Comments on: Hooked on Sudoku

By: armando

armando — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:44:04 +0000

If you want to try out something new in sudoku, try shendoku, using the sudoku rules but playing two people, one against the other, like battleshipps. They have a free version to download at http://www.shendoku.com/sample.pdf . Anything else they are bringing out or they are working on you can find at http://www.shendoku.com or at they´r blog http://www.shendoku.blogspot.com . Have fun, I am. I specially like one slogan I heard about Shendoku: SUDOKU is like masturbation (on your own)…. SHENDOKU is like sex (it takes two).

By: crf

crf — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:05:58 +0000

Some variants are harder. Try these: –> http://www.sachsentext.de/en/
like sum sudoku, and skyscraper sudoku.
I found skyscraper especially tough. Sum sudoku is more fun.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:33:01 +0000

Cool! My wife got me hooked on Sudoku a few years ago, which led to me writing GNOME Sudoku. One note — I built in easy batch printing into GNOME Sudoku so you can make yourself a bunch to take with you when you’re going into a boring meeting or something. I used to always end up with requests for print outs before faculty meetings — you can print as many as you like to a page (I usually do 4 or 6) and you can make yourself a range of difficulties to bring with you (I sometimes like to start with easy ones I do quickly and go up to ones difficult enough that I know I won’t run out)

By: frob

frob — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:15:12 +0000

Elektor publish hexadoku and alphadoku versions on their web site.
Eg http://www.elektor.com/magazines/2007/june/hexadoku-june-2007.91914.lynkx

While typical sudoku takes 5 to 15 minutes, every hexadoku took about 2 hours and I don’t remember how long it takes for alphadoku =)

By: Paul W. Frields

Paul W. Frields — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:35:40 +0000

I packaged gnome-sudoku in Fedora back in FC5 when it hadn’t yet been subsumed into the GNOME Games collection, and loved it immediately. (I was already hooked on the paper-based puzzle game back then.) The software version has become a lot better in the intervening year-plus! My daughter (6) also loves playing it too, which works out well thanks to the adjustable difficulty level.

By: Ben Arnold

Ben Arnold — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:39:54 +0000

I’ve been there; I started Sudoku a couple of years ago and can’t stop, even today. Bought a book of them about three months ago, finished half of it while on holiday!

It surprises me how many people love it but (K)Mahjongg solitaire will always be my one

./b

By: David

David — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:18:33 +0000

I’ve been hooked on Sudoku for over a year now. Spent quite a bit of money on different books before I was got a sudoku handheld game for christmas. A nice three difficulties with the hard ones taking me about 10 minutes to complete (as I’m not that good). Has saved me quite a lot of money!