A Farewell to Kings
DownloadThis is an solitaire card game very different from the normal solitaire where positional play and forward planning are essential. An instruction file comes with the game. Once the game is opened then the File menu with the Open option reveals several sample games for your instruction.
Abalone
Download SiteThis is a strategy board game involving marble pushing. You win if you push all your opponents marbles off the board. When the game is opened the rules are to be found under the Apple Menu.
Backstab
Download SiteAn intriguing board game for two with easy rules but a difficult strategy. The aim is to end up with more of your pieces on the board than your opponents. The rules are described in the help menu.
Blobs
DownloadA single player game. Place the blobs before the time runs out. Blobs come in different colours with a number on them. The number reduces by 1 when a blob connects to another of the same colour. When a group has of connected blobs have no numbers in them they dissapear and give you a score. Reach the target score and you proceed to the next level. The rules may be found by clicking Help on the screen. Strategic planning is essential when placing blobsl. Addictive!
Deco
DownloadA single player game in which you race against time to drop long rectangular coloured pieces onto the playing board. You can roatate the board and in this way the pieces cross each other. Same colour crossings are good but different colour crossings are bad news. The rules are under the help menu. A must to help strengthen geometrical visualisation skills.
DownloadUp to six players can play. Roll the three dice, combine the three numbers using the basic arithmetical operations and if your answer is still on the board breathe a sigh of relief. If not then can you combine them in a different way to get one of the numbers remaining on the board? Tension is increased by the graphical timer. Excellent for sharpening mental arithmetic skills.
DownloadThis is the classic Paper & Pencil game. You may play the computer or set the preferences for human v human. The better variant is when you are not forced to complete a box when you can and there is an option for this also in the preferences. This leads to a more strategic game.
Factor Game
A game for two which will strengthen knowledge of factors. Choose a number. You keep it as your score but your opponent gets all your number's unused factors added to her score. Choose your numbers carefully! Rules are under the Apple Menu.
Flaps
DownloadA single player game where balls appear at the top of the screen and you have to direct them to the correct empty locations at the bottom of the screen by means of turning flaps. But watch out flaps vanish if the ball is trapped. A highly frustrating game where forward planning and geometrical visualisation are essential. Click the help button on the screen to read the rules.
Haste
DownloadA two player card game (or one against the computer) Basically, Haste is like having two people playing a simple kind of solitaire at the same time as fast as they can, but playing on top of each other's cards as well as their own! Also, the card values can run either up or down, not only in one direction as in solitaire. Of course, at some point, both players will be unable to play, and in this case they draw new cards to refresh the discard piles--this is called "spitting". The winner is the first person to run out of cards or the one with fewer cards left at the end of game. The rules are in a seperate file in the Haste folder.
Nim Games
DownloadThis is a suite of Nim-type games. Two may play in "human v human" mode or one may play in "human v computer" mode. Comprehensive rules are given in the Apple menu under Help. Games included are:
Nim, Prime Nim, NorthCroft's Nim, Turn-a-block, My Daddy makes more money than yours, Corner the Queen, Corner the Superqueen, Corner the King and Corner the Superking.
There is a misere option ie first to "win" loses.
Numzum
DownloadIn this demo version you may only play against the computer. You are presented with a grid of numbers, some positive some negative. At your turn you select a number from the highlighted row (or column). This number is added to your score. The column (or row) that your chosen number was in becomes the highlighted column (or row) for your opponent to then choose her number. A devious game of strategy. Watch your score frustratingly rise and fall.
Pentominoes
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This a collection of 100 solitaire puzzles concerning the pentomino shapes. Instructions may be found under the Apple menu: choose the help option.
Product Game
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A two player game. Each player has marker. At your turn you move your marker on a 'number strip'. The product made by the two marked numbers (by your marker & your opponent's marker) on the strip is highlighted in your colour on a grid of numbers. You aim to get 4-in-a-row. Options include negative numbers and fractions and several difficulty levels. Simple but effective!
RummyTile
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Download
and 
. The aim is
to create a loop in your own colour or a line from edge to
opposite edge at least 8 tiles wide. There is no board as such.
Tiles are placed side-by-side and create an ever expanding
pattern. The instructions and rules are to be found under the Help
menu. To start play go to Game menu and choose Player option, type
in names of players then choose New Game in the Game menu.
Clicking on the screen will produce a new flashing tile. Repeated
clicks will give all possible options of orientation. Press the
return key to finally place your tile.