# Five or More Manual

To play Five or More one must align coloured pieces as the board gets filled with randomly placed pieces. When five or more pieces of the same colour get lined up, they disappear. The game ends when the board gets filled up all the way.

2000–2002
Emese Kovács
2007
David Lodge (dave@cirt.net)
GNOME Documentation Project

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Emese
Kovács
GNOME Documentation Project

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Five or More Manual V2.8
September 2004

Emese Kovács emese@gnome.hu

GNOME Documentation Project

This manual describes version 2.12 of Five or More.

## Feedback

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the Five or More application or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page.

## Introduction

Five or More, is the Gnome port of the once popular Windows game called Colour Lines The game's objective is to align as often as possible five or more objects of the same colour and shape causing them to disappear. Play as long as possible, and be #1 in the High Scores.

To run Five or More, select Five or More from the Games submenu of the Main Menu, or type `glines` on the command line.

Five or More is included in the `GNOME-games` package, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version 2.8 of Five or More.

## Playing Five or More

Playing Five or More is easy. At startup, you find yourself with five objects randomly positioned on the board. Each turn, you are allowed to move one object. You can move it anywhere on the board as long as there is a clear path. Afterward, the computer drops more objects at random positions (the exact number depends on the size of the game). You can preview the next objects to be dropped in the upper left corner of the game's window. If you manage to align five objects of the same shape and color, they disappear and you are given an extra move before more objects drop.

### Basic usage

Starting Five or More presents you with the game board and a new game starts. What it looks like is shown in .

#### The main window when you start a game.

As the game progresses, the board gets more and more crowded (unless you are really good...) and making objects disappear gets harder and harder. The game is over, when the board is full.

#### Game over!

### Playing the Game

A game of Five or More begins with some random objects on the board.

To make a move, click on one of the objects. When an object is activated it starts rotating (or doing something else depending on the theme, but let us not anticipate…). You can then select its destination by clicking an empty square. If the path to the destination is clear the activated item travels there. If the destination square is occupied by another object nothing will be moved and the selection will be transferred to the new object. If the path is not clear (you cannot jump objects over obstacles!) the application prints a warning in the status bar (bottom of the window) and the original object remains active.

As objects disappear, you get points. The points you score depends on the number of objects you managed to align (see ). Your score is shown in the upper right corner of the window.

#### Scoring in Five or More

Number of objects | Score given
--- | ---
5 | 10
6 | 12
7 | 18
8 | 28
9 | 42
10 | 82
11 | 108
12 | 138
13 | 172
14 | 210

#### Using the Keyboard

Instead of using the mouse you can use the keyboard to play Five or More. To use the keyboard, hit an arrow key and a cursor will appear near the centre of the board. The arrow keys will move the cursor. When the cursor is over the object you want to move, use the spacebar to select it. Then shift the cursor to the object's destination and hit the space bar again to move the object.

If you start using the mouse again, the cursor will disappear. The cursor will reappear if you use the arrow keys again.

## Customising the Game

You can configure Five or More by clicking on Preferences in the applications Settings menu. The following dialogue will appear:

### Preferences

You can select different object styles and background colours in the Themes section. If you find it difficult distinguishing the colours, try the shapes theme.

The Board Size section lets you select the size of the board. Each size has a slightly different balance: larger sizes give you more space to move, but more objects arrive each turn. The parameters for each size are given in .

### Scoring in Five or More

Size | Width | Height | Number of Types | Objects per Turn
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Small | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3
Medium | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3
Large | 20 | 15 | 7 | 7

You can speed up the movement of the objects by checking the Use fast moves box in the General preferences section.

Any changes you make are instantly applied and remembered for the next time you run Five or More.

## How to create new themes

Each theme consists of a single PNG image file. This image consists of an array of seven rows, corresponding to the different object colours/shapes, and four columns, each of which is a frame in the animation of the object. The actual size of the image is irrelevant, it will be rescaled, but the sub-images must form a four by seven grid to get the correct effect. When using SVG remember that the image size is the page size, if your grid does not fill the page try shrinking the page size. Use an existing theme as a guide.

## Authors

Five or More was written by Róbert Szókovács (szo@appaloosacorp.hu) and Szabolcs Bán (shooby@gnome.hu). This manual was written by Emese Kovács (emese@gnome.hu). For information on how to make comments, suggestions and to report bugs please see the feedback document.

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