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iQPuzzle is a diverting I.Q. challenging pentomino puzzle. Pentominos are used as puzzle pieces and more than 300 different board shapes are available, which have to be filled with them.
- Build for Windows, macOS (untested), AppImage or ReactOS
- Flatpak
- Ubuntu PPA
- Builds for Cent OS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, SLE
- Arch AUR
- Build for Mageia Cauldron
- Gentoo ebuild
- Build for OS/2
- FreeBSD Ports / DPorts
Note: The macOS release was created automatically on a build server and is untested due to missing hardware! If you are facing any trouble, please create an issue.
New translations and corrections are highly welcome! You can either fork the source code from GitHub, make your changes and create a pull request or you can participate on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/elth0r0/iqpuzzle/
Feel free to create a pull request on GitHub and your level might be included in the next release!
Own puzzle levels can be created as a text file stored with .conf file extension. Afterwards they can be loaded via "Game -> New game". As an example, the following parts belonging to level pento_T.conf:
[General]
GridSize=25
BGColor="#EEEEEE"
PossibleSolutions=106
NotAllPiecesNeeded=true
Freestyle=false
[Board]
Polygon="0,0 | 9,0 | 9,9 | 0,9 | 0,0"
Color="#FFFFFF"
BorderColor="#2E3436"
GridColor="#888A85"
## X X X X
## X
[Block1]
Polygon="0,0 | 4,0 | 4,1 | 1,1 | 1,2 | 0,2 | 0,0"
Color="#3465A4"
BorderColor="#000000"
StartPos="-3,-5"
[Block2]
...
[Barrier1]
Polygon="0,0 | 3,0 | 3,6 | 0,6 | 0,0"
Color="#000000"
BorderColor="#000000"
StartPos="0,3"
[Barrier2]
...Explanation of the different file sections:
| General | |
|---|---|
| GridSize | Decimal scale factor (default: 25). This parameter defines the size of a board field in pixels. |
| BGColor | Background color around the board as hex value (default: "#EEEEEE") |
| PossibleSolutions | Optional, if known: Number of possible solutions |
| NotAllPiecesNeeded | Optional, true or false, depending if all pieces are needed for the solution or not (default: false) |
| Freestyle | Optional, true or false. Dis-/enable free puzzling mode - neither counting moves nor checking if puzzle is solved (default: false) |
| Board | |
|---|---|
| Polygon | Board definition as polygon (more information see below). The board has to be rectangular! |
| Color | Background color of the board as hex value |
| BorderColor | Border color of the board as hex value |
| GridColor | Color of the board grid as hex value |
Puzzle pieces / barriers numbered from 1 to N:
| BlockN / BarrierN | |
|---|---|
| Polygon | Shape of a puzzle piece/barrier as orthogonal polygon; e.g.: "0,0 | 3,0 | 3,1 | 1,1 | 1,3 | 0,3 | 0,0" |
| Color | Color of piece/barrier as hex value |
| BorderColor | Border color as hex value |
| StartPos | Position "x, y" at game start (see below information about the coordinate system). Reference point is the top left corner of the piece. |
| Comments | |
|---|---|
| ## Comment | If needed, comments can be inserted with leading ## |
The top left corner of the board defines the origin of the used coordinate system. Points are defined as "x, y" (x-axis horizontal to the right, y-axis vertical downward). It is allowed to use negative values as start positions for the pieces.
Board, pieces and barriers are defined as (orthogonal) polygons. The shape is defined by a list of all corners. One has to take care, that the polygon is "closed", which means the first and last corner have to be identical. The corners (coordinates) are separated by a vertical bar | ("pipe", shortcut "AltGr + <") and the complete list is terminated by quotation marks. E.g. "0,0 | 3,0 | 3,1 | 1,1 | 1,3 | 0,3 | 0,0" can be seen on the picture below.
