Debian Games puzzle packages

The 2048 game is a mathematics based puzzle game where you have to slide tiles in a 4x4 board in any of the four possible directions. Touching tiles with the same value are then merged into tiles with the added value of the merged ones. You start with a couple of 2-valued tiles and new tiles appear randomly after sliding. The target of the game is to reach a tile with a value of 2048 before the board is full.

2048 puzzle is mathematics based puzzle game where you have to slide tiles on a grid to combine them and create a tile with the number 2048. You have to merge the similar number tiles (2n) by moving the arrow keys in four different directions. When two tiles with the same number touch, they will merge into one.

The Ace of Penguins is a set of solitaire games inspired by the ones available for MS Windows, but with a number of enhancements.

The package consists of the games Canfield, Freecell, Golf, Mastermind, Merlin, Minesweeper, Pegged, Solitaire, Spider, Taipei (with a level editor), and Thornq.

NOTE: If you experience problems with the F1 help key, please make sure you have package xfonts-100dpi installed.

Due an awful mutation, some amoeba's species have started to multiply until they take the world if you can't stop them. Fortunately the mutation made then too unstable and lining up four or more will make them disappear.

Follow Kim or Tom through 6 levels in their quest to prevent the cute multiplying amoebas to take the world and become the new Amoeba Master. Watch out for the cute but amoeba's controlled creatures that will try to put and end to your quest.

Amoebax is designed with levels for everyone, from children to adults. With the training mode everybody will quickly become a master and the tournament mode will let you have a good time with your friends. There is also catchy music, funny sound effects, and beautiful screens that sure appeal to everyone in the family.

Atom-4 is a two-player color manipulation game played with colored spherical pieces on a board divided into equilateral triangles. The player who first makes a row of 4 pieces of the right color wins. However, the players do not directly play pieces of the winning color; they must construct their winning pieces via color changes that happen to neighbouring pieces whenever a new piece is placed on the board.

Atom-4 supports both a curses-based text interface and an X11 interface.

Atomix is an educational game designed for GNOME in which one has to build molecules, ranging from simple inorganic ones to some extremely complex organic ones, out of separate atoms.

The first levels can be rather easy, but added complexity always comes with the next level, so that several minutes (or much longer than that) can be spent on each single level.

auralquiz is a music quiz game that scans a users selected folder of music and creates a quiz using the tags from the audio files. A sample of a random song is played and the player must answer a question about the sample from either multiple choice buttons or for hardcore difficulty, type in the correct answer. Up to 8 players can play in a turn based mode with scoring based on points, with more points given by answering the question faster.

Berusky is a free logic game based on an ancient puzzle named Sokoban. An old idea of moving boxes in a maze has been expanded with new logic items such as explosives, stones, special gates and so on. In addition, up to five bugs can cooperate and be controlled by the player. In order to leave each level (there's about 120 levels in the game) it is necessary to own five keys and also to have a free way to the exit.

The game based on Berusky that is also available for Debian, though this is the enhanced 3D version. Berusky II is a game that challenges your visual/spatial thinking and the ability to find a way to resolve a logic task.

The entire game takes place in a 3D environment while you slip into the role of different bugs and lead them out of a maze. In addition to arbitrary turning and level zooming all logical plots happen in space.

In comparison to the first part, new logical elements, a simple linear story accompanied by comic series, various 3D environments, water surfaces and others have been added.

Between is a pixelated art game for two players by Jason Rohrer.

You know exactly what you need to do -- you can see it shimmering right there in front of you. You can see it while dreaming, too, and the difference has become subtle. Dreams wake into dreams, and people blend in and out: real characters and dream characters, all woven into the same script. Finally, they fade completely, and you're alone in the expanse with the construction. With time, you feel something growing, a pinhole that eventually yawns into a deep ravine of longing. The construction languishes, though the expanse seems indifferent.

One night, in a dream, they appear: things that you clearly could not have conjured on your own. Not snowflakes. Not the self-similar forms of leaves. Not distant planets' erosion networks as viewed through telescopes. Not those things that are beautifully external but lack the signatures of consciousness. These things that appear are ugly and non-procedural: indecipherable transmissions bubbling up through static, faded messages floating in bottles, and charcoal handprints on cave walls. Evidence has reached you through time of unknown duration and distance of unknown magnitude, but stale evidence is still evidence.

