Cheating in AisleRiot 2.22.2.1 possible?

[Anders Andersson]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

I was playing Seahaven. According to the rules, you can only move "free reserve slots+1" number of cards at maximum. However the game has a feature that if it is valid to move the lowest card in a stack, you are able to move the hole stack of cards to the foundation.

I had a stack consiting of many cards (more than five). I call that stack X. The only legal move was to move it, stack X, to the foundation. Another move was possible, to move the stack X to another stack Y, but I had too many cards in the stack X to to that.

The game usually prohibits movement of cards at all if the stack is to big to be able to move, but now that lock was release on stack X because it could move to the foundation. I was also, despite the rules, able to cheat by moving it to stack Y. It accepted, even marked the lowest card on stack Y blue, signaling that the move was possible.

This is probably not cheating in Seahaven, since the best move is always to move the cards to the foundation. However, the engine is the same for all games and this might be cheating in another game. It is against the rules anyhow. The move should only be valid to the foundation and not to stack Y.

My version is from Ubuntu gnome-games 1:2.22:.2.1-0ubuntu1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-games

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

gnome-games:
  Installerad: 1:2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
  Versionstabell:
     1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
 *** 1:2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.22.1.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 9 09:16:47 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: gnome-games 1:2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-games
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, may you forward it upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org since you're facing the issue? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks in advance.

[Anders Andersson (anders-andersson-kentor)]

Done: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556016

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-games - 1:2.25.5-0ubuntu1

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gnome-games (1:2.25.5-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #298331, #280755, #237785, #194938, #189734,
    #262932)
  * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch:
    - adapt to new upstream version
    - remove old LPI implementation for gnothello (depending on libgnomeui)
      to use GtkBuilder
    - add Launchpad integration for glchess (using glade) and gnome-sudoku (using
      GtkBuilder) (LP: #155269)
  * debian/patches/02_desktop-path.patch: adapt to new .desktop upstream version
  * debian/patches/70_autotools.patch:
   - run autoreconf in jaunty (libtool 2.2.6) to update the configure and a
     bunch of files
  * debian/gnome-cards-data.install: take the whole gnome-games-common directory as
    being only used for card games. theme-install.ini is now in gnome-cards-data
    package.
  * debian/control.in:
   - remove libgnome* dependencies
   - bump libgtk2.0-dev prereq to 2.14.0
   - add python-launchpad-integration dependency to satisfy glchess and
     gnome-soduko python games LPI
   - regenerate debian/control

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:44:02 +0100