Each square piece has a number on each side. Position the pieces on the left side of the board so that the same numbers are next to each other. If the numbers don’t match, you can’t put the piece there. Move quickly: you’re being timed!You can make the game easier or harder by changing the size of the board.

GNOME Tetravex

Control a worm in its quest to eat bonuses and become longer. Outmaneuver enemy worms while eating doughnuts and ice cream to increase your length. Each worm has ten lives and loses one by running into a wall, another worm, or itself. The enemy worms are after the same bonuses that you are, so be careful: if they become too large, you won’t have much room for movement.The adventure progresses through 26 maps of increasing difficulty. The early levels are mostly open with a few walls, but later on, cramped spaces and teleporters make things more interesting.Play on your own against up to five enemy worms, or share your keyboard to play with a friend.

GNOME Nibbles

Five or More is the GNOME port of a once-popular computer game. Align five or more objects of the same color into a line to cause them to disappear and score points. Earn many more points by lining up as many objects as possible before clearing them.More objects appear after every turn. Play for as long as possible, until the board is completely full!

Five or More

Remove colored balls from the board by forming lines

A family classic, the objective of Four-in-a-row is to build a line of four of your marbles while trying to stop your opponent (human or computer) from building a line of his or her own. A line can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal. The first player to connect four in a row is the winner!Four-in-a-row features multiple difficulty levels. If you’re having trouble, you can always ask for a hint.

Four-in-a-row

GNOME Klotski is a set of block sliding puzzles. The objective is to move the patterned block to the area bordered by green markers. To do so, you’ll need to slide other blocks out of the way. Complete each puzzle in as few moves as possible!GNOME Klotski comes with nearly thirty different puzzle layouts of varying difficulty. Some of the layouts are similar and only the size of one or more blocks differ. Other layouts have more variety.

GNOME Klotski

Remove as many squares as possible from the board. Click on a group of squares of the same color to make them all disappear in one fell swoop, causing other squares to fall into place. It is not possible to remove a single square at a time. You get far more points for clearing a larger group of squares, and also for clearing the entire board.Swell Foop is always very quick to play, but you can make it somewhat longer by changing the board size.

Swell Foop

Clear the screen by removing groups of colored and shaped tiles

Lights Off is a collection of light switch puzzles. Clicking on a light toggles it either on or off, but also toggles all the surrounding lights, too. Your objective is simple: turn off all the lights!Players who delight in turning off lights will enjoy the huge number of levels.

Lights Off

Taquin is a computer version of the 15-puzzle and other sliding puzzles.The object of Taquin is to move tiles so that they reach their places, either indicated with numbers, or with parts of a great image.

GNOME Taquin

It is the distant future: the year 2000. Evil robots are trying to kill you. Avoid the robots or face certain death.Fortunately, the robots are extremely stupid and will always move directly towards you. Trick them into colliding into each other, resulting in their destruction, or into the junk piles that result. You can defend yourself by moving the junk piles, or escape to safety with your handy teleportation device.Your supply of safe teleports is limited, and once you run out, teleportation could land you right next to a robot, who will kill you. Survive for as long as possible!

GNOME Robots

Avoid the robots and make them crash into each other

A variation on poker with dice and less money, this game is a family classic. Throw the dice three times in a row, holding back the ones you like, in order to make the best possible hand. You can also play a lesser-known variant with colored dice.Play between one and five opponents at three difficulty levels.

Apps by The GNOME Project