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When the CSE came out, my first color TI-BASIC game was Cookie Clicker +C, which is to date my most popular file on TICalc.

Almost 4 years later, my second color TI-BASIC game was Descent, which is unique in that it is cross-compatible with the older monochrome models.

Now, I am proud to introduce my third ever color TI-BASIC game, Picross!



For those who do not know what Picross is, Picross is a picture logic puzzle, and you must color or leave blank spaces in a grid according to numbers on the side to reveal a hidden picture. The Wikipedia page on Picross has some more information.

At the moment, it is only a demo, with the ability to view and solve a random puzzle of a random size. The numbers going across on the top and the side are supposed to represent the numbers for the current row and column. You may edit the grid with 2ND and ALPHA, and when you solve the puzzle, the game detects this and tells you.

Download here. Try it out!

Great game !
Good job

Oh, realy nice, I love that game.
Can you allow me to use your source code to try to make it in C?

Thanks! And go right ahead! I'd love to see how good this can be in C. Maybe you can add puzzles with more than one color?

Also, I have now implemented saving and restoring of your puzzle progress!


Download here.

Wow, with more than 1 color, that sould be a bit harder (only a bit )

Implementing it might be a challenge for you, but sometimes, I find the color puzzles easier to solve than the black and white ones!

Also, now navigating the grid is much faster, and a correctly colored row or column automatically gets its blank squares marked blank.



Download here.

But I don't understand why numbers are changing when you are moving the cursor?

The average Picross puzzle looks like this:

As you can see, there are numbers in each row and column, corresponding to the lengths of the groups of colored cells.
Because there's not that much space on the calculator's screen, I display the numbers for the current row on the top, and the numbers for the current column down the side. I had to cram it into the proper space somehow.

Oh ok, I understand, thank you

Bump.

Added a 30 minute timer, and time penalties.



Download here.