GNOME Games Collection

GNOME Games
Developer(s)	The GNOME Project
Initial release	December 20, 1998; 25 years ago
Written in	Vala, C, C++, Scheme, JavaScript, Python
Operating system	Linux, Unix-like, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Platform	GTK+
Type	Video games
License	GNU General Public License
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Games

GNOME Games is a collection of about 15 puzzle video games, that is part of the standard free and open-source GNOME desktop environment.^[2]^[3] They have the look and feel of the GNOME desktop, but can be used without it.

The GNOME Games collection is in the process of being modernized.^[4]

It currently includes the following games:

2048 – a clone of a popular game by the same name written in Vala;^[5]^[6] gnome-2048 is somehow missing in the Debian repositories
AisleRiot (or "sol") – a suite of many Solitaire card games:
- Agnes Athena Auld Lang Syne Aunt Mary Backbone Bakers Dozen Bakers Game Beleaguered Castle Block Ten Bristol Camelot Canfield Carpet Chessboard Clock Cover Cruel Diamond Mine Doublets Eagle Wing Easthaven Eight Off Elevator Escalator First Law Fortress Fortunes Fourteen Freecell Gaps Gay Gordons Glenwood Golf Gypsy Helsinki Hopscotch Isabel Jamestown Jumbo Kansas King Albert Kings Audience Klondike Labyrinth Lady Jane Maze Monte Carlo Napoleon's Tomb Neighbor Odessa Osmosis Peek Pileon Plait Poker Quatorze Royal East Saratoga Scorpion Scuffle Seahaven Sir Tommy Spiderette Spider Spider Three Decks Straight Up Streets And Alleys Ten Across Thieves Thirteen Thumb And Pouch Treize Triple Peaks Union Square Valentine Westhaven Whitehead Will O The Wisp Yield Yukon Zebra (see also: Category:Solitaire card games)
Chess – a graphical front-end written in Vala to be used with a chess engine
Five or more – a clone of Color Lines
Four-in-a-row – a clone of Connect Four
Hitori – an implementation of Hitori
Iagno – a clone of Reversi
Klotski – a sliding block puzzle game, see Klotski
Lightsoff – a brainteazer
Quadrapassel – a clone of Tetris (previously called Gnometris prior to October 2009).
Mahjongg – an implementation of the traditional Chinese game for a single player, see Mahjong solitaire
Mines – an implementation of Minesweeper computer game.
Nibble – a remake of Nibbles.
Robots – a clone of the turn-based game Robots
Sudoku – an implementation of Sudoku with a good generator.
Tetravex – an implementation of the edge-matching puzzle game Tetravex
Swell Foop – a clone of the SameGame (previously called Same GNOME).
Tali – an implementation of a dice game similar to Yahtzee/Kismet

The following games have been removed but previously included:

Blackjack – a computerized implementation of the gambling game Blackjack was removed in October 2009.
gbrainy – a brain teaser software is written in C# using Mono will be ported to Vala and GTK+
GNOME Mastermind – packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-mastermind a software implementation of Mastermind
GNOME Pipes – a Pipe Mania-clone [1]
GNOME Untangle – an implementation of Planarity [2]