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XPilot is a multi-player tactical manouvring game for X and Unix workstations. Players have a fighter which they move along in an artificial world and shoot each other using various kinds of weapons like bullets, mines, smart missiles, heat seekers and so on. It is a fast paced game with a lot of tactics. There are also robots flying around shooting players and other robots. Players can pickup special bonuses to improve the possibilities of their ship like more engine power or special weapons. The aim of the game is to score points and to have a lot of fun.

Xdemineur is a minesweeper game for the X Window System. The object of this game is to find the location of the mines hidden in the minefield and to mark their location by placing a warning flag. You have exactly as many flags as there are mines. The number of flags that remain to be placed is displayed in the top left corner of the window and a timer is displayed in the top right corner.

xdesktopwaves is a cellular automata setting the background of your X Window System under water. Windows and mouse are like ships on the sea. Each movement of these ends up in moving water waves. You can even have rain and/or storm stirring up the water.

Xpipeman is a game of skill requiring the user to connect together pieces of a pipe to allow a liquid to flow through without leaking out. The liquid flows out of the block marked with an "S". The aim of the game is to connect as many pieces of pipe to the start block as possible.

XDino, dino puzzle game for X11. XDino is the puzzle game like as a rubik's cube, not 9 but 4 pieces on a surface.

XEmeraldia, Drop the blocks. If you drop a square on top of one of the same color, they (as well as any neighboring blocks of the same color) will both be shaken by an "impact". The first impact will cause fractures; the second will cause the block(s) to dissolve. You can either use the arrow keys or vi-style (hjkl) keys to move/ rotate the blocks. `s' or `p' will pause the game, and if your boss comes along, `q' can be used to avoid an unpleasant confrontation. http://www.reloco.com.ar/xemeraldia/

From its homepage: xpuyopuyo is a UNIX port of a very big time sink :) . Puyo puyo is a puzzle game, somewhat like Tetris, where you strive to match up four "blobs" of the same color. Each match you make gives points, and also dumps gray rocks on the opponent which are irritating and troublesome to get rid of. Multiple matches at a time score more points, and dump more rocks on the opponent (a quintuple-match will dump around 20 rocks on the opponent, all at once). We ported it overnight to Linux, so we could play whenever we felt like. The AI's evolved more slowly, over the course of a week or so. I welcome sugges- tions on how to make the AI's more difficult during the game; currently, they are rather easy to beat on easy level, but more difficult on hard. There are still gaping holes in the game interface which should be fixed soon. Sugges- tions for improvements are welcome.

The original puzzle has 9 triangles per face (size = 3) and has period 3 turning (i.e. the face or points turn in 120 degree intervals). The puzzle was designed by Uwe Meffert and called the Pyraminx. This has 2^5*3^8*6!/2 or 75,582,720 different combinations. Another puzzle Senior Pyraminx 3x3x3 exists only on paper, it has period 2 turning (i.e. edges turn with 180 degree intervals) but the corners would fall off unless it had some tricky mechanism. (This may be the same as the Master Pyraminx which has 446,965,972,992,000 different combinations). Another puzzle (which was not widely distributed), the Junior Pyraminx (and similarly the Junior Pyraminx Star, a octahedron formed by two tetrahedra, this has 7!*3^6 or 3,674,160 different combinations), has 4 triangles (size = 2) per face and at the time I designed this computer puzzle thought that it had only period 2 turning (i.e the edges rotate). It turns out the puzzle has a period 4 turning (edges turn with 90 degree intervals) which makes it analogous to the 2x2x2 Rubik's cube. This puzzle makes various non-tetrahedral shapes. The puzzle contained here has no period 4 turning flexability.

Xrobots puts you into a world of evil robots (but in an X window, of course). It's your intellect against the robots, who have numbers on their side. Fortunately for you, these robots have a bad habit of crashing into each other, destroying themselves and temporarily improving your chances of survival.

XGalaga++ is a classic vertical scrolling shoot em up. It requires no X Window extension and its window is freely resizable. It is inspired by XGalaga, but rewritten from scratch, except for the graphics.