Puzzler
| Filename | puzzler-103.hqx |
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Puzzler is a 1993 Macintosh sliding-tile picture puzzle by David MacLachlan. Its hook is that any image you can open in a picture viewer can be diced up into a puzzle, with grid size used as a difficulty dial - a small grid for a quick solve, a denser one for a long evening with a familiar image.
Bring your own picture
Rather than ship a fixed gallery, Puzzler lets you convert any picture viewer file into a puzzle. The source image becomes the goal state, and the tiles are scrambled from there.
Grid as difficulty
Difficulty is controlled by changing the grid size. Coarser grids produce a handful of large tiles; finer grids fragment the picture into many smaller pieces and a much longer solve.
A color-depth gotcha
The author warns that switching the monitor's color depth while a puzzle is active will crash the game. Thousands of colors is the recommended setting before you start a session.
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