About
Description:
If you like puzzles and thinking games, you'll love Polyominoes!
Polyominoes is a challenging game based on polyominoes. A polyomino
is a piece made up entirely of squares connected edge-to-edge.
For example, a domino is a polyomino with 2 squares. In Polyominoes,
you can use pentominoes, tetrominoes, trominoes, hexominoes, or
create your own set of pieces!
Polyominoes is really four games in one.
- In GAME mode, you have a very interesting strategy game in which you
try to put the last piece on the board. The pieces can be flipped
or rotated in any manner. You can use any of the 100 different
boards, or create your own boards!
- In CHALLENGE mode, you're provided with a position from the game mode in which
you're challenged to find the winning move (and one always exists,
no matter how hard it is for you to find it!). It's similar to
chess mate-in-x puzzles. If you give up, the computer will show
you how it's done!
- In JIGSAW PUZZLE mode, you can try to place all the pieces on any of the boards.
providing countless hours of jigsaw puzzle fun.
- In SPANNING PUZZLE mode, you try to "span" the board with the fewest number of pieces.
The program keeps track of all of your best efforts.
System Requirements:
- Mac OS Classic 7.0 through 9.2.x (68K or PowerPC) OR
- Mac OS X 10.0 or later OR
- Microsoft Windows 95 or later
Price List:
Polyominoes is shareware. Prices as follows. Upgrades are free!
- $12 for single-user license ($10 for Windows version)
- $20 for K-12 classroom license
- $40 for K-12 site license
- Click here for more information.
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New in version 7.2:
- Mac OS Classic support of 7.1 features
- 18 new boards
- Bug fixes
New in version 7.1:
- Carbonized for Mac OS X
- Improved printing
- Game chooser
- Auto-update feature checks for new versions
- Boards and piece sets are saved in files which can be cross-platform
(next Windows version will read these files)
New in version 7.0:
- New CHALLENGE game
- User interface improvements
- Improved graphics (3-D look)
- Network play with integrated text chat
- HTML-based help system
- Easier registration using Kagi
- 10 more boards, bringing the total to 100
- Board browser for easy selection of boards
- Easier player selection
- Support for 1024x768 screens
- Bug fixes and more!
Release History
| OS |
Version |
Release Date
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Mac OS X, Classic
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7.2
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January 29, 2004
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Mac OS X
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7.1
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January 28, 2002
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Windows
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7.0
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Feb 23, 2001
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Macintosh
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7.0
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Jan 3, 2000
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Java
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1.0d5
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1997
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Macintosh
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6.0
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Nov 19, 1996
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Macintosh
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5.0
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May 1994
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Macintosh
|
4.0
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Jan 1993
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Macintosh
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3.0
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Aug 1992
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Macintosh
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2.4
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Apr 1992
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Macintosh
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2.0
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?
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Macintosh
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1.0
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Aug 7, 1990
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Publications
Polyominoes has appeared in the following publications:
- Net-Mac Games 2 (Japanese), 1995?, ISBN 4-938851-01-6.
- Bob Brant's Best of Macintosh Shareware, Bob Brant, Windcrest/McGraw
Hill, 1993, ISBN 0-8306-4203-x.
- Cool Mac Games Plus!, Cameron Crotty, Hayden, 1992, ISBN 0-672-48552-4.
- The Mac Shareware Emporium, Bernard J. David and Maria L. Langer,
Brady Books, Prentice Hall Computer Publishing, 1992, ISBN 0-13-151945-x.
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