What is Lights Out?

Lights Out was a handheld electronic puzzle game, released by Tiger Toys in 1995. The game consisted of a 5 by 5 grid of buttons containing lights. At the start of a game, a pattern of lights would be switched on. Pressing the buttons would toggle its light and the four adjacent lights on and off. The state of diagonal neighbours wouldn't be affected. The goal of the game was to switch off all of the lights.

What is KLightsOut?

KLightsOut is an implementation of Lights Out for the KDE desktop. KLightsOut expands the old Lights Out gameplay with larger boards, more states and holes in the board.

How do you play?

Lights are toggled by pressing the left mouse button on them.

  • Clicking the right mouse button will reset the current puzzle.
  • When all the lights have been turned off a new puzzle will be generated.

    • Downloads

    KLightsOut 0.2 (2007-12-16)
    klightsout_0.2-1_i386.deb Kubuntu 7.04 x86 debian package.
    klightsout_0.2-1_amd64.deb Kubuntu 7.04 x86 debian package.
    klightsout-0.2.tar.gz Source package.

    Screenshots

    KLightsOut 0.2, Sunday 16th December 2007
    KLightsOut 0.1, Saturday 4th August 2007

    Links

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(game) Wikipedia article on the game.
    http://www.haar.clara.co.uk/Lights/ [website description]
    http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/lights.htm [website description]
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/klightsout Sourceforge project page.

    Last updated : 2008-01-03

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