Talk:Sudoku/links to consider
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[edit] External Links
A collection of links to resources about the popular puzzle Sudoku.
[edit] Sudoku Forums / Boards
- The Dutch Sudoku Forum
- Sudoku Forum for Scandinavia
- The daily-sudoku.com Forum
- Programmers Forum
- The su-doku.net Forum
- The sudoku.com Forum — The original
- Sudoku Forums
- Daily Sudoku Forum
- Sudoku and Kakuro forum
- Sudoku Forum Sudokuaholics Anonymous
[edit] Puzzles online
- Free Sudoku Free online flash Sudoku puzzles
- play online Sudoku play Millions of Sudoku puzzles online free
- Extreme hard puzzle collection(Free) — Get very hard Sudoku puzzles from this collection. New puzzles are added frequently.
- Free Daily Sudoku — Play Sudoku online, print puzzles, or get free daily Sudoku puzzles by email or RSS.
- Braingle Sudoku — Free sudoku puzzles written in Flash. Can track your high score.
- Number-Logic — New puzzles to print or solve online everyday. Very nice layout.
- Free Sudokus — Unlimited free Sudokus. Solver and printable versions too.
- [1] — Play Sudoku at different levels
- Killer Sudoku Solver & Generator — Killer Sudoku (Samunamupure) software. Also Daily Killer Sudoku puzzle.
- Sudoku Samurai (Gattai-5) puzzles — Sudoku Samurai puzzles for download and print.
- Online Sudoku — A open source javascript version of the game.
- Sudoku Holland — every day more than 280 sudoku links
- Sudoku On friko.net — Free Online Game Generator, Solver And Helper.
- Su-Doku.net — Daily sudoku puzzle, using Sudoku Mini Quest.
- SudokuPlus, Free Sudokus with different levels and its solutions.
- Free Daily Sudoku Puzzle Daily free puzzle, tutorial, rules and strategy.
- Sudoku Place — daily puzzles, progressively more difficult from Monday to Sunday, with archives
- The Daily Sudoku Puzzle — a new puzzle every day, including archives
- Asymmetrical Sudoku — Solve asymmetrical sudokus online, includes generator and solver.
- BrainBashers Daily Sudoku — Sudoku from BrainBashers
- My Daily Sudoku — a new puzzle every day, progressively harder from Monday to Sunday
- PrintSudoku.com — Free online Printing Sudoku's in pdf. 6 new every day.
- Sudoku — Free online Sudoku
- Sudoku Fun — with competitive ranking
- Sudoku Online — Generate unlimited puzzles with many options to help solve
- Sudoku online game — Sudoku at Gamedesire.com
- SudokuMeister's Free Daily Puzzles — free daily puzzles (easy/medium/hard). Note, you need to download a Sudoku program to run the games.
- Sue's Sudoku — Sudoku in color
- Vegard Hanssen's Sudoku Archive — millions of Sudoku, categorized by 8 difficult levels, geometry and methods needed to solve the puzzle. Also includes variations from 2x2 to 25x25, irregular boxes, diagonals, disjoint groups, Wordoku and combinations of these. The site also includes info on how to solve the puzzles.
- Web Sudoku — billions of puzzles
- Sudokuhints — five graded puzzles from mild to fiendish every day
- Sudoku Toplog Daily Sudoku, Daily Wordoku, Daily Mini Sudoku, Daily Mini Wordoku, Daily Color Sudoku. So also a lot of Sudokus for kids. However, it's written in Dutch.
- Sudoku@paulspages — Online generator/player/solver with print version, puzzle gallery and how-to-solve section. No plugins/downloads required.
- Sudoku-san — Free daily graded puzzles, Online Assistant and Logical Solver
- Goobix.com's Sudoku Online puzzle, with Javascript-based implementation.
- Play-Sudoku.de — There is a new portal where you can play sudoku online. Its available in German, Russian and English.You can play 3 levels. And you can register for free with the possibility to save your unsolved sudokus. Members get points for every solved sudoku. Best members and best countries are shown on the page.
- SudokusWeb.com Free daily Sudokus to print or play online.
- Sudoku Puzzles Community of sudoku players. Play online or print them out for free!
- Sudoku @ squobble.com Online sudoku puzzles in Flash featuring a random puzzle generator with 1.000.000.000.000.000 possible puzzles.
- Sudoku Flash Quality sudoku flash site based with a twist on the million dollar pixel homepage idea.
[edit] Puzzles via RSS
[edit] Tutorials and Info
- Sudoku International History, Instructions, Versions and many Sudoku in 5 languages.
- Top 50 Sudoku — The top 50 sudoku sites on the Internet.
- SudokuPlus Top, Top Sudoku Site.
