Debian Games board packages

There are three boards, stacked vertically; 96 pieces of which most are the traditional chess pieces with just a couple of additions; 26 possible directions in which to move. Provides a challenging enough game to all but the most highly skilled players.

The Ace of Penguins is a set of solitaire games inspired by the ones available for MS Windows, but with a number of enhancements.

The package consists of the games Canfield, Freecell, Golf, Mastermind, Merlin, Minesweeper, Pegged, Solitaire, Spider, Taipei (with a level editor), and Thornq.

NOTE: If you experience problems with the F1 help key, please make sure you have package xfonts-100dpi installed.

Biloba is an abstract strategy board game for 1 to 4 players. At each turn the player moves pawns on an octagonal shaped board (but squared cells) trying to remove opponent's pawns from it.

Biloba includes an AI opponent for single player mode, and supports local or network play for 2 or more (up to 4) players.

Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular "Battle Chess" released by Interplay circa 1988.

This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.

It includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar, caesar, canfield, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, pom, primes, quiz, robots, sail, snake, tetris, trek, worm, wtf, wump

CGoban (Complete Goban) is a computerized board on which you can play the game of Go against another player, view and edit smart-go files, and connect to Go servers on the internet. It can also interface with computer Go programs such as GNU Go that speak the Go modem protocol. Some sort of image converter is needed if you wish to use the utility provided to capture "screen shots" of a CGoban game.

Go is an ancient game originated from China, with a definite history of over 3000 years, although there are historians who say that the game was invented more than 4000 years ago. The Chinese call the game Weiqi, other names for Go include Baduk (Korean), Igo (Japanese), and Goe (Taiwanese).

In this game, each player tries to exert more influence on territory than her opponent, using threats of death, capture, or isolation. It is, therefore, a symbolic representation of the relationships between nations. Go is getting increasingly popular around the world, especially in Asian, European and American countries, with many worldwide competitions being held.

The game of Go is played on a board. The Go set is comprised of the board, together with 181 black and 180 white stones. The standard board has 19 lines by 19 lines, but 13x13 and 9x9 boards can also be used. However, the 9x9 and 13x13 boards are usually for beginners; more advanced players would prefer the traditional 19x19 board.

Compared to International Chess and Chinese Chess, Go has far fewer rules. Yet this allowed for all sorts of moves to be played, so Go can be a more intellectually challenging game than the other two types of Chess. Nonetheless, Go is not a difficult game to learn, so have a fun time playing the game with your friends.

(adopted from http://senseis.xmp.net/?WhatIsGo)

This package is based on Peter Norvig's reversi program in the book Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence. Compared to the code in the book, this package employs significant optimizations and includes a CLIM-based graphical user interface.

ColorCode is an advanced MasterMind code-breaking game clone. The program accepts setting the number of slots (from 2 to 5), the number of colors (from 2 to 10) and setting if colors might be repeated in the secret code (doubles allowed or not). The game has 5 built-in levels, from level 1 (beginner: 2 slots and 2 colors, with doubles allowed) to level 5 (hard: 5 slots and 10 colors, with doubles allowed). ColorCode can make guesses in place of the user.

Do'SSi Zo'la is an SDL implementation of the Isola board game, featuring nice animations, which makes it appealing to children.

The goal of the basic Isola game is to block the opponent by destroying the squares which surround him. In each turn, each player must first move to one of the squares adjacent to his current position, and then destroy a square of his choice. The first player who is unable to move loses.

Do'SSi Zo'la provides a number of variations of the standard rules.

El-Ixir is a board game that has apparently been invented by Isoft in 1981, released as a booter floppy. This is a quite faithful remake, like the original using text-mode graphics.

Every turn, players are presented with four random squares they can place a block on. The object of the game is to connect as many blocks to the board's corners as you can, possibly “embracing” areas while doing so.

Fairymax is a program that plays chess and chess variants. It uses the xboard/winboard chess-engine protocol to communicate. Apart from 'regular' chess (also known as the Mad-Queen variant), it can play Capablanca chess, gothic chess, knightmate, cylinder chess, berolina chess, superchess and courier chess.

