Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a popular collection of small puzzle computer games developed by Simon Tatham which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK), on Windows, and on Mac OS X. Some are original but most are re-implementations of existing game concepts, such as Nikoli puzzles.
A port on Nintendo DS called Puzzlemaniak is running and includes an online challenge version. It features all the 27 games from the Unix version.
Another port is running for Pocket PC and Palmtop.
Presentation
Each game in the collection runs in a window using 256 colors. They use standard controls but some vary from game to game.
Games
- Black Box
Find the hidden balls in the box by bouncing laser beams off them.
- Bridges
Connect all the islands with a network of bridges. (This game is also known as Hashiwokakero.)
- Cube
Pick up all the blue squares by rolling the cube over them.
- Dominosa
Tile the rectangle with a full set of dominoes.
- Fifteen
Slide the tiles around to arrange them into order.
- Filling
Mark every square with the area of its containing region.
- Flip
Flip groups of squares to light them all up at once.
- Galaxies
Divide the grid into rotationally symmetric regions each centred on a dot.
- Guess
Guess the hidden combination of colours. (A variant of Mastermind.)
- Inertia
Collect all the gems without running into any of the mines.
- Light Up
Place bulbs to light up all the squares.
- Loopy
Draw a single closed loop in accordance with the clues. (This game is also known as Slitherlink.)
- Map
Colour the map so that adjacent regions are never the same colour.
- Mines
Find all the mines without treading on any of them. (An implementation of Minesweeper.)
- Net
Rotate each tile to reassemble the network.
- Netslide
Slide a row at a time to reassemble the network.
- Pattern
Fill in the pattern in the grid, given only the lengths of runs of black squares. (This game is also known as Nonogram.)
- Pegs
Jump pegs over each other to remove all but one.
- Rectangles
Divide the grid into rectangles with areas equal to the numbers. (This game is also known as Shikaku.)
- SameGame
Clear the grid by removing touching groups of the same colour squares.
- Sixteen
Slide a row at a time to arrange the tiles into order.
- Slant
Draw a maze of slanting lines that matches the clues. (This game is also known as Gokigen Naname.)
- Solo
Fill in the grid so that each row, column and square block contains one of every digit. (This game is commonly known as sudoku.)
- Tents
Place a tent next to each tree.
- Twiddle
Rotate the tiles around themselves to arrange them into order.
- Unequal
Complete the Latin square in accordance with the > signs. (This game is also known as Futoshiki.)
- Untangle
Reposition the points so that the lines do not cross. (This game is an implementation of Planarity.)
External links
- Official site
- Puzzlemaniak : Online version for Nintendo DS
- Palm Puzzles port page
- Updated Windows Mobile port
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