upper lefthand corner. The text bar at the bottom says whose turn it is so you simply trade turns with the mouse. If you are playing against a computer, the computer makes it's choice immediately after your choice, so don't be surprised when some things on the board change that you didn't click on.
When then board is all filled, click anywhere on the board to start a new game. The scoreboard will keep a running tally of how many games each person has won. If you wish to reset the scoreboard, select File, Choose Game from the menu bar and once again click on Chomp. This will reset everything.
Troubleshooting
If you can't see the scoreboard at first, try moving the gameboard. It's probably underneath it.
From the File Menu, choose Options, Setup. This will allow you to choose the number of players you would like to play the game. Then choose Options, Add Player for each individual player you would like to add. For each player enter their name and choose an icon by clicking on Browse. If you choose to have only 1 player, the second player will automatically be an artificial intelligence (AI) and you can play against the computer.
Once the players are set up, you are ready to play the game! Click on any button to make your move. You are trying to get three in a row, column, or diagonal. The scoreboard says whose turn it is so you simply trade turns with the mouse. If you are playing against a computer, the computer makes it's choice immediately after your choice, so don't be surprised when some things on the board change that you didn't click on.
When then board is all filled, the game automatically restarts and the board will clear. The scoreboard will keep a running tally of how many games each person has won. If you wish to reset the scoreboard, select File, Choose Game from the menu bar and once again click on Tic-Tac-Toe. This will reset everything.
Troubleshooting
If you can't see the scoreboard at first, try moving the gameboard. It's probably underneath it.
From the File Menu, choose Options, Add Player for the one player you would like to add. This game is only one player. The player will then enter his or her name.
Once the player isset up, you are ready to play the game! Click on any button to make your move. You are trying to not click on the bombs. If you left click you see what's in the position and if you right click you mark the space with a flag. The numbers that you might see when you left click says how many bombs are bordering that position.
When all the non-bomb spaces are clicked on, all the bombs are marked, or a bomb is clicked on, the game is over. In order to restart the game, click on the smiley face. The scoreboard will keep a running tally of how many games the player has won and the time on the last game. If you wish to reset the scoreboard, select File, Choose Game from the menu bar and once again click on Minesweeper. This will reset everything.
Troubleshooting
If you can't see the scoreboard at first, try moving the gameboard. It's probably underneath it.