Hi, short story: A friend had a game on his Amiga a decade ago. He didn`t let me play cause I might break his record. So I decided to code it myself. Now I found my source again and compiled it ( written in Java ) and put it on my homepage The Game. Can you please test it, and say if you have seen it somewhere else? Strangely.. I cannot see this game when searching with google. I am realy interested why this game is mentioned nowhere. How to play: Goal is to make the maximum number of Lines. You do that by connecting 4 points which then form a 5 points Line. (click start point-> click endpoint) If you happen to draw a line onto 5 existing points, you get a bonus point that you can place with middle mouse button.

Never seen a game like this. It's .. weird.

Also, can you actually make a game over without filling the whole field?
It'd help, if the cursor would indicate a possible move with mouse over.

I don't get it. I ended up randomly clicking points until something happened.

Could you explain it in a bit more detail?

EDIT: It seems that the general rule is that a line is made of four bold dots and one light dot, but that doesn't always seem to work, so there must be some other constraints on legal moves.

[Edited by - Sandman on July 1, 2009 5:14:41 AM]

Yeah, you take 5 points in a row. At least 4 of them have to be bold (if 5 are bold you get the middle-click-make-a-bold-point bonus). Also, no lines can exist already between any of your 5 points.
I got this while trying to figure it out ;)


[Edited by - Hodgman on July 1, 2009 6:29:13 AM]

@Endurion: The source is free, since the game is not originally by myself. You just have to go one folder up on my homepage. I didn`t fill the whole place. The highes score was around 94 Lines. I don't want to give more help. If you are lost, you can look at the side and there is a display of one of the available starting points.

@Hodgman: Thanks for explaining more. My english is not the best comming from germany. And since I made the rules in javacode I have a problem to describe in words whats crystal clear to me :)

I think I found a bug - sometimes I when click a point but then click again on the same point, it draws a short line like this:
o o-O-o o
I clicked on "O" twice, and that short line appeared.

This is a fun little puzzle by the way :)

Funny game but it's really time consuming.

150 points.