Poly Off 1.0.2

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Version	1.0.2
Category	Board Game

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Poly-Off is a solitaire board puzzle for the classic Macintosh, distributed via Info-Mac by STH at Penn State. The goal is deceptively simple: turn every piece on the board grey. Clicking a piece flips its color and the colors of some of its neighbors, with the affected pattern depending on the shape of the switch you press.Lights-Out Style PuzzlePoly-Off belongs to the Lights Out family of toggle puzzles. Each click ripples through a small neighborhood, so clearing the board requires planning sequences of moves whose side effects cancel out rather than just chasing individual squares.Variable Switch ShapesThe author notes that the changing-neighbor pattern depends on the shape of the switch on the clicked piece. Different switch shapes give the puzzle a polyomino flavor and let one ruleset generate a wide variety of board behaviors.Deeper Than It LooksThe release notes warn that the game is not as easy as it looks: even the easiest board has more than one million reachable states. Solving harder boards is closer to a search problem than a casual click-fest.DistributionPoly-Off 1.02 was uploaded to the Info-Mac Archive under game/brd as freeware, and it runs on classic 68k and early PowerPC Macs.