Singles – Black out the Right Set of Duplicate Numbers – Puzzle Game

Singles

Singles

Singles is an implementation of Hitori (literally means ‘leave me alone’). The puzzle was invented by Nikoli, a Japanese publisher that specializes in games and, particularly, logic puzzles.

Singles/Hitori is played with a grid of squares or cells, with each cell initially containing a number. The objective is to eliminate numbers by blacking out some of the squares until no row or column has more than one occurrence of a given number.

Additionally, black cells cannot be adjacent, although they can be diagonal to one another. The remaining numbered cells must be all connected to each other.

Game Types:

  • 5×5 grid – Easy
  • 5×5 grid – Tricky
  • 6×6 grid – Easy
  • 6×6 grid – Tricky
  • 8×8 grid – Easy
  • 8×8 grid – Tricky
  • 10×10 grid – Easy
  • 10×10 grid – Tricky
  • 12×12 grid – Easy
  • 12×12 grid – Tricky
  • Custom mode

Below is a short tutorial showing you how to download and compile the latest source code for this game, and the other 38 games in the puzzle collection. The tutorial takes place in Linux, using the Ubuntu 17.10 distribution, but the procedure will be the same, or very similar, for other Linux distributions. If you find the tutorial helpful, please give the video a like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

OSSupportedNotes
Besides the main 3 operating system, the puzzle collection has also been ported by contributors to Palm, Android, Symbian 60, iPhone, iPad, and the Windows Store.

Homepage: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
Developer: Simon Tatham, Richard Boulton, James Harvey, Mike Pinna, Jonas Kölker, Dariusz Olszewski, Michael Schierl, Lambros Lambrou, Bernd Schmidt, Steffen Bauer, Lennard Sprong, and Rogier Goossens
License: MIT
Written in: C, Java, JavaScript

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