GNOME Tali

GNOME Tali is an open source application that provides users with a dice game in the style of Yahtzee, specifically designed to be used under the GNOME desktop environment. It's some kind of a poker game, but played with dice and no money.

How to play

While trying to create the best hand, players need to roll five dice three times, keeping in mind that the two re-rolls can include any or all of your dice. The game starts with a straightforward user interface that displays all five dice in the left side of the window, with a "Roll all!" button under them, as well as the main view area where you can see the players and the score.

You can consider the dice as cards, scoring points only If you have at least three of a kind, four of a kind, full house, small straight, large straight, and five of a kind. The first roll in automatic when a new game starts, but then you will be able to click on a single or multiple dice that you want to roll.

You'll notice that the dice are blank when selected, but pressing the "Roll!" button will display new values, allowing you to choose a score slot or roll one more time. When you have five of a kind, you get yahtzee. We should also mention that the program allows users to play the Kismet game.

Availability and under the hood

The game is distributed as part of the GNOME Games project, as a standalone package that can be installed on many GNU/Linux operating systems. It's graphical user interface is written in GTK+ and follows the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Design), offering a modern and easy-to-use program.

It integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment, allowing users to start a new game, view scores, view the local documentation, and access the Preferences dialog directly from the program's entry in the main GNOME Panel.

Bottom line

All in all, GNOME Tali provides a really nice, two-in-one board game software designed from the ground up to be straightforward and compatible with the GNOME desktop environment. If you want to play Yahtzee and Kismet on the GNU/Linux platform, we strongly suggest to give Tali a try.

What is new in this release:

• Translation Updates (many!)

What is new in version 3.20.0 / 3.22.0 Beta:

• Translation Updates (Lithuanian, Spanish, Slovak, Finnish, Czech, Portuguese, Hebrew)
• Added language headers to po files

What is new in version 3.16.1:

• Add symbolic icon (Jakub Steiner)
• Latvian translation update

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Translation Updates (Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Hungarian, Greek)

What is new in version 3.15.2:

• Translation Updates (Spanish, Norwegian bokmA¥l, Czech, Italian, Finnish)
• Remove GNOME Games branding (Michael Catanzaro)
• Various Fixes (Sahil Sareen, Michael Catanzaro)

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Translation Updates (German, Slovak)

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• Translation Updates

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:

• Translation Updates (French, Assamese, Greek)

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Translation Updates (Swedish, Catalan (Valencian), Catalan, Norwegian bokmA¥l)
• Doap changes

What is new in version 3.13.4:

• Translation updates (Swedish, Lithuanian, Catalan (Valencian), Czech, Catalan, Russian)
• i18n fixes (Piotr DrA...g)
• Appdata fixes, changed dependencies (GTL 3.12), added header bar for preferences (Michael Catanzaro)

What is new in version 3.12.2:

• Translation updates (Catalan (Valencian), Indonesian, Catalan, Greek)

What is new in version 3.12.1:

• Translation updates (Basque, Slovenian)

What is new in version 3.11.5:

• Use a GtkHeaderBar, pushed GTK requirement to 3.10, fixed layout issues
• Move scores from /var/games to home directory
• Translation updates (Traditional Chinese, Czech, Chinese simplified)

Requirements:

• GTK+