Chapter 13. Playing games
A Fedora installation includes a selection of games by default. You can also select additional game packages during or after installation. To install new games on your Fedora system, refer to
Chapter 17, Managing software
. You can find more information about games for Fedora at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Games. For more information about the games in this list, refer to the
Help
menu within each individual game.
13.1. Default GNOME games
Many GNOME games are not installed by default from the Live-CD or the DVD. If you do not have access to the Internet, you can use the Fedora DVD to install them, either using the
PackageKit application
or on the command line by using
Yum
. Refer to
Chapter 17, Managing software
for help installing new software. Be sure to also install the separate
Help Files for gnome-games
which provides the instruction for playing each game.
With the
Help Files for gnome-games
installed, use the menus to navigate to
System > Help > Games
to view a list of the available games. There is a brief description along with a link to details about playing each game. The detailed instructions can also be found from the
Help > Contents
menu in each game.
The games included in the GNOME games pack include:
-
Aisle Riot Solitaire
-
A collection of dozens of solitaire games
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Blackjack
-
The classic casino card game
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Chess
-
Play the classic board game against the computer or a friend
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Five or More
-
A version of the popular Color Lines game
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Four-in-a-Row
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A four-in-a-row game played against the computer or another human opponent
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FreeCell Solitaire
-
Another huge collection of solitaire games
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GNOME Falling Blocks
-
Create a complete horizontal row of blocks which will disappear
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Hearts
-
A trick-taking card game. Try to gain as few point cards as possible
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Iagno
-
A Reversi-like disk flipping game
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Klotski
-
A group of sliding block puzzles
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Mahjongg
-
A tile-matching game with many variations
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Mines
-
A clone of a popular puzzle game
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Nibbles
-
A worm or snake game
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Robots
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The classic game of out-of-control robots
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Same GNOME
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A puzzle game involving the strategic removal of groups of marbles
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Sudoku
-
The popular logic puzzle
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Tali
-
A poker game played with dice
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Tetravex
-
A simple tile-matching game
