This is a series of python word and board games to operate on the iPad using the excellent Pythonista app.
In general, the games do not work well on iPhone due to smaller screen area and the restrictions of touch interface. Some optimisation has been made to operate in iPad Portrait mode, but Landscape is generally preferred. The games do not autodetect orientation change. All games were developed using a 13" Ipad. Most games have automatic detection of device size and orientation on startup. Tested using Ipad 13", IPad 10", IPad Mini, IPhone. The module change_screensize.py should be placed into site-packages (user). It allows creation of a virtual device window, and detection of virtual window size.
The games all use the Scene module, which is a thin wrapper around the Apple UiKit framework.
A generic gui framework has been developed to place a grid at maximum size, along with buttons and messages
Style note: Due to the limited debugging in Pythonista, I frequently used a non-preferred way to use list comprehensions e.g. [print(x) for x in iterable] This is to allow stepping over an iteration loop during debug. Hint: a conditional breakpoint mode would be nice, or ability to set breakpoint in called module.
Games are:
My personal favourite from 1992. Superb program that plays best using a smart pencil. Full credit to Colin Garbutt for the original program, and Colin Phipps for the Python version. I have adapted GUI to use Pythonista for IOS rather than pygtk. For further details on the game see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kye_(video_game), https://www.kye.me.uk/ and http://games.moria.org.uk/kye/
Entry point : Kye/Kye.py
Both classic, Killer and KenKen are supported. The Sudoko solve engine is provided by http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
Entry point : Word_Games/Sudoku.py
Variant of Sudoko in which coloured cages contain numbers 1 to size of cage, and no number can be next to the same in any direction. New puzzles can be created, but beware that these can take a long time, up to 30min for 9x9 grid. Valid games are stored in suguru.txt (json format) , and are selected by choosing Random NxN. Any additionally created puzzles will be stored in suguru.txt Run Word_Games/test_suguru.py to automate new puzzle creation.
Entry point : Word_Games/Suguru.py
Another classic game. Multiple word categories included
place engine word_square_gen.py from ?
Entry point : Word_Games/wordsearch.py
Classic game, based on ai engine from Murat Sahin scrabble_ai_main Plays a mean game. Option for AI-AI game using 'Complete Game' in Pause Menu
Entry point : Word_Games/Scrabble.py
Crossword grid filled with a selection of words. Find the words to fit Idea taken from Puzzler magazine
Entry point : Word_Games/Pieceword.py
Crossword grid filled with a selection of words. Find the letter linked to each number. Idea taken from Puzzler magazine The first puzzles are randomly genererated and may not include all letters. All others are taken from published games in magazines and newspapers.
Entry point : Word_Games/NumberWord.py
A variant of NumberWords when you have to find the blanks also
Entry point : Word_Games/SkelNumbers.py
Crossword grid filled with a selection of words. Find the words to fit
Entry point : Word_Games/anagram_word.py
A personal favourite. 3x3 word tiles are jumbled on a 15x21 grid. Use the clues to rearrange them. Touch and dragging tile causes the tiles to swap position
Entry point : Word_Games/PieceWord.py
A crossword filled with a section of words. The black squares have been removed, causing all the letter to drop. Reconstruct the crosssword by dragging the letters to their correct locations
Entry point : Word_Games/Dropword.py
A reverse wordsearch. Place the given words in their correct locations given then starting points
Entry point : Word_Games/KrossWord.py
Choose 5 letters based upon scores for previous guess
Entry point : Word_Games/wordle.py
Take a short quote (used Stephen Fry). Scramble the letters. You must swap letters to descramble the quote. This is WIP as the game is not very interesting at present
Entry point : Word_Games/Quoteword.py
Presents a grid with spaces, arithmetic operators and totals Fill the spaces with unique numbers to complete the sums Operations are computed L-R and T-B Choose from 3x3 (nos 1-9), 4x4 (nos 1-16) or 5x5 (nos 1-25) if you dare
Entry point: Word_Games/Number_grid.py
A simple modification to Number Grid. Presents a grid with spaces and comparison between some values Fill the spaces with unique numbers to satisfy the inequalities.
Entry point: Word_Games/Inequalities.py
A simple program to manually solve crosswords produced by the Crossword Creator program below and puzzles in crossword_puzzles.txt Select in a word to enter letters. Buttons 'Check' will check all words, and 'Hint' will fill a random word
Entry point : Word_Games/Crossword.py
A game published by puzzle books and newspapers to guess the route of train tracks from A to B, using clues which number the tracks in each row and column. An editor to produce new puzzles is included.
The solver is taken from https://github.com/ianastewart/tracks with turtle graphics removed
Entry point : Board_Games/TrainTracks.py
Simple implemation of a classic game. An early attempt by me, could be prettier!
