looking for a link to an old online set of games

[maddog]

I've seen it posted a couple of places over the years, but cannot now remember the name and google has not been my friend in trying to find it again ... Does anyone remember a downloadable set of small games, like 12-15 single-player games, called "somebody-or-other's favorite games"? It included a 4-color map game, a finish-the-electric-circuit game, some block-moving games I couldn't figure out, a crossed-line net-pulling game, and so on? I feel that I can't remember ...

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[BrotherMan]

I know exactly what you're talking about. I may have something somewhere but it'll take me time to find it.

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by maddog

I've seen it posted a couple of places over the years, but cannot now remember the name and google has not been my friend in trying to find it again ... Does anyone remember a downloadable set of small games, like 12-15 single-player games, called "somebody-or-other's favorite games"? It included a 4-color map game, a finish-the-electric-circuit game, some block-moving games I couldn't figure out, a crossed-line net-pulling game, and so on? I feel that I can't remember ...

#2894

Maybe Simon Tatham?

[Ymir's blood]

Dear lisarea, one of my combat boot socks went missing from the drawer, leaving me with an odd number of them. Can you tell me where the missing sock is?

[BrotherMan]

BORT, POTATO SAVIOR AND FINDER OF SOME THINGS!

[Ymir's blood]

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

Dear lisarea, one of my combat boot socks went missing from the drawer, leaving me with an odd number of them. Can you tell me where the missing sock is?

It's in my sock drawer. Sorry about that.

[BrotherMan]

In my defense I was baking cookies. What was pea doing? HIDING SOCKS THAT'S WHAT.

[lisarea]

I was hiding socks AND making brownies.

(I remembered that game set, so I just searched Synaptic for puzzle games and refound it is all.)

[maddog]

Aha! That's IT! I was almost going to say "Simon somebody," but whenever I was searching for Simon on Google, all I got was "Simon Says"



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[ceptimus]

A new type of Loopy puzzle has been recently added - the 4x5 Compass-Dodecagonal - Hard

It's no harder than the other dodecagonal loopy puzzles in my experience - usually possible to solve first try and with no, or very little, guessing-and-backtracking.

[LarsMac]

Now THAT was a thread worth digging out of the Archives.

[ceptimus]

How I tackled a Tracks 15x15 tricky.

[Basset Hound]

Originally Posted by lisarea

It's in my sock drawer. Sorry about that.

I'm surprised it wasn't in Yakima, Washington. Missing socks usually end up there.

[ceptimus]

I've started using the custom setting on Loopy, to make larger-than-standard versions of the non-square puzzles.

Here's an example: Loopy, from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

Not specially difficult, but they take longer to complete because there's a bigger area to fill in.

[JoeP]

I've been doing extra-large versions for ages. At least since I got a 4K monitor last year.

[ceptimus]

Originally Posted by ceptimus

A new type of Loopy puzzle has been recently added - the 4x5 Compass-Dodecagonal - Hard

It's no harder than the other dodecagonal loopy puzzles in my experience - usually possible to solve first try and with no, or very little, guessing-and-backtracking.

...and another new type of Loopy has been added in April 2023.

This time, it's the 'hats' layout. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/loopy.html

[ceptimus]

... and yet another new type of Loopy! This time 'spectres'. Loopy (spectres), from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

[Ensign Steve]

That shape looks an awful lot like the new tile.

A New Tile in Newtyle - Numberphile - YouTube

Mathematicians Find New 13-Sided Shape Called 'the Hat'

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Ensign Steve]

Since June I have been literally crack-addict levels of addicted to Loopy, no exaggeration. I tried a few different shapes, but I pretty quickly landed on playing hexagonal exclusively.

I can't send a right-click on the phone to eliminate a line, which was annoying at first, but it just took more practice to play with that level of challenge. So now when I'm on the computer and can right-click, I play the oppose way, where I only eliminate lines, and I wait until the loop is done to mark any of them. That's even harder!

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

I can't send a right-click on the phone to eliminate a line, which was annoying at first, but

Which version are you playing on the phone? Mine (Simon Tatham's Puzzles by "Chris Boyle" on Android) allows long-press to clear a line, and a toggle to swap long and short press actions.

Or do you specifically want a physical right mouse button?

[Ensign Steve]

I'm playing this version: Loopy, from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection on safari on the iphone. Supposedly a long-touch is equivalent to a right click, but I can't get it to work with my setup. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[JoeP]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is all I can say too.

Maybe look for an actual app.