Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

[iago]

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a great little game pack for Linux etc. that I just love.

My proudest moment was beating "untangle" with 100 points:

Start ==> End

Took me about 2 hours, and felt pretty good!

[warz]

that must use directx 10

[iago]

At least.. the graphics are killer!

[Blaze]

Well, I've fallen in love with the Bridges game.

Here's some of the "harder" games I've done (Harder as it goes down), with the solution as an image, and a text file with the games import information.  The even harder ones have a _h in them, which means you can create up to four bridges in one direction instead of the normal two. 

http://maide.ca/public/screens/puzzles/bridges/

[Camel]

Bridges is easily my favorite. Blaze, there's no reason to post hte solution; the game will solve it for you - though there's no need, since every possible puzzle is either deterministic or has multiple solutions.

[Camel]

10x10m4:6c4g3d7a3a7aAb3h2c2a4h8bDaAy2a7a7d7c6b6a5 was fun; that's the first one where I came close to not solving it in under 60 seconds

[iago]

every possible puzzle is either deterministic or has multiple solutions.

You don't say?

[Warrior]

bridges would make an awesome iphone app

[Camel]

bridges would make an awesome iphone app

agree

[Camel]

Try this one (bridges):
10x10m4:4a7b3k3a6c1a2f7f8c4a9b4g6b7j4b3b4a1c3bAa5a36e6a2a

It's quite excellent.

[rabbit]

I can't get any of them to load :\

[Camel]

I can't get any of them to load :\

Do you have Java installed?

[rabbit]

Eh?  It's working now, but earlier it said "Applet PuzzleApplet started" at the bottom (does now), but it just showed a gray box.  Whatever

[edit]
Hm, it's only working for some of them (so far it works for Bridge and Cube), but not others (like 15 and Dominoes).

[Blaze]

Download the executable versions.  I find them a lot easier to play with. 

[rabbit]

On Linux?

[iago]

On Linux, download the source and compile it.

ron@slayer:~$ ls games/puzzles/
blackbox*       galaxiespicture*  mapsolver*      pegs*         tentssolver*
bridges*        galaxiessolver*   mineobfusc*     rect*         twiddle*
cube*           guess*            mines*          samegame*     unequal*
dominosa*       inertia*          mkfiles.pl*     sixteen*      unequalsolver*
fifteen*        latincheck*       net*            slant*        untangle*
filling*        lightup*          netslide*       slantsolver*
fillingsolver*  lightupsolver*    nullgame*       solo*
flip*           loopy*            pattern*        solosol

[rabbit]

Too much work.

[Blaze]

Too much work.

You're not allowed to pull the Linux card if you're not willing to put a little effort into something. 

[iago]

Too much work.

You're not allowed to pull the Linux card if you're not willing to put a little effort into something. 

Haha, totally! You shouldn't be on Linux unless you're willing to waste ~2 minutes compiling a simple program.

[Camel]

Too much work.

You're not allowed to pull the Linux card if you're not willing to put a little effort into something. 

Haha, totally! You shouldn't be on Linux unless you're willing to waste ~2 minutes compiling a simple program.

It takes your computer 2 minutes to compile a simple program? You should consider upgrading.

[iago]

It takes your computer 2 minutes to compile a simple program? You should consider upgrading.

My computer is a laptop that's about 4 years old. But realistically, the biggest game I play is Starcraft and I rarely install new programs. Why should I go drop $100s or $1000+ on a new computer when this one suits me perfectly?

And to be fair, it's like 20 simple programs..

[rabbit]

It's more effort than I feel like, since I don't think I'll be playing all of these very often.

[Camel]

It's more effort than I feel like, since I don't think I'll be playing all of these very often.

If you spend two minutes playing one game, it was worth two minutes doing something else while they compile in the background. Also, unless you're like iago and have a shit slow computer, it doesn't actually take more than a few seconds. You could probably even get iago to send them to you, and then it would take zero seconds of your time to compile.

Also, you broke the trend, jerk!

[rabbit]

I've used more than I care to remember.

[Sidoh]

[Camel]

I have a new favorite: 10x10m4:a4c7c47a7a2a5a3d3a4f8cAb9c2k4f6c2a5m2b5b5a3b4e5

I think I am addicted...

[rabbit]

I said it was too much work!

[edit]
Okay, now the site is being stupid again.  Some of the applets load, show the screen, then a gray box replaces it, and at the bottom it says "Applet PuzzleApplet bail".  Arg.

Code: [Select]

cc   -O2 -Wall -Werror -g -I./ -Iicons/ `sh -c 'pkg-config gtk+-2.0 $0 2>/dev/null || gtk-config $0' --cflags`  -c gtk.c -o gtk.o
gtk.c:18:35: error: gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h: No such file or directory
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
gtk.c: In function ‘new_window’:
gtk.c:1828: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data’
gtk.c:1829: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘g_list_append’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
gtk.c:1831: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_window_set_icon_list’
gtk.c: In function ‘main’:
gtk.c:2171: error: ‘GdkPixbuf’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gtk.c:2171: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
gtk.c:2171: error: for each function it appears in.)
gtk.c:2171: error: ‘pb’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gtk.c:2172: error: ‘GError’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gtk.c:2172: error: ‘gerror’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gtk.c:2176: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable’
gtk.c:2178: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gdk_pixbuf_save’
make: *** [gtk.o] Error 1