- Tutorial at Puzzle Japan (Macromedia Flash required)
- Sudoku techniques — overview
- Dan Rice's Sudoku Blog — Programmer's blog about techniques for creating and solving puzzles, including hard puzzles
- Let's Make Sudoku! — Explains step-by-step how to make puzzles.
- Tutorials at Sudoku Addict — Step by step example on how to solve puzzles
- The Heebie Su Doku Site– A content-packed site featuring everything to do with Su Doku
- The Sudoku Grandmaster — Sudoku humor
- Daily Sudoku — Daily Sudoku to your mailbox
- How to solve sudoku — Step by step tutorial from basic crosshatching to complex patterns.
- Sudoku Step by Step Tutorial A tutorial solving a puzzle from start to finish.
- Sudoku Master Blog — Many advanced techniques explained with full worked solutions and diagrams
[edit] Solvers and helpers
- Smart Sudoku Helper — free online helper - 'step by step' method (2 fields per step)
- The Definitive Sudoku Helper — free online helper (not solver): shows options for each square, and allows you to backtrack, restart, or save; requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
- Sudoku Little Helper — free online helper
- Sudoku Puzzle Game and Solver Sudoku Puzzle Game and Solver
- Sudoku On friko.net — Free Online Game Generator, Solver And Helper.
- Ultimate Free Online Java Applet Sudoku Solver — with animation and saving
- Mobile Sudoku Solver Find the solution to any Sudoku puzzle instantly! For Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, and Sagem phones
- Extensive rule-based Sudoku solving and visual hinting engine
- SudokuMeister — Play and solve Sudoku puzzles on your computer
- More than 50 Free Sudoku Solvers — online & downloads
- Free Online Sudoku Solver — Simply type in the sudoku and click solve :-)
- Captain Sudoku, the Israeli Sudoku Master
- Java Sudoku solver and generator, under the GNU General Public License
- The Su Doku Assistant — Freeware puzzle maker and solver
- Flash Sudoku helper (3ko), under the GNU General Public License
- Online HTML solver
- Goldstone Solver and Helper Includes 10,000 puzzles
- Mindgames Sudoku (freeware) Solve and create your own Sudoku puzzles. Comes with a randomly generated set of 20,000 puzzles.
- Sudokuhints Online Javascript Solver/Hinter/Workspace Includes 5 daily graded puzzles
- SudokuSolver (free) A tool for solving sudoku puzzles. Can give hints and leave the rest of the fun to the user.
- Into Sudoku (free) The Sudoku program generates puzzles every level witch can be printed or can be solved on the computer.
[edit] Sudoku for Macintosh
- Su Doku Live — shareware puzzle generator (4 levels), solver, helper, network play (cooperative and competitive), player notes, pen & pencil tools, builder, etc
- MacSudoku — shareware game generator (with two difficulty levels), solver, and helper for Mac OS X v10.2 or higher
- Sudoku Companion — shareware helper for Mac OS X v10.4; daily online puzzles
- The Sudoku Susser — freeware solver and helper for Mac OS X with puzzle OCR and pattern highlighting
- Sudoku Widget — freeware Sudoku dashboard widget for Mac OS X v10.4
- Su Doku Master — Solver and generator for Mac OS X
[edit] Sudoku for your mobile phone
- Super Doku Unlimited new games on five different levels for Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsoon, Samsung, Siemens, and Sagem phones (Worldwide)
- Mobile Sudoku Solver Find the solution to any Sudoku puzzle instantly! For Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, and Sagem phones
- mSudoku — Sudoku for Java enabled mobiles, free demo (Australia only)
- Sudoku for Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, SonyEricsson & other mobile phones (Worldwide)
- SuDoku for a wide variety of phones — Free online version (Worldwide)
- getjar.com — Sudoku from GetJar (J2ME version)
- Mobile Sudoku from The Times Newspaper (by Teazel Ltd) (UK only)
- Mobile Sudoku from Teazel Ltd (UK only)
- Sudoku for the mobile phone (UK only)
- SudokuME — free, fully featured Sudoku game supporting downloadable puzzles
- Kicking Software — SmartPhone Sudoku for Microsoft Mobiles
- More Mobile Sudokus — Sudokus on the Go
- JMeSudoYu — Free puzzle generator / solver for j2me phones (worldwide)
- Baboon's Sudoku — Free Sudoku Puzzle game for any J2ME compliant gadget (worldwide)
[edit] Sudoku for Palm
- LogicIX 1.1 $7.95 from myongrang: Sudoku since 2003
- Numberz $9.95 from Jampaq: color, pencilmarks, crosshatching, generator, solver, hires
- Single Number Generates Sudoku puzzles in 3 difficulty levels and 128 symmetry combinations
- Sudoku Free, from Andrew Gregory: color, pencilmarks, generator, solver, explains solution logic.
