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     NAME
          pig - Hearts-like card game

     SYNOPSIS
          pig [-option ...]

     DESCRIPTION
          Pig is a card game similar to Hearts, derived from Chinese card game
          Gong3Zhu1 (pig-driving). It allows four players at different locations
          to play a card game simultaneously. The game is started by one player
          who has the xhost access permissions guaranteed by other players.
          During the game, players can communicate among themselves using a
          simple talk window. Conversations between two players are open to
          others.

          The objective of the game is to avoid getting positive scores and try
          to collect negative scores. Pig (Black Queen) and all the Hearts
          bigger than four are assigned positive scores, while Sheep (Diamond
          Jack) is assigned a negative score.  Transformer (Club Ten) will
          double the scores accumulated in one hand. Score assignments are:

          positive:
            Heart Two    : 0
            Heart Three  : 0
            Heart Four   : 0
            Heart Five   : +10
            Heart Six    : +10
            Heart Seven  : +10
            Heart Eight  : +10
            Heart Nine   : +10
            Heart Ten    : +10
            Heart Jack   : +20
            Heart Queen  : +30
            Heart King   : +40
            Heart Ace    : +50
            Pig (Black Jack): +100

          negative:
            Sheep (Diamond Jack): -100

          doubler:
            Transformer (Club Ten): doubles total score

          The total score for all the Hearts is +200. Once one player's score
          accumulated from all the hands played reaches +1000 the game is over.
          To make the game more exciting, Pig, Sheep, Heart Ace, and Transformer
          can be shown before one hand starts. Pig will have +200 after shown
          and Sheep will have -200. Showing Heart Ace will double all the Heart
          scores. Transformer becomes a quadrupler after shown.

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          There are a few exceptions:

          (1) if a player collects all the Hearts (including ones without
          score), the score associated with all the Hearts becomes -200;

          (2) if a player collects Transformer alone at the end of a hand, the
          score with it will be -50 or -100 if shown.

          (3) if a player collects all the Hearts (including ones without
          score), plus Pig, Sheep, and Transformer, all other players will be
          considered lost and a new game will start.

          The game requires more thinking when played in pair and is more fun.

     OPTIONS
          -n1 name1
                  specify player1's name (default: player1)

          -n2 name2
                  specify player2's name (default: player2)

          -n3 name3
                  specify player3's name (default: player3)

          -n4 name4
                  specify player4's name (default: player4)

          -d1 host1:display1[.screen1]
                  specify player1's display name (default specified by the
                  DISPLAY environment variable)

          -d2 host2:display2[.screen2]
                  specify player2's display name (default specified by the
                  DISPLAY environment variable)

          -d3 host3:display3[.screen3]
                  specify player3's display name (default specified by the
                  DISPLAY environment variable)

          -d4 host4:display4[.screen4]
                  specify player4's display name (default specified by the
                  DISPLAY environment variable)

          -iconic start game with the windows as icons

          -noshow disable score doubling by skipping the card showing

          -pair   play game in pair

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          -bell loudness
                  specify bell loudness from 0 (no sound) to 100 (loudest)

     ENVIRONMENT
          DISPLAY To get the default host, display number, and screen for all
                  the players' screens

     SEE ALSO
          X(1)

     BUGS
          There are fixed number of players, and computer does not play.

     AUTHOR
          Yanan Yin

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