GNOME Games
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GNOME Games is a collection of computer games
Computer Games
"Computer Games" is a single by New Zealand group, Mi-Sex released in 1979 in Australia and New Zealand and in 1981 throughout Europe. It was the single that launched the band, and was hugely popular, particularly in Australia and New Zealand...

 that is part of the standard open-source GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 desktop environment.
It includes the following games:
  • AisleRiot - (also known as "sol") - a suite of Solitaire
    Solitaire
    Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people. The solitaire card game Klondike is often known as simply Solitaire....

     card games.
  • GNOME Blackjack
    Blackjack
    Blackjack, also known as Twenty-one or Vingt-et-un , is the most widely played casino banking game in the world...

     - a computerized implementation of the gambling game. (Removed in October 2009)
  • Five or more
  • Four-in-a-row
  • GNOME Chess - a chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

     game.
  • GNOME Mahjongg
    Mahjong
    Mahjong, sometimes spelled Mah Jongg, is a game that originated in China, commonly played by four players...

     - the traditional Chinese game for a single player.
  • GNOME Mines
    Gnomine
    Gnomines is a minesweeper game for GNOME is licensed under the GPL as part of GNOME Games. The game was written in C by Pista and it was later improved by face artwork made by tigert...

     - an implementation of the Minesweeper computer game
    Minesweeper (computer game)
    Minesweeper is a single-player video game. The object of the game is to clear an abstract minefield without detonating a mine. The game has been written for many system platforms in use today....

    .
  • Klotski
    Klotski
    Klotski is a sliding block puzzle. Sometimes it only refers to the block arrangement in the right-hand-side diagram, where the largest block must be moved to the bottom middle location...

  • lagno - an implementation of Reversi
    Reversi
    Reversi is a board game involving abstract strategy and played by two players on a board with 8 rows and 8 columns and a set of distinct pieces for each side. Pieces typically are disks with a light and a dark face, each face belonging to one player...

  • Nibbles
  • Quadrapassel - a Tetris
    Tetris
    Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

     clone (called Gnometris prior to October 2009).
  • Robots
  • Same GNOME
  • Sudoku - a Sudoku
    Sudoku
    is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...

     generator and game.
  • Tetravex
    TetraVex
    TetraVex is a puzzle computer game, available for Windows and Linux systems.- Gameplay :TetraVex is an edge-matching puzzle. The player is presented with a grid and nine square tiles, each with a number on each edge. The objective of the game is to place the tiles in the grid in the proper...

  • Swell Foop - a SameGame
    SameGame
    is a computer puzzle game featuring tile removal originally released under the name Chain Shot! in 1985 by Kuniaki Moribe . It has since been ported to numerous computer platforms.-History:...

     clone.
  • GNibbles - a remake of Nibbles.
  • Tali - A dice-style poker game, similar to Yahtzee
    Yahtzee
    Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley , which was first marketed by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956. The game is a development of earlier dice games, such as Yacht and Generala. The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations...

    .


It is included by default in several major linux distributions, such as Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...

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