Filler is a simple game where two players try to capture half of the board. Players take turns selecting colours to capture all adjacent hexes of the same colour.

This package contains the example games that accompany FLTK. Specifically, it contains the following two programs:

• flblocks: clear groups of adjacent blocks before they fill the screen;
• flcheckers: classic board game, also known as draughts;
• flsudoku: Sudoku puzzle (place numbers in a grid).

The Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) is a cross-platform graphical user interface toolkit originally based on libForms.

Amazons is a game played on a 10x10 chess board. Each side has four pieces (amazons) that move like chess queens (in a straight line in any direction). Instead of capturing pieces like in chess, the game is determined based on who moves last.

Each move consists of two parts. First an amazon moves to a new square and then fires an arrow to another square (the arrow is fired in a straight line in any direction from the square the amazon landed on). The square the arrow lands on becomes a permenant block for the rest of the game. No one can move over it, or fire an arrow over it. Every turn an amazon must move and fire an arrow, so every turn there is one less square available on the board. Try and block in your opponent or section off a good chunk of the board for yourself.

Batalla Naval is a networked BattleShip game. It supports multiple players and multiple robots at the same time.

This is a very strong chess engine, finished 4th place at internatonal ChessWar X. It uses the UCI (universal chess interface), for chess engines as communication protocol. This means to play against it, you have to use an UCI capable interface, like knights. Or an xboard adapter like polyglot.

GNU Backgammon is a strong backgammon program (world-class with a bearoff database installed) usable either as an engine by other programs or as a standalone backgammon game. In addition to supporting simple play, it also has extensive analysis features, a tutor mode, adjustable difficulty, and support for exporting annotated games. It can be played either from a GTK+ graphical interface, optionally with a 3D board, or from a simple text console.

Gnuchess is an updated version of the GNU chess playing program. It is now based on the fruit chess engine and uses the UCI chess engine protocol. It has a simple alpha-numeric board display, and is also compatible with frontends like xboard, scid and eboard.

GNU Go is a free program that plays the game of Go. It provides a text-only user interface, have a look at the cgoban or qgo package if you want to play on a graphical board.

Go is an ancient game originated from China, with a definite history of over 3000 years, although there are historians who say that the game was invented more than 4000 years ago. The Chinese call the game Weiqi, other names for Go include Baduk (Korean), Igo (Japanese), and Goe (Taiwanese).

In this game, each player tries to exert more influence on territory than her opponent, using threats of death, capture, or isolation. It is, therefore, a symbolic representation of the relationships between nations. Go is getting increasingly popular around the world, especially in Asian, European and American countries, with many worldwide competitions being held.

The game of Go is played on a board. The Go set is comprised of the board, together with 181 black and 180 white stones. The standard board has 19 lines by 19 lines, but 13x13 and 9x9 boards can also be used. However, the 9x9 and 13x13 boards are usually for beginners; more advanced players would prefer the traditional 19x19 board.

Compared to International Chess and Chinese Chess, Go has far fewer rules. Yet this allowed for all sorts of moves to be played, so Go can be a more intellectually challenging game than the other two types of Chess. Nonetheless, Go is not a difficult game to learn, so have a fun time playing the game with your friends.

(adopted from http://senseis.xmp.net/?WhatIsGo)

Gnuminishogi is a computer player for the MiniShogi variant of shogi (Japanese chess).

Gnuminishogi is a modified version of the gnushogi program. It can be used through xboard, tagua, kaya, or other graphical frontends, but also has a simple alpha-numeric board display.

grhino, or rhino its former name, is an Othello/Reversi game. What distinguish grhino from most other Othello games is that grhino is targeted for experienced Othello players. Strong AI is the main focus. Its AI can be used with quarry.

GtkAtlantic is a game, like Monopoly™. This is a network client that works with the monopd server. You will either have to install monopd or connect to an existing internet server to play the game.

HaChu is an AI engine for many variants of Shogi (japanese chess), and Chess.

