Switch

Braingame with 9 buttons

You have to colour the nine fields back to the way they were at the beginning (this means green in the middle and red in the rest), after the computer changed them accidentally.
The fields will change their colour (a bunch at a time) from red to green and vice versa when you click on them with the mouse.

The idea came from any computer magazine. But I don't remember which one or who the author was.
I wrote it in Delphi to practice the use of its components. And, to get familiar with the Qt library I finally ported it to Linux.

Usage:

Choose 'Spiel' / 'Neues Spiel' in the menu to make the program mix the fields. This is done by 'clicking' on fields just like a player would. You can select the number of clicks in order to determine the difficulty level.

Try to colour the fields back to the way they were at the beginning in as few clicks as possible. The mouse cursor shows which fields will change their colour at a click on the selected field.
The program will count your clicks and give you a result message at the end, rating your skilness.

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Downloading:

Switch is Freeware.
There are versions for MS-16-bit-Windows (Vers.1.0, 106 kB; Win3.x), for MS-32-bit-Windows (Vers.1.0, 111 kB; Win9x/NT/2K; upx compressed) and for Linux (Vers.1.0, 31kB; Linux 2.x, Qt 2.2, libc.so.6, ld-linux.so.2).
There is no handbook or online help available at this time.

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Warranty:

There is no warranty for the program.
The program is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary serving, repair or correction.
In no event will the author be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other software), even if the author or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
You accept the above by using the program.
Do not use the program in states where the above is against law.

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