Entry point : Board_Games/tetris.py
VERY simple ball drop program in the style of breakout. Originally programmed on Commodore PET in 1983!
Entry point : Board_Games/demolition.py
Modified from Game-Pigeon-Solvers by Kyle Gerner https://github.com/k-gerner/Game-Pigeon-Solvers
Entry point : Board_Games/sea_battle/Sea_Battle.py
Generated by Gemini AI and modified to use Gui interface
Entry point : Board_Games/Othello.py
Modified from Game-Pigeon-Solvers by Kyle Gerner https://github.com/k-gerner/Game-Pigeon-Solvers
Entry point : Board_Games/connect4/Connect4.py
Another classic game.
Entry point : Board_Games/MineSweeper.py
A gui front end bolted on to https://github.com/niklasf/python/chess Proof of concept, not complete
Entry point : Pychess/chess_gui_scene.py
Dots and Boxes modified from DotsAndBoxes M Sokhail Zakir/ Ammara Riaz
Entry point : Board_Games/Dots.py
Displays a grid maze using one of several generating algorithms. Best played using a pencil or larger grids. May form basis of other maze games.
End point is randomly placed. Solution is automatically calculated, and compared with path being drawn.
Uses mazelib from https://github.com/john-science/mazelib (small change to remove invalid import cython )
Entry point : Board_Games/MazeGame.py
Sliding puzzle game can select numbers or any image from the photo library requires installation of slidingpuzzle from pypi
Entry point : Board_Games/tiles.py
a version of Snake modelled on The Very Hungry Caterpillar for my grandchildren
Entry point : Board_Games/caterpillar.py
Modified and improved(?) https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a03bfdab757c1d978061 Changed icons, added shields, and quite a bit of refactoring
Entry point : AI_games/a_spaceShooter.py
Classic card game known also as Solitaire. Games have been preselected to be maybe solvable. Drag the cards to new positions or just touch the card to perform best move.
Entry point : Card_Games/Klondike.py
Classic solitaire card game. Drag the cards to new positions Entry point : Card_Games/Freecell.py
A classic rendering of a jigsaw puzzle. Creates random puzzle from scratch, with good control over jigsaw piece appearance. You select puzzle number of pieces and select an image from your photo library. A Finish button will animate any remaining unplaced pieces. Uses class Piece in jigsaw_piece.py which could be used for other games.
Entry point: Board_Games/jig_saw_2.py
I have been experimenting with using Google Gemini AI to create some classic games. VERY impressive! See AI_games/readme.md for more details So far, created and fixed: Pool, Pong, Tank, Missile Command, Galaxians, Flappy Bird, and a couple of small demos
This is used to read text from an image, and also used to create crossword frame. Uses Apple UiKit for Ocr. Attempts made to read single letters from crossword grid, but not very successful. experiences crashes sometimes, hence each move is stored in numpy array for instant recovery.
Entry point : Word_Games/scanning/Ocr.py
A utility to produce custom PieceWord puzzles. This is a fixed size 21x15 crossword which is scrambled before storing. The utility allows looking up definitions and synonyms for each of the 'Across' words using both https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word (need user key) and https://www.thefreedictionary.com Clues can be selected from returned lists and subsequently edited. Resulting puzzle data can be copy/pasted into file piecewords.txt
Entry point : Word_Games/pieceword_create.py
A utility to produce custom crossword puzzles (British or Cryptic style) This is a fixed size 21x15 crossword which is scrambled before storing. The utility constructs a grid of defined size using random words. It allows looking up definitions and synonyms for each of the words using both https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word (need user key) and https://www.thefreedictionary.com Clues can be selected from returned lists and subsequently edited. Resulting puzzle data can be copy/pasted into file crossword_puzzles.txt No app created yet for solving the crossword as I am more interested in creating them than solving!
Crossword generation and word filling is contained in Word_Games/crossword_create.py
Entry point : Word_Games/general_crossword_create.py
Much of the working engines of these games were provided by other developers. I have added the gui front end for use on ios using Pythonista, along with any changes I saw fit.
All games have a Pause Menu button in top left corner with various options
Crossword filling with random words proved particularly challenging, but was mostly successful. I would be very interested in any improvements. Now using a modification of swordsmith (https://github.com/adamaaronson/swordsmith) with good results.
Some games, e.g. wordsearch, rely upon touch dragging to select direction and length.
Each game is based on a hierarchy of modules.
The lowest level, gui/gui_scene.py, handles the screen drawing and other graphics
gui/gui_interface is the user interface level. Many functions simply call the lower level functions.
Word_Games/Letter_games.py is used as a base class for many of the crossword type games.