Hitori

Hitori is a tiny piece of software that provides users with an open source logic puzzle game in the style of the more widely used Sudoku games. It has been designed from the ground to be deployed along with the GNOME desktop environment.

Features at a glance

The software features undo and redo functionality, hints, support for a wide range of grids, allows users to create cells that will be tagged with one or two different tags, which can be used to solve the actual puzzle, as well as full support for playing the Hitori game, by checking if all the three rules are satisfied.

In addition, the program comes with built-in support for a wide range of grids, including the default 5x5 one, and continuing with 6x6, 7x7, 8x8, 9x9 and 10x10. These can be easily changed from the Game menu, which also allows users to get hints or use the undo/redo functions during the gameplay.

Its graphical user interface is very basic and straightforward. It partially integrates with the GNOME Panel, allowing users to start a new game or access the comprehensive documentation, from where you can learn how to play and view gameplay strategies.

Under the hood and availability

The program is written entirely in the C++ programming language and requires the GTK+ 3 GUI toolkit and Cairo 1.4 graphics library for the graphical user interface. As mentioned, is distributed along with the GNOME project and can be downloaded as a source archive, installable on many Linux distributions.

Bottom line

Summing up, Hitori is a decent, yet not so fancy application that allows Linux users to play the eponymous puzzle game. The good news is that it is not attached to GNOME, as it can also be used on other open source desktop environments, as long as all requirements are met.

What is new in this release:

• Translations:
• bg (Alexander Shopov)
• ca (Jordi Mas)
• fa (Arash Mousavi)
• fr (Alain Lojewski)
• ko (Junyoul Lim)
• ml (Ani Peter)
• nl (Nathan Follens)
• pl (Piotr Drag)
• tr (Muhammet Kara)

What is new in version 3.22.3:

• Minor rendering improvements (bug #732776)
• Add flatpak manifests for nightly builds
• Drop use of deprecated GTK+ API (no dependency change)
• Translations:
• be (Yuras Shumovich)
• ca (Jordi Mas)
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)
• gl (Fran Dieguez)
• lv (Rudolfs Mazurs)
• ru (Yuri Myasoedov)
• uk (Daniel Korostil)

What is new in version 3.22.1:

• Port from intltool to gettext (this drops the intltool dependency)
• Add various build-time checks (this adds an optional build-time dependency on xmllint)
• Translations:
• cs (Marek Cernocky')
• da (scootergrisen)
• de (Mario Blattermann)
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• fi (Jiri Gronroos)
• fr (Alexandre Franke)
• fur (Fabio Tomat)
• hu (Balazs Mesko)
• id (Kukuh Syafaat)
• it (Gianvito Cavasoli)
• lt (Aurimas Cernius)
• pl (Piotr Drag)
• pt (Tiago Santos)
• pt_BR (Rafael Fontenelle)
• sk (Dusan Kazik)
• sv (Anders Jonsson)
• zh_CN (liushuyu, Mandy Wang)

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Various AppData fixes
• Translations:
• fa (Arash Mousavi)
• fur (Fabio Tomat)
• oc (Cedric Valmary)
• pl (Piotr Drag)
• pt (Sergio Cardeira)
• sv (Anders Jonsson)

What is new in version 3.16.2:

• Fix build error with Clang
• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.3:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Translations:
• hu (Gabor Kelemen)
• tr (Necdet YA¼cel, Muhammet Kara)

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Updated translations

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Translations:
• da (Joe Hansen)
• de (Christian Kirbach)
• hu (Gabor Kelemen)

What is new in version 3.14 RC:

• Minor UI and translation updates
• Minor build system updates
• Translations:
• as (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
• ca (Gil Forcada)
• cs (Marek AŒernockA½)
• el (Tom Tryfonidis)
• fi (Jiri GrA¶nroos)
• fr (GArard Baylard, Erwan GEORGET)
• gl (Fran Dieguez)
• he (Yosef Or Boczko)
• id (Andika Triwidada)
• ko (Changwoo Ryu)
• nb (Kjartan Maraas)
• pl (Piotr DrA...g)
• pt_BR (Ricardo Barbosa)
• ru (Yuri Myasoedov)
• sk (DuAan Kazik)
• zh_HK (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
• zh_TW (Chao-Hsiung Liao)

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Follow guidelines for including license info in help
• Translations:
• es (Daniel Mustieles)
• lt (Aurimas AŒernius)
• nb (Kjartan Maraas)
• sv (Anders Jonsson)
• uk (Daniel Korostil)

What is new in version 0.4.4:

• Fix various small memory leaks
• Fix behaviour of the redo stack
• Updated translations

What is new in version 0.4.3:

• Updated several translations.

What is new in version 0.4.2:

• Add an AppData file
• Updated translations

What is new in version 0.2.6:

• Update COPYING-DOCS to give the CC license rather than the GFDL (with the documentation rewrite in 0.2.5, the documentation was relicensed to a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license)

Requirements:

• GTK+
• GLib2
• Cairo