greed: Alluring to some

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.

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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. 😉

2 thoughts on “greed: Alluring to some

  1. Ander GM

    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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