# Manual de Klotski

## Introduccion

The Klotski application is a clone of the Klotski game. The objective is to move the patterned block to the area bordered by green markers.

Klotski was written by Lars Rydlinge (Lars.Rydlinge@HIG.SE).

Klotski is included in the gnome-games package, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version 2.12 of Klotski.

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found at this link, or in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, follow the directions in this document.

## Objective

The objective of Klotski is to move the patterned block to the green markers in as few moves as possible. You do this by moving the blocks one at a time with the mouse until you can get the patterned block to the markers.

### The winning move

The patterned block should be moved to the space bordered by the green markers.

## Playing Klotski

- gnotski-start

- gnotski-ui

- gnotski-new-game

- gnotski-moving

### To Start Klotski

You can start Klotski from the Applications menu by choosing Games Gnotski .

### The main window

When you start Klotski, the following window is displayed.

#### Klotski Start Up Window

Shows Klotski main window. Contains titlebar, menubar, game area and statusbar. Menubar contains Game and Help menus.

The Klotski window contains the following elements:

Menubar

- Game menu

- The game menu allows you to start new games, view the highest scores and quit the program.

Help menu

- The help menu allows you to view the documentation for Klotski

Game area

- The game area shows the blocks in the current game. You can drag the blocks around with the mouse as described in gnotski-moving.

Statusbar

- The statusbar shows how many moves you have taken so far.

### Starting a new game

Use the Game menu to start a new game. The items Next Puzzle and Previous Puzzle allows you to navigate the puzzles sequentially. Each puzzle belongs to one of the three categories found in the submenus named HuaRong Trail, Challenge Pack and Skill Pack.In these submenus, each puzzle name refers to a game scenario.

#### Starting a game

To start a game, choose Game [category] [game scenario]

### Moving blocks

To move a block, click on it, hold down the mouse button and drag it to its new location. You cannot move the green blocks or the block that borders the game. You cannot move a block to a space already occupied by another block, with the exception that you may move the patterned block through the green blocks to win.

## Autors

Klotski was written by Lars Rydlinge (lars.rydlinge@hig.se). This manual was written by Andrew Sobala. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, follow the directions in this document.

## Licéncia

This program and tile artwork is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is included as an appendix to the GNOME Users Guide. You may also obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License from the Free Software Foundation by visiting their Web site or by writing to

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