Five or More

Five or More is an open source piece of software specifically designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It provides users with an addictive puzzle/board game where players must remove colored balls from a board, simply by forming lines of the same shape and color.

A port of Color Lines

The fact of the matter is that Five or More is a port of the once popular Color Lines game developed only for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The player's main objective will be to created color lines as often and fast as possible, with the ultimate goal of getting the highest score.

The game is played on a 9x9 grid

A new game always starts with three different marbles, placed random on a 9x9 grid. To play the game you will have to click on one of the three available objects and move them to an empty box. Three more pieces, which are displayed on the game's toolbar, are automatically added to the board each time you make a move.

You can only move pieces that are not blocked by other objects. A part of the game's strategy is to always watch which marbles are coming up next, so you can make the appropriate move and create lines of five or more objects of the same color and shape.

Each line of five or more similar object is automatically removed from the board, resulting in points. To move the trapped pieces, you will have to first move one of more objects that block its path.

The game ends automatically

The game ends automatically when the board is filled with marbles and you have no more moves, prompting users with the score board. You can start a new game by clicking the "Start a new game" button that will be available on the bottom right corner of the window.

From the Preferences dialog, you can change the object's theme (balls, dots, gumball, shapes), the background color, the board size (small, medium, large), as well as to enable or disable fast moves. There's no time limit or pause functionality implemented at this time.

What is new in this release:

• Updated translations
• Migrate to gettext
• Migrate to meson
• Use libgnome-games-support for scores tracking
• Drop autotools
• Update bugzilla references to gitlab
• Add flatpak build

What is new in version :

• Updated translations.

What is new in version 3.22.2:

• Updated translations.

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Updated translations
• Added content ratings

What is new in version 3.20.1 / 3.22.0 Beta 2:

• Updated translations
• Fixed theme loading

What is new in version 3.20.1:

• Fix Quit menu item and keyboard shortcut
• Fix window size growing out of control with GTK+ 3.20
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.19.3:

• Updated translations
• Updated appdata and doap

What is new in version 3.19.2:

• Updated translations
• Fixes for theme change help page (Anders Jonsson)

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.1 / 3.16.0 Beta 1:

• Updated translations
• Remove New Game from appmenu (Michael Catanzaro)
• Remove .gitignore from version Control (Michael Catanzaro)
• Fix comparison of pointer with integer (Michael Catanzaro)

What is new in version 3.15.4:

• Updated translations
• Confirm before restarting the game on board size change (Sahil Sareen)
• Mark new string for translation (Michael Catanzaro)
• Use imperative verb for the new dialog's action (Michael Catanzaro)
• Don't enter a score of zero in high scores (Sahil Sareen)
• Fixed various memory leaks (Robert Roth)

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Many updated translations

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1.1:

• Fix insensitive new game button.

What is new in version 3.12.2:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.12.1:

• Updated translations: Slovenian, Spanish

What is new in version 3.12 Beta 1:

• The game view is no longer far too small when playing with a Large field (regression in 3.11.5).
• The new game button now works.
• The new game button now has a tooltip.
• The desktop file has been renamed to gnome-chess.desktop
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.11.5:

• The size radio button in Preferences now always indicates the correct size
• A new game button now appears in the window after the game has ended
• Scores are now stored in the home directory, instead of in /var/games
• The binary no longer needs to be setgid in order for scores to work
• The outdated Classic and Pulse themes have been removed
• The default window size has been increased
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.11.4:

• Fix location of items on the right side of the headerbar with latest GTK+
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.11.3:

• Updated Dependencies: GTK+ >= 3.10
• Use a GtkHeaderBar
• Fix preview area disappearing when selecting another window
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.11.2:

• Updated translations.

What is new in version 3.10.2:

• Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.10.1:

• Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.10.0:

• Translation updates.

Requirements:

• GTK+