Application description

Sortout is a simple and enjoyable board game. The object is to bring together pieces of the same color.

Game Field Game Field is a square 6x6 without corner cells. At the beginning internal square 4x4 is randomly filled with different pieces. There can be 8 kinds of pieces, each of them has a different color.

Moves

You can move a piece to an empty cell. After this the old place of the moved piece will be filled by the next piece. Next piece is determined randomly before each move and can be seen to the right of the Game Field.

Object

Bring together 3 or more pieces of the same kind (each piece of the group have to be vertically or horizontally adjacent with at least one other piece of the same group). After this happens, identical pieces are removed from Game Field. If a whole row or column of the internal square becomes empty it will be randomly filled with new pieces.

Score

• -1 point - a move to the side of Game Field;
• 3 points - a group of 3 identical pieces bringed together;
• 5 points - a group of 4 identical pieces bringed together;
• 8 points - a group of 5 identical pieces bringed together;
• 12 points - a group of 6 identical pieces bringed together.

Minimum requirements:

• For iPAQ 914
  • iPAQ 914 2003 Second Edition or greater
  • 530K free memory
• For iPAQ 914
  • iPAQ 914 5.0 or greater
  • QVGA screen
  • 520K free memory

Main features:

• Supports QVGA and VGA portrait and landscape orientation. Square screens are also supported
• Three game types:
  • Simple Game. Play without limits just for fun or practice.
  • Time Limited Game. Check this option to play with the specified Time Limit. Best scores will be included in Best Scores table.
  • Score Limited Game. Check this option to play with the specified Score Limit. Best times will be included in Best Times table.
• Game sound
• Play modes:
  • iPAQ 914 version: tapping or keyboard
  • iPAQ 914 version: 5-way navigation pad or keypad
• Best Scores table for each of the time limited game types
• Best Times table for each of the score limited game types
• Statistics for each of the time limited and score limited game types

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