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<sect1 id="Kings_Audience"><!--<sect1info>
    <copyright>
      <year>2005</year>
      <holder>Zach Keene</holder>
    </copyright>
    <author>
      <firstname>Zach</firstname>
      <surname>Keene</surname>
    </author>
    <address><email>zjkeene@bellsouth.net</email></address>
  </sect1info>-->

  <title>King's Audience</title>

  <para>Written by Zach Keene</para>

          <sect2><title>Setup</title>


  <informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
	<row>
	  <entry>Type of Deck</entry>
	  <entry>Standard Deck</entry>
	</row>
        <row>
          <entry>Reserves (Antechamber)</entry>
          <entry>The outer rectangle of sixteen cards. Cards in the reserve are available to play, and are replenished from the Waste (or the Stock if no cards are currently in the Waste.)</entry>
        </row>
	<row>
	  <entry>Stock</entry>
	  <entry>Left slot in the centre row. Cards are dealt one at a time to the Waste. There is no redeal.</entry>
	</row>
        <row>
          <entry>Waste</entry>
          <entry>Slot to the right of the Stock. The top card of the Waste is available to play.</entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry>"Thrones"</entry>
          <entry>Top four slots in the "audience chamber" (the area inside the surrounding sixteen cards.) Whenever a King and Queen of the same suit are available, they can be move to one of these slots.</entry>
	</row>
	<row>
	  <entry>Foundations</entry>
	  <entry>Bottom four slots in the audience chamber. Whenever a Jack and an Ace of the same suit are available, they can be moved to an empty Foundation slot, with the Jack on top. The foundation then may be built down in suit.</entry>
	</row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>

          </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Goal</title>

  <para>Move all cards to the foundation piles or thrones.</para>

          </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Rules</title>

  <para>Deal cards one at a time from Stock to Waste. Whenever a King and Queen of the same suit are available, they can be moved into a throne slot by either by dragging the King onto the Queen (or vice versa) or double-clicking either card. Whenever a Jack and Ace of the same suit are available, they can be moved into a foundation slot in the same manner.</para>

          </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Scoring</title>

  <para>Each card placed in the audience chamber receives one point.</para>
  <para>Maximum possible score: 52</para>

          </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Strategy</title>

  <para>None; King's Audience is pretty much entirely based on luck.</para>
        </sect2>
</sect1>
