Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection – large collection of single-player puzzle games

Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of 39 single-player puzzle games.

Besides the 39 puzzles, there are a few unfinished puzzles lurking in the project’s repository including implementations of Block Puzzle (another puzzle invented by Nikoli), the block-sliding puzzle ‘Klotski’, and the well-known Sokoban barrel pushing game. There’s also a puzzle called Group which is, in fact, complete. It’s a Latin-square puzzle, but played with groups’ Cayley tables. You are given a Cayley table of a group with most elements blank and a few clues, and you must fill it in so as to preserve the group axioms. It’s not included in the puzzle collection because Simon considers it too esoteric and hard. But it’s easy to compile at least.

This is free and open source software.

Website: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles
Support:
Developer: Simon Tatham, Richard Boulton, James Harvey, Mike Pinna, Jonas Kölker, Dariusz Olszewski, Michael Schierl, Lambros Lambrou, Bernd Schmidt, Steffen Bauer, Lennard Sprong, and Rogier Goossens
License: MIT License

The collection is written in C, Java, and JavaScript. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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