It currently plays the following games:

• Sho Shogi, the immediate ancestor of modern Shogi
• Chu Shogi, the most widely played large-board variant (12x12 board), featuring the famous Lion piece
• Mighty Lion (a simple variant of normal chess to more easily get to know the Lion; does not implement castling yet)
• Dai Shogi, a variant on 15x15 board (no GUI support yet)
• Tenjiku Shogi, a 16x16 variant with even more exotic pieces (unfinished, no GUI support yet)
• More classical chess variants:
• Shatranj (does not implement the baring rule yet)
• Makruk (does not implement counting yet)
• Standard Chess (without castling)

Most games (excluding Dai and Tenjiku) can be played through the XBoard GUI (version 4.8 and later).

Simple two-player turn-based strategy game played on an 8x8 grid. Convert the opponent's pieces to your color by bracketing them between your pieces. The game can be played head-to-head on a single screen or by a single player against the computer. Jester allows you to waste valuable time that could otherwise be spent playing Solitaire.

These are a selection of various games that use the Xaw toolkit. They are all from the 80's and 90's and look the part. As a result, they are also very lightweight. There are a bunch of solitaire (patience) variants, mille bournes, cribbage and dominos.

This is a set of programs to play the original Mah-Jong game: one server, one client for a human player and one client for an AI player. Hence the game can be played by 1 to 4 human players.

You should keep in mind that the original Mah-Jong game has nothing to do with the well-known solitaire game. (It merely uses the same set of tiles.)

If you like the game, please consider making a donation to the (upstream) author. Read /usr/share/doc/mah-jong/README.Debian for details.

This is an implementation of the simple, but fun board game known as Mancala. Contains both a user-unfriendly character-based interface, and a nice, user-friendly X11-interface. Be warned: If you just bother to read the rules, you may get hooked on this! For more information about the Mancala family of games, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala

monopd is a dedicated game server daemon for playing Monopoly-like board games. Clients such as gtkAtlantic connect to the server, which manages the game. Note that you do not need to install this server unless you want to use one of the clients offline, or play custom game types.

Currently supported board games are Monopoly(R) and Atlantic, a variation on Monopoly(R).

Morris is an implementation of the board game "Nine Men's Morris". Sometimes simply called Mills, Morris, Merrills, or Mühle in German. This implementation supports not only the standard game, but also several rule-variants and different boards. The game supports a strong computer player which learns from past games played.

NetToe is a console-based version of the classic game "Tic Tac Toe". It's playable against computer AI, a player on the same machine or with another player over the network. It uses a simple 3x3 board.

Open Yahtzee is a version of the classic dice game Yahtzee. Also known as Knubbel or Pasch.

Open Yahtzee is built to be a full-featured Yahtzee implementation, with a user-friendly interface including animated dice rolls.

For other implementations see the gtali game in the gnome-games package.

Peg-E is a peg solitaire game in which you jump over pieces in order to remove them from the board, ultimately trying to eliminate all but one. The boards are randomly generated, with 100 levels of difficulty. The game auto-saves, and has undo-redo capability. Pieces can move horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.

Peg solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. The program includes over 330 solitaire problems. The program looks for new solutions and it is possible to raise new problems and games.

Peg Solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. The game fills the entire board with pegs except for the central hole. The objective is, making valid moves, to empty the entire board except for a solitary peg in the central hole.

Pente is the English name for the Asian game ni-nuki, which itself is a version of the game go-moku. The game is a variant of the well known five in a row. Placing five stones in a row is one way to win, the other is to capture five pairs of the opponents stones.

Pente can run in three different modes: X, curses or text. You can play against the computer or another human, and there is also support for playing over a network.

Pentobi is a strategy board game played on a square grid board using playing pieces in the shapes of polyominoes, similar to Tetris pieces. The aim of the game is to place all of your pieces while trying to block your opponent from placing all of theirs.

The game ends when no one can place any more pieces and the winner is determined by calculating the score based on the points of any remaining playing pieces. Bonus points are added for playing every piece and additional bonus points are added if the monomino, the 1x1 square piece, is played last.

Pgn-extract is a program to extract selected games from a collection of chess games in PGN format. There are several ways to specify the criteria on which to extract: textual move sequences, the position reached after a sequence of moves, information in the tag fields, and material balance in the ending.

