Portable Puzzle Collection

[Sietse Fliege]

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

"A collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle
games. All of them run natively on Windows, on Unix (GTK), and on Mac OS X
(10.3). It's also been ported to the Palm.

I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop
toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or
three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing. And
I was also annoyed that every time I found a good game on (say) Unix, it
wasn't available the next time I was sitting at a Windows machine, or vice
versa; so I arranged that everything in my personal puzzle collection will
happily run on both those platforms and more."

I've only tried Solo, which is a Sudoku implementation, but with a nice
puzzle generating feature.
And Map: Colour the map so that adjacent regions are never the same colour.
Map is not a re-implementation of an existing game, but in some way still
also familiair to Sudoku, IMO.

Note: there is one Windows Help file for all games.

 

[Vegard Krog Petersen]

Sietse Fliege skrev:

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

"A collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle
games. All of them run natively on Windows, on Unix (GTK), and on Mac OS X
(10.3). It's also been ported to the Palm.

I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop
toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or
three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing. And
I was also annoyed that every time I found a good game on (say) Unix, it
wasn't available the next time I was sitting at a Windows machine, or vice
versa; so I arranged that everything in my personal puzzle collection will
happily run on both those platforms and more."

I've only tried Solo, which is a Sudoku implementation, but with a nice
puzzle generating feature.
And Map: Colour the map so that adjacent regions are never the same colour.
Map is not a re-implementation of an existing game, but in some way still
also familiair to Sudoku, IMO.

Note: there is one Windows Help file for all games.

Thanks Sietse for finding this gem!

regards from vegard - http://vegard2.no

 

[ms]

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

"A collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle
games. All of them run natively on Windows, on Unix (GTK), and on Mac OS X
(10.3). It's also been ported to the Palm.

I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop
toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or
three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing. And
I was also annoyed that every time I found a good game on (say) Unix, it
wasn't available the next time I was sitting at a Windows machine, or vice
versa; so I arranged that everything in my personal puzzle collection will
happily run on both those platforms and more."

I've only tried Solo, which is a Sudoku implementation, but with a nice
puzzle generating feature.
And Map: Colour the map so that adjacent regions are never the same colour.
Map is not a re-implementation of an existing game, but in some way still
also familiair to Sudoku, IMO.

Note: there is one Windows Help file for all games.

Thanks, very nice small no-install games.

Mike Sa

 

[Chief Suspect]

Indeed ... a capital collection! Thanx Sietse Fliege.
That Solo (SoDuko) games is probably the best I have
seen anywhere.

 

[Sietse Fliege]

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Indeed ... a capital collection! Thanx Sietse Fliege.

You're welcome!. I stumbled upon it and from a quick Google search I got the
impression that it was best known in the linux community, so maybe something
new for the acf folks.

That Solo (SoDuko) game is probably the best I have seen anywhere.

Personally I like Simple Sudoku the best:
http://angusj.com/sudoku/