News - 2022-03-11
- The downloads for Hot Potatoes version 6 have all been removed. This is because that version has an obsolete facility for uploading files to the old hotpotatoes.net service, which no longer exists, and we would like to encourage all users to move to version 7 as soon as possible.
- A minor update to Hot Potatoes (version 7.0.3.0) has been released. This removes references to the HTML non-breaking-space entity which is no longer defined in HTML5.
- Agnès Simonet has released new versions of her excellent Hot Potatoes add-ons, along with those originally written by Michael Rottmeier, for version 7 of Hot Potatoes. You can find them at http://hpaddons.free.fr/.
- Hot Potatoes 7 was first released in 2019. The source files are not compatible with version 6, though,
so if you have custom source files for version 6, you will need to rewrite them for version 7.
We are now working on an updated version of Quandary, which is available for pre-testing.
What is Hot Potatoes?
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer,
jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.
Downloads
Download Hot Potatoes for Windows from here:
- Hot Potatoes 7.0 installer (Hot Potatoes version 7.0.3.0 for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 as well as Linux under Wine).
When you first start up Hot Potatoes, it will ask you for your user name. This name is stored on your computer, and not sent to anyone; it will be inserted into your exercises to identify you as the author. You must provide a user name before you can use all the features of Hot Potatoes.
Other software from the same authors
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