Phalanx is a simple chess playing program of conventional design. It is xboard compatible. The main aim is to write a slow thinker with a lot of chess specific knowledge. Current version plays risky, active chess and shows quite good tactical performance.

Pioneers is a computer implementation of the Settlers of Catan board game. It can be played over the internet.

The game includes a server, a client, a computer player, an editor and (in a separate package) a metaserver (for locating running servers).

qGo is a computerized board on which you can play the game of Go against another player, view and edit smart-go files, and connect to Go servers on the internet. It can also interface with computer Go programs such as GNU Go that speak the Go modem protocol. Have a look at the cgoban package if you are interested in a Go client with less package dependencies.

See description of the gnugo package for a short description of the game.

Ricochet Robots is a multi-player board game which involves each user simultaneously solving a geometric challenge. This implementation is a networked version of the game with both client and server programs written in nickle using the nichrome toolkit.

Shane's Chess Information Database is a chess database application with a graphical user interface. You can browse databases of chess games, edit them and search for games by various criteria. Scid uses its own compact and fast database format, but can convert to and from PGN. Its also possible to play live on the internet and practice tactical knowledge.

This package contains the main program.

Go is a board game from Eastern Asia and TeX is a program for typesetting. sgf2dg converts Go game records in smart-go format (SGF) into TeX files. You can produce camera-ready copies for books or magazines, or simply generate attractive printouts of your (internet) Go games.

sgf2dg includes the Metafont sources for a new set of Go fonts, and a script, sgf2dg (formerly sgf2tex), which translates files in sgf-format into TeX.

Sjeng is a chess program that plays normal chess and many variants like crazyhouse, bughouse, suicide (aka giveaway or anti-chess) and losers. It can also play variants which have the same rules as normal chess, but a different starting position. It uses the XBoard/WinBoard interface by Tim Mann, so it can be used with xboard or eboard. It is also capable of playing on internet chess servers.

Let your chess engines play tournaments against each other. This program manages setup and automatic running engine vs. engine matches, it has an interactive commandline and can start and stop the tournament, show current state and a crosstable. Every game will be displayed in a xboard session and can be observed. All games are stored in portable chess game notation, pgn.

XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface for chess programs, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by itself as viewer for stored chess games.

XBoard uses the Helvetica font (located in the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages) by default. However, other fonts can be specified via a command line option or an X resource.

Chain Reaction is a classic strategy game for 2-4 players. Players take turns to place tokens on an 8x8 board. When a square exceeds its maximum value, it explodes, setting off the surrounding squares.

Risk is a war board game played on a map of the world. You control a group of armies and attempt to capture large sections of the world and try to stop your opponents from doing the same thing. You can also choose to play with a mission that you have to accomplish before your opponents do.

xfrisk allows you to play risk against other players over TCP/IP and includes 3 different AI players.

This a nicely implemented backgammon with the following features:

• X11/Xaw interface,
• a simple file selector and saving dialog,
• You can edit positions and perform rollouts.
• Position dump to a mail file in the format used in backgammon newsgroups.
• Easier movement of stones, by simple button clicks.
• You can play against an opponent on a remote X-Terminal. (experimental).

This program is an implementation of the original abacus, it provides the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Roman and Russian version and can be modified to allow others.

This is the Motif version which shows additional functionality. Motif is a GUI widget library for the X Window system.

Xmahjongg is a simple implementation of the popular solitaire Mah Jongg game. The object is to remove all 144 tiles from the playing area by matching them two at a time. Xmahjongg is the classical version with little in the way of requirements and enough aesthetical and gameplay features to provide hours and hours of fun.

Gnushogi is a computer player for Shogi (Japanese chess).

XShogi provides an X Window interface to play Shogi against gnushogi, and can also be used as an interface for a game between two humans on the same computer.

Xvier is a simple X game where you and your opponent alternately throw stones into free columns. The stones pile up in the columns, and the goal is to get four stones in a row, in a column or diagonally.

These are the games from the official GNOME release. They have the look and feel of the GNOME desktop, but can be used without it.

Games are now split in separate packages; this metapackage brings all of them but they can be installed separately.

KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.

This metapackage includes a collection of games provided with the official release of KDE.