casse-tete

Description

This is casse-tete, a little game.

It runs under Linux/X-Window (it may work under other OSes, I don't know, just try, you'll probably need gcc thus).

Very easy to use, use the keyboard, key 'left', 'right' and 'space'. 'escape' to quit. I guess you'll find how to play with it when you'll use it.

The goal is to let all out to the right.

Enjoy.

Pictures

The initial state is like the followig picture.

[image: initial position]

The final state (the one you must reach) is like the following picture.

[image: final position]

Download

Daniel Gustafson (daniel@hobbit.se) let it work under SGI/Irix and fixed a little bug when you change the size of the window (by the way, this is not handled by the game, should it?), so here comes a new release. (Do make irix to compile it.)
casse-tete-1.3.tar.gz (12661 bytes). (august, 20th, 2001)
Chris Ellec (chris@linuxforkids.com) added the name of the program in top of the window (damned, I did not know the XStoreName function, what a shame!). Thanks to him.
casse-tete-1.2.tar.gz (12616 bytes). I removed the html subdir, absolutly useless, thus reducing the size of the tarball. (august, 4th, 2000)
Allister MacLeod (glamdring@mv3d.com) played a bit with casse-tete and found annoying the game did not tell the user when she won, so Allister did a little modification to the program.
casse-tete-patch.gz (1076 bytes). To use it, go in the directory where is the source, and do a "patch < casse-tete-patch" after you did a "gunzip casse-tete-patch.gz". Everything should be alright. (august, 1st, 2000)
casse-tete-modified.tar.gz is the new source tar gz, with all the modifications (14965 bytes) for those who don't like the diff stuff (and those who did not download the previous release). (august, 1st, 2000)
casse-tete.tar.gz (14698 bytes) (july, 31st, 2000)

Help/errors/the like

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any trouble, any suggestion, any comment.

Yes, the interface is ugly, but it's old stuff and I have other things to do.

In the real life

[image: Spin-Out, the game]

Ed Cranford sent me a link to the product shown above (I won't give any commercial link here, just dig the web to find it). casse-tete exists for real! (By the way, I guess it should not be very hard to build one by yourself.)

A quick search leads me to the following. This game was invented by William Keister. He was inspired by the Chinese rings (picture below). Go here (tested nov. 10, 2005) for some more infos. It appears that there is a trick to solve it faster.

[image: chinese rings]

Contact: sed@free.fr

Last update: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:10:13 +0200