New: Puzzle Collection Portable 1.0 (dozens of puzzles) Released

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on January 18, 2011 - 11:42pm

logoPuzzle Collection Portable 1.0 has been released. Puzzle Collection Portable is a collection of dozens of single-player puzzles all packaged together with an easy-to-use interface. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

Read on for more details...

Features

ScreenshotThis portable package of Simon Tatham's puzzles includes:

  • Black Box - Find the hidden balls in the box by bouncing laser beams off them.
  • Bridges - Connect all the islands with a network of bridges.
  • Cube - Pick up all the blue squares by rolling the cube over them.
  • Dominosa - Tile the rectangle with a full set of dominoes.
  • Fifteen - Slide the tiles around to arrange them into order.
  • Filling - Mark every square with the area of its containing region.
  • Flip - Flip groups of squares to light them all up at once.
  • Galaxies - Divide the grid into rotationally symmetric regions each centred on a dot.
  • Guess - Guess the hidden combination of colors.
  • Inertia - Collect all the gems without running into any of the mines.
  • Keen - Complete the latin square in accordance with the arithmetic clues.
  • Light Up - Place bulbs to light up all the squares.
  • Loopy - Draw a single closed loop in accordance with the clues.
  • Magnets - Place magnets to satisfy the clues and avoid like poles touching.
  • Map - Color the map so that adjacent regions are never the same colour.
  • Mines - Find all the mines without treading on any of them.
  • Net - Rotate each tile to reassemble the network.
  • Netslide - Slide a row at a time to reassemble the network.
  • Pattern - Fill in the pattern in the grid, given only the lengths of runs of black squares.
  • Pegs - Jump pegs over each other to remove all but one.
  • Range - Place black squares to limit the visible distance from each numbered cell.
  • Rectangles - Divide the grid into rectangles with areas equal to the numbers.
  • Same Game - Clear the grid by removing touching groups of the same colour squares.
  • Signpost - Connect the squares into a path following the arrows.
  • Singles - Black out the right set of duplicate numbers.
  • Sixteen - Slide a row at a time to arrange the tiles into order.
  • Slant - Draw a maze of slanting lines that matches the clues.
  • Solo - Fill in the grid so that each row, column and square block contains one of every digit.
  • Tents - Place a tent next to each tree.
  • Towers - Complete the latin square of towers in accordance with the clues.
  • Twiddle - Rotate the tiles around themselves to arrange them into order.
  • Unequal - Complete the latin square in accordance with the > signs.
  • Untangle - Reposition the points so that the lines do not cross.

Learn more about Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection...

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Puzzle Collection Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Puzzle Collection Portable is available for immediate download from the Puzzle Collection Portable homepage. Get it today!

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Comments

Below the Download button says:

"Neverball Portable easily integrates with the PortableApps.com Suite™."

John T. Haller's picture

Fixed. CopyPasta error.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

the publisher link on the app page leads nowhere.

EDIT

Do you plan to include the help file into tha package in the future. Would be nice I think.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

John T. Haller's picture

The publisher link works fine for me. The help files are available for each game directly within each game by clicking Help. I may add it to the interface itself in a later release.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Simeon's picture

I overlooked the help files in the App folder. Sorry. Now I found them and everything is fine.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Thyrisis's picture

Thanks very much for releasing this - I've been playing these via a really old attempt to package the collection several years ago - GamePackPortable - and this is much better!