- Sudoku $9.95 from Astraware: color, pencilmarks (numbers or dots), generator, solver, wallpaper
- Sudoku Addict $14.95 from Tealpoint: color, voice, pencilmarks
- Sudoku Mobile $6.99 from Norusoft: color, generator, solver.
- Sudoku One 0.8 $9.95 from OneSir: color, 1 million preset puzzles, pencilmarks, many languages
- Sulite One 0.1 Free from OneSir: color, 150 preset puzzles
- Top SuDoKu $8.00 from NogaSoft, color, generator, solver, symbols.
- Zingles $8.99 from Zing Magic: color, pencilmarks, crosshatching, generator, solver, symbols
[edit] Sudoku for Pocket PC
- Sudoku game, generator and solver with variants
- Sudoku with innovative puzzle generation, play, and hint / solve features
- Sudoku for Pocket PC
- Free Sudoku for Pocket PC
- Pocket Sudoku — Quality puzzles with many play & solve options
[edit] Sudoku for Linux
- crbaker's Sudoku — freeware player and solver by Chris Baker (Windows, Pocket PC and Linux)
- GNUDoku — Free puzzle generator and solver, subject to the GPL.
[edit] Sudoku for Windows
- AB Sudoku — freeware. Generates medium to hard puzzles. Includes solver and Moves history
- Simple Sudoku — freeware puzzle maker and solver
- 10,000 Puzzles with Solutions — Goldstone Sudoku Software
- SudokuMeister — Play and solve Sudoku puzzles on your computer
- Sudoku Works — puzzle maker and solver, 9x9 and 16x16 puzzles
- SadMan Software Sudoku — Create and solve Sudoku puzzles using humanistic techniques.
- The Su Doku Assistant — Freeware puzzle maker and solver
- SudokuSolver (free) A tool for solving sudoku puzzles. Can give hints and leave the rest of the fun to the user.
- Sudoku Generator (free) The Sudoku program generates puzzles every level witch can be printed or can be solved on the computer.
- Pure Sudoku — A uniquely styled Sudoku game. Includes a freeware version and a shareware with more features.
- Sexy Sudoku — An erotic edition of Sudoku.
[edit] Source code
- c# source
- C source and commentary for a robust solver
- Solving Sudoku using constraint programming — can be modified for use with GNU Prolog
- No bells, no whistles, no X11; a C++ program that helps in solving Sudoku grids (v1.5, 18 August 2005)
- Excel-based helper / solver with fully-editable macro
- C source for fast solver identifies non-unique puzzles, and whether or not backtracking was required for solution
- Public domain C source for a puzzle solver and generator
- Link to Java Sourcecode for a fast puzzle solver
- ActionScript 2.0 Code Flash source about "SudokuPlus" by Stefano Corradi
[edit] Commercial
- Tribune Media Services Worldwide syndication of sudoku puzzles
- Sudoku Factory — a French agent distributing Sudoku puzzles
- Universal's Sudoku — a US agent distributing Sudoku puzzles
- Knight Features — a UK agent distributing Sudoku puzzles
- Labyrinth Games — a UK games and puzzle consultancy
- NumberPuzzles.com — rated number puzzles for publications and websites
- Web Sudoku Services — provides custom-made puzzles
- Sudoku-xls Commercial — graded word & number puzzles for publication
- SudokuMeister — Play and solve Sudoku puzzles on your computer
- Infinite Sudoku — generator on CD-ROM
- SadMan Software Sudoku — Create and solve Sudoku puzzles using humanistic techniques.
- Tarkus — a Spanish puzzlemaker distributing Sudoku
- Sudokuhints.com — free Sudoku puzzles for your newspaper with attribution. Also custom designs and layouts.
- Link to Sudoku Puzzle Game and Solver Sudoku Puzzle Game and Solver
- PeterFrank tv Worldwide syndication of classic sudoku puzzles and special Sudokus like Football Sudoku, Horoscope Sudoku, Poster Sudoku and more ...
[edit] Miscellaneous
- More than 290 Sudoku Links — Only Free Sudokus
- Essential Links to Sudoku — a list of just the more popular online Sudoku puzzles and resources
- Norsk Sudokuforum — Solvers' forum for Scandinavians; features threads about the most popular printed puzzles in Norway as well as general discussions about Sudoku.
- Sudoku Favos Everything about Sudoku
- Interactive designer for Sudoku — Interactive graphic design of Sudoku Software.
- Link to Sudoku Puzzle Game and Solver Sudoku Puzzle Game and Solver
[edit] Game
- Sudokuto - the Sudoku game Play the game (not puzzle) online, or learn how to play it everywhere.
- a permanent sudoku championship including different levels.