PW5 Kindle puzzle collection (HF)

[kbarni]

Hello Kindle Community!

Here's what you've been always waiting for! And it's not even an April 1st joke!Please enjoy...

Simon Tatham's Puzzle collection ported to Kindle

Current release: April 1st 2025

(Currently contains the binaries for the HF architecture, i.e. firmware 5.16.2+)

Enjoy a collection of 25 simple - but hard, addictive puzzle games that are well suited for the Kindle...if you ever have enough of reading.

Installation

Copy the contents of the attached zip file in the extensions folder of your jailbroken Kindle. The games will appear in KUAL.

Instructions

The "About" window in the Help menu contains brief instructions how to play each game.

For more detailed instructions, visit Simon Tatham's homepage

Don't forget that there are variants (harder/easier) in the "Type" menu.

Note: some games are omitted from the original collection. The reasons are: They need color display, keyboard or right mouse click.
I will try to implement the keyboard option, so some more games will be added to the collection.

Source code here: https://github.com/kbarni/kindlepuzzles

Credits

All credits go to Simon Tatham and the original authors.

Homepage (with online and downloadable versions and instructions): https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Special mention to brianinmaine who created a port of these games 12 years ago

Feedback is always welcome!

[Piecho]

Thank you for porting it to HF, but it does crash on my PW12 running 5.17. After selecting any games from the list KUAL launcher is closed and game do not start.

[kbarni]

Do you have kterm installed? You can try to launch it trhough that app.

cd /mnt/extensions/puzzles
./pegs

(or other game)

Can you copy the result?

[Piecho]

Edit: It works using the terminal, I was in the wrong directory before edit this post. Looks like it freezes after I tried to restart the game, I cannot close it now. Have to restart the device.

Still, I was not able run it using KUAL.

[kbarni]

To avoid blocking the Kindle, you can first enable remote access using usbnetlite, then launch the app through ssh (same commands as above). To kill the app, just press ^C or from a new ssh session give a kill command, e.g.:

killall pegs

Can you post the outputs?

I hope I will get other feedbacks to see if it's working, and if not, what could be the problem.

[Piecho]

Thank you, but I don't have time for debugging right now unfortunately. I never used usbnetlite before.
If I manage to give it a try eventually, I will post you.

[Aadvik5951]

It does not work through KUAL. With kterm it says "Permission Denied".
Please help me. I want to have fun playing the puzzles.

[supermusti7]

Is this open source? I would like to help add the right mouse-click so we can play more puzzles.

[kbarni]

Originally Posted by supermusti7

Is this open source? I would like to help add the right mouse-click so we can play more puzzles.

Yep. I just need to clean it up a little and I'll put it on Github.

[Aadvik5951]

Originally Posted by Aadvik5951

It does not work through KUAL. With kterm it says "Permission Denied".
Please help me. I want to have fun playing the puzzles.

Please help me.

[kbarni]

Try this:

cd /mnt/us/extensions/puzzles
chmod +x *
./slant

Does it work now ?

[kbarni]

Originally Posted by supermusti7

Is this open source? I would like to help add the right mouse-click so we can play more puzzles.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/kbarni/kindlepuzzles

[PigDan]

I'm excited to see what you talented coders can do with apps such as this. Thanks for the stuff y'all put out there to the community. This is neat. I do wish we could have some blog posts somewhere online in the future or maybe just an up-to-date forum post here that'll compile all the working apps for the current Kindle versions. Browsing these individual forum threads is a bit of a difficult task in terms of searching accessibility. I'm guessing that a lot of extensions won't work right now, from what I've seen so far? Well, at least we have one more here! And that's a pretty significant gap of time between updates, it's good to see people picking up the torch over a decade later. Running puzzles on an e-ink reader seems like something you'd do 15 years ago or so (and sometimes I guess the device manufacturers would actually include the Games on the device) when the tech was new but I wish it was the norm, I could play Scrabble on it or something, lol

Edit: I tested it and I can report that none of the games boot on the Kindle Oasis 3 (2019) model. If you need testers I can give it a shot. All I can say for now is that after selecting a game in the KUAL menu, it just goes straight to the Kindle home menu screen.