Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

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risk · #1 Post by **risk** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:38 pm

Can't vow for their fun-factor, but here is a collection of portable games. Cross-platform too.

Download from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ and run.

Fluffy · #2 Post by **Fluffy** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:28 pm

Great find! The few of these puzzles I've tested so far are portable, Andrew and I are currently discussing how best to handle these. Thanks a lot!

Fluffy · #3 Post by **Fluffy** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:34 am

All of the puzzles have been posted to the database, Thanks! (If you ever do this again I'll beat the snot out of you... Just kidding

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#4 Post by **Andrew Lee** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:35 am

Jesus! Fluffy. I can't believe you posted all of them in one go and survived!

I would have died of repetitive stress injury by the time I hit the sixth or seventh!

Teddybear1974NL · #5 Post by **Teddybear1974NL** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:00 am

This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK), on Windows, and on Mac OS X.

The page in question: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

My personal favorites are
Solo (Sodoku), Map, Mines and SameGame

sproaticus · #6 Post by **sproaticus** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:17 am

These are mostly in there, though there are 4 new ones since they were added, plus they all have relevant application icons.

jdpenfold · #7 Post by **jdpenfold** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:36 am

I found these puzzles on the web, they have a nice 8start interface.

http://rapidshare.com/files/48892199/Puzzles.zip

JohnW · #8 Post by **JohnW** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:45 am

In essence this is SimonTatham's Portable Puzzle Collection.

It has been discussed in the Forum on at least two threads ...

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http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=557&highlight=puzzles

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http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1767&highlight=puzzles

The implementation that jdpenfold refers to was written with Lupo's PenSuite in mind. As jdpenfold
states, the 8Start Launcher is a nice feature.
If you don't like using Rapidshare the app is available from Lupo's Home Site ...

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http://lupo73.altervista.org/schede/games/portablepuzzles.htm

So thanks jdpenfold for a useful contribution.

Gawran · #9 Post by **Gawran** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:33 am

This is a collection of (27, at the time of this writing) freeware (open source) portable logical puzzles.

This is the best collection of games I have ever seen, and includes Sudoku (it's called Solo), Minesweeper (with no guessing!!), nonograms, and many more great games. Games are randomly generated, all solutions are unique, and you can change size, difficulty, etc. You can save particularly interesting puzzles as a short string of text, for future solving.

Whole collection is portable (every game is just .exe file), stealth (no settings saving), and by using UPX you can get size down to 2.4 MB.

There are versions for Mac OS X, Unix/Linux, and even Palm OS.

Scroll down on http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ and download puzzles.zip, just unzip it where you like.

Enjoy!

Gawran

P.S. The guy that made this is better known as author of Putty.
P.P.S. Sudoku here is much better than popular Sudoku Portable (which generates worse puzzles than those you can find in cheap newspapers).

Gawran · #10 Post by **Gawran** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:43 am

I just find out that some of these games are already on the database, suggested by risk, and with popularity score of 1.
I think that all collection should be put as one entry in database, so people could find it easier.

Gawran

Kranor · #11 Post by **Kranor** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:50 am

Just run a check on these with dependency walker and it seems that most of these are .Net apps. Which we do not include in the database.

Gawran · #12 Post by **Gawran** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:47 am

I'm not very knowledgable at inner workings of windows or .net, but I just checked with dependency walker too, and they doesn't seem to depend on any dll in \WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET directory.

How do you know if app is .net?

And if what you say is true, how come most of these games are already on the database (as I mentioned in my previous reply), in "Puzzles" category?

Gawran

Local · #13 Post by **Local** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:53 pm

As the distributor states that these games all run on unix Mac and all Windows OS I pretty much assume that they aren't dependant on .net.

I can't believe they only have a popularity score of 1 though, they're amazing games =D

Gawran, I don't know if it's worth collecting them all together here, there is already a link to the homepage for anyone who would be interested in collecting them themselves and it seems pretty pointless just to have an entry for "Lots of puzzles"

portackager · #14 Post by **portackager** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:02 pm

Theres some really neat games here.

lococobra · #15 Post by **lococobra** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:51 pm

Pretty epic collection if you ask me...

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