GNOME Tetravex is an open source piece of software that provides users with a fun and entertaining board/puzzle game designed primarily for the modern GNOME desktop environment. It also supports other open source window managers, such as Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce or LXDE.
In this game, the player has to move a set of tiles from one box to another, making sure that the same numbers are touching each other. It is similar to the gameplay of the traditional Domino or Sudoku games.
The game is timed
The game is timed, and it will automatically store these times in a system-wide scoreboard that any user can access. By default, it starts with a 3x3 grid, an empty one on the left side and a full one on the right side.
You will have to move the tiles, one by one, from the right box to the left one while matching the numbers up, down, left or right. The gameplay is pretty straightforward and won't let players do mistakes, as it will automatically return a tile to its original position if the numbers don't match.
Designed for GNOME
The main game window is quite simple, allowing users to only pause the game or skip a certain level by pressing the "Resolve" button. The gameplay is not based on levels, but each new game features a different set of tiles, giving players some diversity.
As mentioned, the game is distributed along with the GNOME desktop environment, with which it integrates well, allowing users to start a new games, view the scoreboard, view the documentation, and change the grid size (2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 and 6x6 sizes are available).
Bottom line
Overall, GNOME Tetravex offers a really entertaining puzzle game that will put your mind to work. It is an independent/standalone program that can be easily installed from the default software channels of many Linux distributions.
What is new in this release:
- Translation Updates (Persian, British English, Polish)
What is new in version 3.20.0 / 3.22.0 Beta:
- Updated gettext head files.
What is new in version 3.16.0:
- Translation Updates (Finnish, Italian)
What is new in version 3.15.2:
- Translation Updates (Spanish, Norwegian bokmA¥l, Czech, Italian, Latvian, Finnish)
- gtk changes (accels, version bump, gresource) (Arnaud Bonatti)
What is new in version 3.14.0:
- Translation Updates (Danish, Hungarian, German, Slovak)
What is new in version 3.14 RC1:
- Translation Updates
What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:
- Translation Updates (Swedish, Traditional Chinese, French, Galician, Czech, Brazilian, Hebrew)
What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:
- Translation Updates (Lithuanian, Hungarian, Spanish, Norwegian bokmA¥l)
- Doap changes
What is new in version 3.13.4:
- Added command line options (Arnaud Bonatti)
- Translation Updates (Lithuanian, Catalan (Valencian), Spanish, Greek, Catalan, Hebrew, Russian)
- Appdata Updates (Michael Catanzaro)
- Updated requirements, general fixup (Michael Catanzaro)
- Design Updates (Michael Catanzaro)
What is new in version 3.12.3:
- Restore Ctrl+Arrow hotkeys for moving all pieces at once.
What is new in version 3.12.2:
- Translation Updates (Catalan (Valencian), Catalan, Greek)
What is new in version 3.12.1:
- Translation Updates (Basque, Slovenian)
What is new in version 3.11.5:
- Changed About dialog
- Fixed instructions
- Translation Updates (Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Norwegian bokmA¥l, Czech, Chinese simplified)
What is new in version 3.11.4:
- Updated About dialog
- Translation updates (Portugese)
What is new in version 3.11.3:
- Scores dialog: autoscroll to new score
- Move the fallback app menu into the headerbar, standardize Help/About/Quit
- Changed dependencies (Vala 0.22, GTK+ 3.10)
- appdata: update homepage
- Translation updates (Greek)
What is new in version 3.11.2:
- Check for *-validate before using it, Run autoupdate
- Translation updates (Spanish, Galician)
What is new in version 3.10.1:
- On new game make sure the pause button is set correctly
- Update button states after clicking the paused field
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.10.0:
- Translation updates.
Requirements:
- GTK+
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