Somewhere, across whatever barriers stand between, is an "other".

Biniax-2 is an original and entertaining game. It only takes a minute to learn and gives you hours and hours of game play. There are three game modes (two single-player and one multi-player), a hall of fame, dynamic music and a nice cartoon look.

There's a black box. You can shoot in and watch, where the shot leaves the box. In the box, crystals are reflecting the shots. You have to guess where the crystals are hidden, by watching your shots.

Block Attack is a puzzle/blockfall game inspired by Nintendo's Tetris Attack for the Super Nintendo. The game is pretty action packed for a puzzle game :-)

Features:

• Based on the classic "Tetris Attack" for the SNES
• 5 single player modes: Endless, Time Trial, Puzzle Mode, Stage Clear and Vs. Mode
• 2 two player options: Time Trial and Vs. Mode
• Puzzle mode has 20+ puzzles
• Players can use a custom key setup
• Handicap in multiplayer
• Highscores are saved
• Joypad support
• Music and sound effects
• Animations
• Select puzzle file from a list in the game

System requirements:

• Screen resolution: 1024x768 (cannot be changed, but it can run in a window)
• Keyboard
• Mouse (optional)
• Processor: Decent (tested on 733 MHz)
• Memory: at least 64 MB

Blocks of the Undead is a puzzle game. You have to remove all the blocks on the field by swapping these around.

Brain Party is a fun, free puzzle game for all the family that's made up of 36 minigames designed to push your brain to its limits by testing memory, logic, mathematics, reaction time and more! Brain Party is split into two modes: test mode gives you five minigames in a row and adds up your brain weight to see how smart you are, and practise mode lets you play your favourite minigames as often as you want. If you do well enough, there are six extra minigames that can be unlocked as well as a new game mode designed to keep you playing and enjoying your favourite games even longer.

This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.

It includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar, caesar, canfield, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, pom, primes, quiz, robots, sail, snake, tetris, trek, worm, wtf, wump

CavePacker is a sokoban game. It is a puzzle game where you have to move the packages onto their targets without getting stuck. The lesser steps you made for solving a level, the better. You may only push but not pull packages.

Chroma is an abstract puzzle game. A variety of colourful shapes are arranged in a series of increasingly complex patterns, forming fiendish traps that must be disarmed and mysterious puzzles that must be manipulated in order to give up their subtle secrets. Initially so straightforward that anyone can pick it up and begin to play, yet gradually becoming difficult enough to tax even the brightest of minds. Have you got what it takes to solve Chroma?

A terminal-based version of this game is available in the 'chroma-curses' package.

chro.mono is a puzzle game originally developed in 2013 for mobile devices. The goal of the game is to touch half-colored spheres with full-colored spheres in such a way that all spheres are filledwith a single color each. Later on in the game, additional limitations and variations on the game mechanics plus time limits keep the gameplay interesting.

The board consists of several scrambled words that are joined together. You can choose the length of the words, the amount of words, and the pattern that the words are arranged in. The game provides a hint option for times when you are stuck.

This puzzle is a remake of old DOS game Sherlock which was inspired by Albert Einstein's puzzle. The game goal is to open all cards in square of 6x6 cards. For this, a number of hints describing relations between card positions are given. Use them to find the correct layout.

Enigma is a puzzle game similar to Oxyd on the Atari ST or Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga and good old Marble Madness. It also has Sokoban levels, and some interesting twists on the original sokoban concept.

In Enigma, your objective is to locate and uncover matching pairs of Oxyd stones. Simple as it sounds, this task is made more difficult by the fact that Oxyd stones tend to be hidden, inaccessible or protected by unexpected traps. Overcoming these obstacles often requires a lot of dexterity and wit (and can be quite addictive).

This package contains the game engine.

The classic four in a row game. Two players can play on the same device, or it can be played against an AI.

It is similar to kfourinline but optimised for mobile devices with touch screens and slower CPUs.

