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GNOME Klotski – sliding block puzzle game

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GNOME Klotski is a set of block sliding puzzles. It’s a clone of the Klotski game.

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Palapeli – single-player jigsaw puzzle game

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Palapeli is a single-player jigsaw puzzle game. Unlike other games in that genre, you are not limited to aligning pieces on imaginary grids.

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Game Tools

Hexkudo – GNOME number-placement logic game

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Hexkudo is a GNOME number-placement logic game. Each puzzle gives you a grid of hexagons and a few numbers as anchor.

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Ball2Box – casual ball game

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ball2Box is a causal ball game. Swipe to shoot the ball into the box in over 100 levels with only one finger.

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Anagramarama – make words from a jumble of letters

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Anagramarama is a simple wordgame. Guess all the different permutations of a scrambled word which form another word within the time limit.

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Glerm – puzzle game

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Glerm is a puzzle game. You’re under attack by encroaching shapes. Zap shapes of the same color to make them vanish

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Kubrick – 3D Game based on Rubik’s Cube

September 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Kubrick is a game based on the Rubik’s Cube puzzle. The cube sizes range from 2x2x2 up to 6x6x6, or you can play with irregular “bricks”.

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Hunt – word search game

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Hunt is an easy word search game. You can play with or without a timer, or a blitz mode,

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Sudoku

Sudoku – solve Sudoku puzzles

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Sudoku is a modern Sudoku app focused on delivering a clean, distraction-free experience. Designed with simplicity and comfort in mind.

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Tiny Crate – crate-chucking action puzzler

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tiny Crate is a cute little precision platformer with puzzle elements! It’s released into the public domain.

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Puzzle Games

EmojiClu – graphical implementation of the Zebra Puzzle

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

EmojiClu is a graphical implementation of the Zebra Puzzle, built with GTK. It’s a logical deduction style puzzle, similar to Suduko.

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muttum – guess a word in few attempts

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

With muttum, pick a dictionary and try to find the random word.

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Crosswords

GNOME Crosswords – crossword player and editor

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GNOME Crosswords is a crossword player and editor.

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Warble

Wordle CLI – play Wordle in your command line

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Wordle CLI is a command-line program that lets you play the famous Wordle puzzle game.

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Warble

Words! – word puzzle game

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Words! is a word puzzle game where you have 6 tries to guess a hidden word. A simple and addictive game.

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Puzzle Games

Zaz – multi-platform arcade action puzzle game

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Zaz is a multi-platform arcade action puzzle game where the objective is to get rid of all incoming balls by rearranging their order.

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Puzzle Games

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

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

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

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Puzzle Games

Pingus – free Lemmings clone

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Pingus is a free clone of the popular Lemmings game. Your goal is to guide a horde of penguins through a world full of obstacles and penguin traps to safety

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Puzzle Games

Neverball – tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out.

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

In the grand tradition of Marble Madness and Super Monkey Ball, Neverball has you guide a rolling ball through dangerous territory.

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Puzzle Games

Numpty Physics – open source game in the spirit of Crayon Physics

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Numpty Physics is a drawing puzzle game in the spirit of Crayon Physics. Numpty Physics uses the Box2D engine.

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