Hot Potatoes Home Page News - 25/01/2011 A minor update for Java HotPot 6.1 has been released (version 6.1.0.5) to solve a bug in calculating the size of gaps in JCloze for non-Roman characters. The Windows edition of Hot Potatoes has not been updated. Get it from Downloads . Hot Potatoes is now freeware. The complete version of the programs is now available for free, from the Downloads section below. The free version of Hot Potatoes for Windows is version 6.3, and the Java version is 6.1. Quandary , our other authoring tool for creating Web-based action mazes, is also now free. We no longer provide any technical support for Hot Potatoes or Quandary. 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 Hot Potatoes for Linux users running Wine (version 6.3). This is a zip file containing the folder structure of the Windows version of Hot Potatoes. You can extract this to create the HotPot program folder without running the setup program if you prefer. Download Java Hot Potatoes: Download Java Hot Potatoes which will run on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or any computer running a Java Virtual Machine. To install and run Java Hot Potatoes on Mac OS X: Download the file javahotpot61.zip from the link