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  • Re: Puzzles 1.00 Released

    From Harriet Bazley@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, October 25, 2025 00:16:58
    On 24 Oct 2025 as I do recall,
    Steve Fryatt wrote:

    After a couple of years' development, I'm pleased to announce the first full release today of Puzzles 1.00 -- just in time for the London Show[1]. A port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection[2], Puzzles is a set of 40 single-player games which run on the desktop.

    Nice! I remember seeing an earlier version of this, but had forgotten
    about it; now we actually have in-game help, which is very helpful...

    My problem with Cube is that (presumably by design) you can only see
    three of the six faces of the cube at any one point, so have to memorise
    the current colour of the other three in addition to planning your
    future colour-changing path, which is a level of logic too far for me!

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    Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

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  • From Harriet Bazley@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, October 25, 2025 00:41:37
    On 25 Oct 2025 as I do recall,
    Harriet Bazley wrote:

    On 24 Oct 2025 as I do recall,
    Steve Fryatt wrote:

    After a couple of years' development, I'm pleased to announce the first full
    release today of Puzzles 1.00 -- just in time for the London Show[1]. A port
    of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection[2], Puzzles is a set of 40 single-player games which run on the desktop.

    Nice! I remember seeing an earlier version of this, but had forgotten
    about it; now we actually have in-game help, which is very helpful...

    Map: it would be nice to have some visual border/other indication as to
    which the 'fixed' coloured regions are (i.e. the ones that are
    pre-coloured at the start of the game and can't be changed by the user),
    since it's frustrating to fiddle around changing things late in the game
    only to find that one of the regions you wanted to swap can't be
    altered! But presumably that's a question for the source
    implementation....

    --
    Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

    Oregano: The ancient Italian art of pizza folding.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)