BrainChk ======== Version 1.0 Date 17/07/1997 Overview ~~~~~~~~ BrainChk is based on a game I used to play when I was young with a standard deck of cards. It is one of those really simple (additive) games. The aim of the game is to use standard mathamatical operations on the top row of cards to arrive at the value on the lower card. You must use all of the cards, else its too easy. For example, for the puzzle "3, 16, 7, 14, 7 ==> 15" there are many solutions like: "3 - (16-14) + 7 + 7 = 15" or "(16 + 14) / (3 - (7/7)) = 15" and so on. The game is best played against another human but you can play against the computer. The computer is not very clever so you should win on all the easy ones, the computer gets the edge on the more difficult puzzles that require multiplication and division. Registration and License ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The program is slightly disabled when unregistered it will after 30 days gradually reduce the ratio of solutions displayed from 100% down to 10% (after 60 days). Once you send in the money with a user-name of your choosing, a registration key will be returned. Enter your user-name and the registration yet exactly as returned to you. All the registrations are handled by ShareIt! They offer registration by post, phone, fax, e-mail or web. Web: http://www.shareit.com/programs/100443.htm Phone: +49-221-2407279 +49-172-7229837 Fax: +49-221-2407278 E-Mail: register@shareit.com Mail: Reimold & Schumann Internet services, ShareIt!, Jahnstrasse 24, 50676, Germany. Send a user-name of between 6 and 10 characters, and the program number, 100443. Registering will entitle you to any upgrades I release for fixes or improvements, the key system will remain constant. Delivery of upgrades will be ad-hoc and available on the web (http://www.shareit.com/programs/100443.htm). I do not undertake to despatch upgrades to all registered users. Contacting the Author ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may contact me, by e-mail at chris_a@usa.net, this is an address supplied by Net@ddress (www.netaddress.net, highly recommended) so that you can't guess (or blame) the software company I work for during the day. Sorry to sound so unfriendly but there are some strange people out there! Having said all that there are some communications I would welcome: · Registrations: These are passed on by the registration service automatically, so you don't have to. · Bug reports: Well who's perfect. Send me the details you can: Version, OS, processor (Intel/AMD etc), current puzzle and a saved deck if possible. · PC difficult puzzles: Please send me puzzles that the program can't solve. · Person difficult puzzles: I haven't found any impossible puzzles yet, although some have taken hours to solve. If there is sufficient interest I may even set-up a web page and fill it with difficult decks. Registration Form ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BrainChk Registration Form Program Number: 100443 User Name: |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| (only used to in the registration dialog) Last Name: ______________________________________________________ First Name: ______________________________________________________ Street & #: ______________________________________________________ City, State, Code: ______________________________________________________ Country: ______________________________________________________ Phone/Fax: ______________________________________________________ E-Mail: ______________________________________________________ How would you like to receive the registration key: e-mail fax mail How would you like to pay the $20 registration fee: credit card wire transfer EuroCheque Cash Credit card details if required: Card: Visa Mastercard Eurocard American Express Diners Club Card Holder: ______________________________________________________ Card Number: |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| Expiry Date: |___|___| / |___|___|___|___| Signature: ______________________________________________________ Date: |___|___| / |___|___| / |___|___|___|___| Legal ~~~~~ NOTICE TO USERS: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LEGAL AGREEMENT. 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