Fish Fillets is strictly a puzzle game. The goal in every of the seventy levels is always the same: find a safe way out. The fish utter witty remarks about their surroundings, the various inhabitants of their underwater realm quarrel among themselves or comment on the efforts of your fish. The whole game is accompanied by quiet, comforting music.

This package contains the example games that accompany FLTK. Specifically, it contains the following two programs:

• flblocks: clear groups of adjacent blocks before they fill the screen;
• flcheckers: classic board game, also known as draughts;
• flsudoku: Sudoku puzzle (place numbers in a grid).

The Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) is a cross-platform graphical user interface toolkit originally based on libForms.

FreeAlchemist is a figure block game written in Python where you have to connect blocks.

The three or more blocks connected with the same shape will be replaced by a block with a different shape.

Freesweep is an implementation of the popular minesweeper game, where one tries to find all the mines without igniting any, based on hints given by the computer. Unlike most implementations of this game, Freesweep works in any visual text display - in Linux console, in an xterm, and in most text-based terminals currently in use.

Send balls through an invisible grid of mirrors (and other interesting widgets) and observe where they end up. Then, try to recreate the same grid from the results you just obtained.

The Tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle game where the player has to arrange a set of figures with 7 polygonal pieces. Peces allows playing 40 different modalities of tangrams and it includes more than 31,000 figures to solve. Also, it allows creating new figures and competitions. glpeces is especially designed to use in education.

Multiplication Puzzle is a simple GTK 4 game that emulates the multiplication game found in Emacs. Basically, a multiplication problem is shown with all digits replaced by letters. Your job is to guess which letter represents which number.

This is a solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg.

You start with five levels of tiles which are stacked so some are covered up by the tiles on top. The object of Mahjongg is to remove all the tiles from the game, by finding matching pairs which look alike.

GNU Robbo is very addictive logic game. You must help a little robot to get out of an unfriendly planet, collecting parts of an emergency capsule.

Originally written for Atari XE/XL by Janusz Pelc from "LK. Avalon".

gPlanarity is a puzzle game with the goal to untangle planar graphs for fun and prizes. If you tend to get addicted to cute little math puzzles, this one is a doozy.

gPlanarity is a super-clone of the flash Planarity game written by John Tantalo. The original Planarity ran well in IE and Firefox on other platforms, but was slow and liked to lock up or abort under Linux browsers.

gPlanarity implements gameplay identical to the original Planarity but adds some UI and game extras around the basic game such as multiple board generation algorithms, puzzle boards, complete backing state, group select/drag and so on.

This is a curses-based clone of the DOS free-ware game Greed. The goal of this game is to try to eat as much as possible of the board before munching yourself into a corner.

The purpose of this game is to put balls in pockets of the same color by manipulating a maze of tubes.

The Tangram is a Chinese puzzle where the player has to arrange a set of pieces to match a given shape. All the pieces must be used and should not be laid on top of one another. The pieces are five triangles, a square and a parallelogram. gtans contains more than 380 figures to play with. It uses the mouse to control pieces. gtans is highly customizable using the interface.

The goal of this game is to make the highest score by matching a number of balls of the same color in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line. This is a clone of well-known DOS game "Lines".

Gweled is a GNOME version of a popular PalmOS/Windows/Java game called "Bejeweled" or "Diamond Mine". The aim of the game is to make alignment of 3 or more gems, both vertically or horizontally by swapping adjacent gems. The game ends when there are no possible moves left.

Hex-a-hop is a great puzzle game in which a girl has to break all the green tiles in an hexagonal map and step onto a safe tile without getting trapped. As you progress through the game, more types of tiles are introduced which make things more difficult and interesting as you progress through the many levels. You can use the infinite undo feature to retrace your steps if you make a mistake. You can take as long as you like to complete each level.

Hexalate is a color matching game. The goal of the game is to rotate and position the circles so that each touching line matches in color. You rotate circles by right clicking, and you move circles by dragging them. The game stores the positions and rotations of the circles across runs.

Hitori puzzles give you a grid filled with numbers. The goal is to remove numbers such that no row or column contains duplicates.

