greed has a lot of fans out there; I have to be honest and say that my reaction is a little less animated than theirs.
Not that I dislike number games, or that I can’t understand it.
It has all the right moves: a simple premise, obvious controls, plenty of color.
It just doesn’t really grab me.
My own opinion aside, greed works by moving a highlighted symbol in any direction, to a distance determined by the first number you strike. Moving over a number removes it from the board.
The object obviously then, is to erase as much of the board as possible, before becoming trapped and unable to complete a move. You get a score for your efforts.
Numerologists (but not numismatologists) will enjoy this, for its complexity and implications.
And I can imagine where a sudoku fan might likewise find greed intriguing.
I leave it to them, and to you, to try. 😉
If you want to try some new console stuff (games and applications) , please try (Debian links, but you can compile then on any distro, sure arch linux has these on AUR) :
Scribble – Scrabble clone
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/scribble
Omega-rpg – A hard to play RPG
http://packages.debian.org/sid/games/omega-rpg
Pytris – Tetris clone
http://packages.debian.org/sid/games/pytris
Zec – Empire client
http://packages.debian.org/sid/games/zec info http://www.wolfpackempire.com/
Pinfo – An ncurses Info and man viewer with lynx-like keys and hyperlink support even on man pages
http://packages.debian.org/sid/pinfo
Ttyrec – terminal recorder
http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttyrec
Sillypoker – Poker on the console
http://packages.debian.org/sid/sillypoker
Zomg – libre.fm music client
http://packages.debian.org/sid/zomg
Vlock – Console locker
http://packages.debian.org/sid/vlock
Konwert – on-the-fly character converter. For example, to play nethack with IBM graphics on the terminal (Yes, you read it right 😉 )
telnet nethack.alt.org | konwert cp437-utf8
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