Delphiforfun.org Website Review

 If you benefit from the website,  in terms of knowledge, entertainment value, or something otherwise useful, consider making a donation via PayPal  to help defray the costs.  (No PayPal account necessary to donate via credit card.)  Transaction is secure. If you shop at AMAZON anyway,  consider using this link.  executable version of about  75 of the 200+ programs from the site, mostly those I particularly liked or thought would be of widest interest for non-programmers.  The file is rather large, about 20mb.  That's OK -  the executable version for any puzzle or  game you find here is available for do*nload.  Just scroll down to the bottom may require an unzipper program unless you are running Win XP or later.  Here's a link to a free one.  JUNE 18, 2018:  We have family of puzzles based on placing letters in a grid with restrictions on placement in relation to othter Place 5 copies of the letters in the word FRUIT in a 5x5 grid with no letter appearing more than once in any row, column, or diagonal. Four This is puzzle named 5x5 Fruit in the saved puzzles list for you to load and solve (or allow the program to solve it for youJ). Here's another MENSA Calendar puzzle from earlier this month. It can be tough to solve because there is  only one letter arrangement that satisfies the 4 placement rules, but 40,319 incorrect arrangements!  There are hints that help both the user and the program solve it, as  This program lets you remove matchsticks by clicking.  The objective is to remove the smallest possible number of matchsticks It finally happened - someone found a better solution for the 4x4 grid than my program thought possible.    How Many Squaes Version 2 a reward offered for a solution that beats by revised estimates!   MAY 18, 2018:  Cut List shows woodworkers how to cut a set of parts from a set of available stock.  This program creates  diagram showings the stock pieces and how the required parts may be efficiently cut from them.  A 2 line update today changed part