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Loch Ness is a quick-thinking, high-scoring Solitaire game. Each hand
is fast and easy to win, but the challenge is to beat your highest score.
How To Play
Additional Features
System Requirements
File List
When the game begins, seven stacks are dealt with five cards each. Your goal is
to remove all the cards from the seven stacks and place them on the build pile before time
runs out. In order to move a card onto the build pile, it has to be 1 rank higher or
1 rank lower than the card that's already there (regardless of suit). So, if the
build pile shows a 10, you can move a 9 or a Jack (of any suit) onto the build pile.
The rest of the cards in the deck are placed face down in a draw pile. Whenever
you can't move a card from the stacks -- or whenever you don't want to move a
card from the stacks -- you can click on the draw pile to replace the top card on the
build pile. However, there are only 19 cards in the draw pile, so use them wisely!
Two of the seven stacks have "Free Cards" at the bottom of them.
Whenever you reach a "Free Card", you are awarded an extra build pile to work
with. There are also 4 Jokers in the deck. A Joker can be placed on top of any
card, and any card can be placed on top of a Joker.
 Start of Game |
 Middle of Game |
 End of Game |
Loch Ness version 1.0 also has the following features:
- High Score Table - keeps track of the top ten high scores;
lets you enter a comment for each.
- Music and Sound Effects - plays background midi files and
WAV sound effects; option to turn it on or off.
- Fast Download - only 225 kilobytes; smaller than many web
pages, takes about a minute on a 56.6k modem.
- Cheap - it only costs $7 to register; come on, that's less
than the price of a pizza!
And best of all, Loch Ness is a shareware game, so you can try it for free before you
buy it!
Loch Ness has very modest system requirements:
- Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT4
- Approximately 600 KB of available disk space (it fits on a floppy disk)
- Windows-compatible sound card (for sound effects and background music)
Note that Loch Ness does NOT work on Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, or any non-PC platform.
A complete installation of Loch Ness includes the following files:
- LOCHNESS.EXE
- CARDS32.DLL
- ORDER.TXT
- LICENSE.DOC
- VENDOR.DOC
- FILE_ID.DIZ
- README.TXT
- SONG1.MID
- SONG2.MID
- SONG3.MID
- SONG4.MID
- SONG5.MID
- SONG6.MID
- SONG7.MID
- BADCLICK.WAV
- SCORTIME.WAV
- SCORCARD.WAV
- MOVECARD.WAV
- HELP.HTM
- HEAD.JPG
- BUMP.JPG
- TAIL.JPG
- RUN.GIF
Loch Ness is distributed as a ZIP file, the worldwide standard for file compression and
packaging. See the WinZip home page to obtain
your copy of the WinZip compression software today.
