schuay/picmi-legacy

Picmi is a free desktop puzzle game for Linux that bundles together two classic time-killers: Picross and Minesweeper. If you've ever wanted to play either of these without digging through old Windows installations or ad-filled websites, this gives you a clean, offline alternative. The Picross side challenges you to fill in a grid to reveal a hidden picture, using numbers along the edges as clues for which cells to color. The Minesweeper side is the familiar game of flagging hidden mines on a board based on numbered hints. Both games generate puzzles randomly, so you can pick whatever size and difficulty you want and always have a fresh challenge. The game also keeps track of your stats and high scores. This is for anyone who plays puzzle games to unwind. The Picross mode has a couple of nice touches that make it feel less fiddly than older versions: numbers grey out when you've solved that part of the puzzle, and the mouse "locks" when you drag so you don't accidentally scribble across the wrong row or column. There's even a strict mode that turns off hints if you want to test your logic. The Minesweeper mode has one standout feature: every board is guaranteed to be solvable through reasoning alone, so you'll never hit that infuriating situation where you just have to guess. Being an open-source project under the GPL license, it's built by hobbyists for hobbyists. It's a small project, but it trades flashy graphics for the kind of thoughtful, quality-of-life details that matter once you actually start playing.