Games

I enjoy playing sudoku. It’s a mental challenge to figure out how to fill in the blanks. I had typically played the game on my android phone or tablet. The available apps are pretty good and have lots of aids for adding ‘pencil’ marks, tracking how many of each number needs to be placed, row and column highlighting, errors, etc. Screenshot from websudoku.com The android games also keep track of stats such as your best time to finish a puzzle type, how many puzzles you had completed of each difficulty level, award badges for achieving milestones and so on. ...

One of the standby Linux games is AisleRiot Solitaire. I know, it’s not all that exciting, it’s solitaire. But sometimes you are just looking for something quick and light to fill the time. AisleRiot was installed in the first Linux distribution I ever tried and I did not realize for a long time that it contained other games besides basic Klondike. It turns out if you choose Game | Select Game… from the menu (Ctrl+O), there are 90 different solitaire games available to play! Okay, some of the games are not that great. Some can be won every time (no challenge) and others are ridiculously difficult (no fun). Some of my all time favorite games are there; Freecell, Spider, Triple Peaks. But I am finding some new favorites like Eagle Wing and most recently Whitehead. ...