Open Source Linux Puzzle Games

Brain Workshop is a Python implementation of the Dual N-Back mental exercise. This exercise is the only mental activity that has been scientifically shown to improve your short-term memory (working memory) and fluid intelligence.

PySolFC (PySol Fan Club edition) is an extended version of PySol (a solitaire card games collection).

Sudoku generator/solver/analyzer written in Java (English and German). Lots of human style techniques (singles, subsets, LCs, fish, wings, uniqueness, coloring, chains, ALS), powerful analyzer (manage multiple solutions for one sudoku). Includes Learning and training modes and a booklet printer.

<b>The project is continued at https://github.com/Scrabble3D. Find the latest program version under Binaries.</b> Scrabble3D is a highly customizable Scrabble game that not only supports Classic Scrabble and Superscrabble but also 3D games and own boards. You can play local against the computer or connect to a game server to find other players.

BlockOut II is an adaptation of the original Blockout DOS game edited by California Dreams(1989). It uses OpenGL. BL II has the same features than the original game. Score calculation is also nearly similar to the original.

A library and attached graphical and console based application to solve and design interlocking burr-type puzzles based on cubes, spheres, triangles and other units.

JSoko is a Java program for playing the Sokoban game. It features path finding, auto push, auto solving, undo/redo, deadlock detection, and more.

Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers, games, and more. This project is about a futuristic style of human-computer interaction, where the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in. It features a portable C++ toolkit API for developing such ZUIs, and it features the Eagle Mode application, which provides a virtual cosmos with plugin applications. The most important one is the professional file manager with its rich, scriptable command set. It integrates file viewers for most of the common file types, as well as an audio and video player. Furthermore, the virtual cosmos contains a chess game, a netwalk game, a 3D minesweeper game, a multi-function clock, a stock watchlist, some fractals, and a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch.

Open Source implementation of the wonderful puzzle game Fish Fillets from ALTAR interactive.

Zaz ain't Z*** is a puzzle game where the player has to arrange balls in triplets.

Hex-a-hop is a puzzle game in which a girl has to destroy green hexagons by stepping on them.

Egoboo is a working cool 3D dungeon crawling game in the spirit of nethack. Currently it is supported by Windows, Linux and Mac.

Goal of this project is a freeware game similar to the PSX game "Kula World" / "Roll Away". It is designed platform independent, written in C++ and using the following libraries: OpenGL, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), libjpeg, LUA, GLSL-Shader.

Build custom robots in your browser with IncrediBots! Design your robot by drawing shapes, joints, motors, and more! Then, pilot your machine using your own custom key bindings. NOTE: OPEN SOURCE VERSION CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM "FILES" TAB!

S.C.O.U.R.G.E. is a roguelike game with a 3D user interface. The game allows a group of four characters to search for treasure, kill enemies, gain levels, etc. The code is C++ using SDL, OpenGL and freetype. The game uses Squirrel for scripting.

Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock and Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones. Simple? Yes. Easy? Certainly not! Hidden traps, vast mazes, laser beams, and, most of all, countless hairy puzzles usually block your direct way to the Oxyd stones ...

INSTEAD was designed to interpret the games that are the mix of visual novels, text quests and classical 90'ss quests.

It is a sandbox game, based on physics. The game aim is to make contact red object with green object. You can use various objects, solid, wire (rope), and bendable objects. Gravitation will help you.

A scrolling, platform-jumping, key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, vaguely in the style of similar games for the Commodore+4. The game is intended to show young people (I'm writing it for my son's birthday) all the cool games they missed.

An entertaining Sokoban game with nice 3D graphics available for Windows, Linux & Mac. Features different skins & workers, several level sets, resume & replay, improved mouse/keyboard control, audio etc.

kiki the nanobot is a 3-D puzzle game. It is basically a mixture of the games Sokoban and Kula-World.

gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained. gbrainy's project page: http://live.gnome.org/gbrainy There is also an on-line version: http://www.gbrainy.com

Development moved to https://github.com/mrichards42/xword XWord is a crossword puzzle program designed to be highly configurable. It supports a variety of formats: puz, xpf, jpz, and ipuz. Includes support for rebus puzzles, "trick" puzzles, diagramless puzzles, scrambled/locked puzzles, and a timer.

Dice endgames is a gambling and logical game with perfect information, at the same time being a variety of both variants of chess and checkers-like games, and dices. In this game, the arrangement of chess pieces depends on the values on the sides of the dice. It was conceived as teaching and training how to solve endgames, problems or random arrangements, such as Fischer's chess, in various board games of logic.