Greek Squares is a game of logic and deduction. It has 10 different puzzle "layouts", 3 of which are standard Sudoku puzzles (9x9, 12x12, and 16x16). The other 7 layouts use irregularly shaped tiles, which provide more interesting deductions than are possible in standard Sudoku puzzles. The goal is to place one of each of the numbers into each row, column and tile. Each puzzle is guaranteed to have one and only one solution. The game places some numbers for you at the start of the puzzle. Using those (and the knowledge that there can be only one of each number in each row, column and tile) you remove possibilities from the puzzle until you can place numbers where they must be located. The game also supports entering the clues from standard 9x9 and 16x16 Sudoku puzzles as they appear in newspapers and magazines so that you can solve them on the computer rather than with pencil and paper. The game also lets you print out the puzzles for solving by pencil when you're away from your computer. The game includes tens of thousands of different puzzles, enough to keep you busy until you go crazy from seeing squares...

ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE FILES (LOCALIZATION)

Greek Squares can be "localized". Almost all of the text used in the menus and dialogs are stored in a separate ASCII text file, and the Help screens are stored in another ASCII text file. These files can be translated to other languages (English and Danish are currently included with the game). The Danish translations were done by Michael Madsen. Below are the other available translations that have been done after the release of the game. To use them, you will need to download and run the desired language installation file. The default folder for the game is C:\EKS\GS, and the language files are stored in the LANGUAGE sub-folder. The self-extracting ZIP files (EXE files) include the LANGUAGE sub-folder, so you just need to specify where the game is installed (if different than the default).

1) Download the desired language installation file.
2) Run the downloaded installation file.
3) If necessary, change the installation path if you installed the game in a different location.
4) Click the UNZIP button to install the files.
5) Run the game, and click on the Player menu, then on the Language sub-menu.
6) Select the desired language from the available lists for "strings" (menus and dialogs) and Help, then click OK.
7) Due to a bug in the program, some strings may not display properly until you exit the game and restart it, but will work fine from that point on.

The available translation languages are:

Deutsch (German) - strings only, no help, from Stephan Schmid
Svenska (Swedish) - strings only, no help, from Tom Törnroos

If you're interested in translating the strings or help into another language, see the Keys, Toolbar, and The Menus Help screen, which has a section that discusses this subject. Also, there are comments at the beginning of the STR_language.TXT and HLP_language.TXT files that describe the format.

KINT Interpreter Source Code

If you're interested in the KINT interpreter source codes (which are mentioned on the Help page about porting the game to non-Microsoft OS's) see the KINT web page. This will NOT be of interest to you, I suspect, unless you're a programmer.

A 32-bit version of MS Windows (such as Win 9x, Me, 2000, NT, XP, etc) or something able to emulate that environment.

Minimum of 64 Mbytes of RAM

14 Mbytes of disk space for the shareware version.
30 Mbytes of disk space for the licensed version (much of this is additional image sets, which can be deleted if you wish to conserve disk space).

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