This implementation has undo/redo support, can give hints, and generates puzzles up to 10x10 cells large.

Puzzle game where the goal is to break all the target pieces in each level and do this before the time runs out.

Move game pieces using mouse into matches of 3 or more in a straight line horizontally or vertically.

jigzo (formerly glpuzzle) is a jigsaw puzzle game. Choose from 12 puzzles of increasing difficult. The difficulty ranges from 4 to 25 puzzle pieces. This game requires a OpenGl hardware acceleration.

A game of skill and reflexes, non violent, suitable for all ages. The idea is to move the ball around the map, without falling, without running out of time, and getting the prizes, in order to reach the exit. The main feature of the game is the built-in map editor, so anybody can make their own maps.

Puzzle where all lights have to be switched off.

This is an action-puzzle game inspired by Lemmings (DMA Design, 1991), with singleplayer puzzles, networked multiplayer, and a level editor. Lix is written in the D programming language, uses Allegro 5 for graphics, sound, and input, and uses enet for networking.

The goal of this game is to create a more or less complex figure out of single marbles within a time limit to reach the next level. Sounds easy? Well, there is a problem: If a marble starts to move, it will not stop until it hits a wall or another marble.

MiceAmaze is a video game that features a maze with mice and snakes. The goal is to bring the most mice to your house by placing arrows on the maze floor. But beware the snakes that want to eat them!

A game like "Deflektor" (C 64) or "Mindbender" (Amiga). The goal is to work out how to get around obstacles to shoot energy containers with your beam, enabling the path to the next level to be opened. Included are many levels known from the games "Deflektor" and "Mindbender".

Some features:

   - stereo sound effects and music
   - music module support for SDL version (Unix/Win32)
   - fullscreen support for SDL version (Unix/Win32)
   - complete source code included under GNU GPL

Mokomaze is the opensource implementation of the classic game where you control a steel ball by tilting a wooden labyrinth.

This package requires acceleration sensors and is targeted for the Openmoko FreeRunner smartphone.

Monsterz is similar to the Bejeweled, Zookeeper or Zooo games. The goal is to swap adjacent tiles to create alignments, causing chain reactions to earn more points.

Numpty Physics is a drawing puzzle game in the spirit (and style?) of Crayon Physics using the same excellent Box2D engine. It melds cute schoolbook-style graphics with a kind of realistic physics engine.

It includes a built-in editor so that you may build (and submit) your own levels.

A word game intended for touch screens.

Players must drag their finger (or mouse) over random letters in a 4x4 grid to compose as many words as they can, until the time runs out.

Pathogen Warrior is a puzzle game about matching 3D model structures with a 2D hexagon map. It was one of the entrants to the 4th Ludum Dare 48-hour game development competition. The theme of the competition was "Infection". In Pathogen Warrior, the player's task is to match rotating 3D pathogen structures with a 2D model using a hexagon map. The time to accomplish the task is limited, and after successfully completing one pathogen, the player is advanced to next level, which has a more challenging pathogen.

Pathological is an enriched clone of the game "Logical" by Rainbow Arts. To solve a level, fill each wheel with four marbles of matching color. Various board elements such as teleporters, switches, filters, etc., make the game interesting and challenging. New levels can be created using your favorite text editor.

Phlipple is a unique puzzle game. The goal of every level is to reduce a 3D shape to a single square. Elimination of squares is done by flipping edges around just like in a cardboard box. It starts off relatively easy to teach the basics just to later on serve hours of brain tickling fun. It's a great way to train memory as well as orientation in 3D.

If you know the old arcade-game "Pipe Dreams", you'll instantly recognize this. The goal is to connect different pipe segments to let the water flow from the inlet and through as many pipes as possible, until it finally reaches the outlet. This requires an even combination of speed, skill and foresight.

This is a puzzle game in which components need to be combined into a single circuit: connect all computers to a network server, bring water to the taps and so on.

The game comes with different themes and support user-provided ones through PNG files.

Primrose is a puzzle game by Jason Rohrer and a departure from his previous games.

