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The computer calculates a combination of five characters (each between A and J) and you have to try to find out the combination the computer has calculated. Your questions to the computer are also combinations of five characters (each between A and J). You get sets of black and/or white blocks as answers to your questions. If you get a black block as answer it means that there is one character in your try at the correct position (but you don't know which one it is). If you get a white block as answer it means that there is a character in your guess that also occurs in the solution, but at another position (but you don't know which one it is and at which position it would be correct).

The original Panex puzzle is from the Japanese Magic Company from the 1980's. Mathematicians at Bell Laboratories estimated the number of moves to swap 2 columns of order 10 to be 27,564 <= N <= 31,537. It came in two varieties: one with a blue and a yellow pyramid of order 10 on silver tiles; in the gold version pieces of each color look alike i.e. no pyramid is drawn on them), this is a little harder. The original Tower of Hanoi puzzle is the invention of Edouard Lucas and was sold as a toy in France in 1883. The legend of 64 disks in the great temple of Benares of the god Brahma is also his invention.

To run: Simply type xscrabble. This will bring up the setup box which will allow you to enter the names and displays and other info for the game to wish to play. Then click on the Start Game button, (or Load Previous if you're restarting a game). The main program, xscrab, will then be automatically called with the appropriate options. The game is saved after every turn (in "~/.xscrabble.save" of the person running it) and can be restarted by running xscrabble, entering exactly the same info, and hitting the Load Previous button. This was a student project, and there are not likely to be any future releases. Have fun, Matt Chapman.

Xisola game follow this simple rule: Each move consists of two actions: first move your piece to an adjascent empty field (horizontal, vertical or diagonal, like the king in Chess), then take away any of the empty fields Since the number of fields decreases with every move there will be a point when one player will not have any empty fields left to move to and he loses.

Masterball is a puzzle similar in nature to the famous Rubik's Cube. The original puzzle has 8 sectors on a sphere (longitudinal cuts), with each sector divided into 4 segments (latitudinal cuts). By building from the source and editing its Imakefile before the ``build'' phase, you may be able to use Motif or LessTif with this port.

The original puzzle has 9 triangles per face (size = 3) and has period 4 turning (i.e. the face or points turn with 90 degree intervals). The puzzle was designed by Uwe Meffert and called the Magic Octahedron (or Star Puzzler). The puzzle was not widely distributed but not exactly rare. This puzzle has some analogies to the Rubik's Cube and the solving techniques are the same to that of the Pyraminx. Christoph's Magic Jewel is similar except there are no trivial corners to solve. This has 2^22*12! or 2,009,078,326,886,400 different combinations. Uwe Meffert also noticed that there could be an alternate twisting for the octahedron where it has period 3 turning (i.e. faces turn with 120 degree intervals). One is able to simulate a Trajber's Octahedron (period 3 turning and sticky mode). Also one is able to simulate one with variant turning (period 4 turning and sticky mode).

ZAngband is one of the many variants of the freeware rogue-like computer roleplaying game Angband.

Idea and purpose of this program is the calculation of three-dimensional fractals. The calculated objects are twisted, freely in space floating (and - of course - fractal) "lumps" which look like made of dough - in contrast to what is normally called "three-dimensional" fractals (namely a simple reinterpretation of the two-dimensional data). Generation of a really three dimensional view is possible (3d stereo). The fractal can be seen three dimensional without any utilities like 3d glasses.

This software provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. Included in this software distribution is a small collection of tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images on UNIX systems. LICENSE: Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell for any purpose