Primrose is an exploration into deep gameplay in single-player games. It is a tile clearing and placement game with chain reactions and without gravity or timing elements. The audio is limited to minimal but dynamic sound effects that change with game events and progress. It was designed as a casual but engaging and intelligent game for mobile phones.

The player places pairs of coloured tiles on a 7x7 grid. Tiles are cleared by surrounding one colour group with another colour group, scoring points. The cleared tiles change the colour of the surrounding colour group, allowing for chain reactions that give more points. More colours are added as more tiles have been placed on the grid and eventually the game will end when the grid fills up.

Primrose features a networked high score board with instant replay of the high scores, a comprehensive tutorial with animated examples, a colourblind mode, glowing, pulsating, retro graphics and synth-inspired sound effects.

This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.

puzzle-jigsaw is a tile puzzle that requires the assembly of often oddly shaped interlocking and mosaiced pieces.

Pybik is a 3D puzzle game about the cube invented by Ernő Rubik.

• Various 3D puzzles, such as cubes, towers, prisms, tetrahedra, octahedra, dodecahedra and many more
• Solvers for some puzzles
• Pretty patterns
• Editor for move sequences
• Custom colors and images on the surface of the puzzles

Qxw is a program to help you create and publish crosswords, from the simplest blocked grid to sophisticated thematic puzzles. It can make rectangular-, hexagonal- or circular-format grids with blocks, bars or both. It has an automatic grid-filling facility that can handle a wide range of answer treatments and you can even add your own answer treatment methods. Grids can be filled using letters, digits, or a mixture of both; non-Roman and custom alphabets are also supported. Qxw can produce output in a range of formats ready for publication.

Qxw also has a non-interactive mode that can solve a wide range of word-based constraint satisfaction problems and can help automate the exploration of grid designs.

Qxw is written in C and has a GUI based on GTK+.

Raincat is a 2d puzzle game similar to the Incredible Machine and Lemmings series. Your goal is simple: guide the cat safe and dry to the end of each level. Just mind the rain, puddles, and loose fire hydrants in your path!

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection contains a number of popular puzzle games for one player. It currently consists of these games:

• Black Box, ball-finding puzzle
• Bridges, bridge-placing puzzle
• Cube, rolling cube puzzle
• Dominosa, domino tiling puzzle
• Fifteen, sliding block puzzle
• Filling, polyomino puzzle
• Flip, tile inversion puzzle
• Flood, flood-filling puzzle
• Galaxies, symmetric polyomino puzzle
• Guess, combination-guessing puzzle
• Inertia, gem-collecting puzzle
• Keen, arithmetic Latin square puzzle
• Light Up, light-bulb placing puzzle
• Loopy, loop-drawing puzzle
• Magnets, magnet-placing puzzle
• Map, map-colouring puzzle
• Mines, mine-finding puzzle
• Mosaic, grid-filling puzzle
• Net, network jigsaw puzzle
• Netslide, toroidal sliding network puzzle
• Palisade, grid-division puzzle
• Pattern, pattern puzzle
• Pearl, loop-drawing puzzle
• Pegs, peg solitaire puzzle
• Range, visible-distance puzzle
• Rectangles, rectangles puzzle
• Same Game, block-clearing puzzle
• Signpost, square-connecting puzzle
• Singles, number-removing puzzle
• Sixteen, toroidal sliding block puzzle
• Slant, maze-drawing puzzle
• Solo, number placement puzzle
• Tents, tent-placing puzzle
• Towers, tower-placing Latin square puzzle
• Tracks, path-finding railway track puzzle
• Twiddle, rotational sliding block puzzle
• Undead, monster-placing puzzle
• Unequal, Latin square puzzle
• Unruly, black and white grid puzzle
• Untangle, planar graph layout puzzle

This sudoku puzzle generator/solver features:

• character based (curses) interface;
• cross-platform (Minix, Unix, Windows) with full source code (ANSI C);
• generates hints upon request;
• classification of board difficulty (very easy, easy, medium, hard or fiendish);
• generation of new boards;
• easy entry of boards published in newspapers, Internet, ...;
• multiple output formats (text, csv, HTML, PostScript).