GNOME Sudoku
Gnome Sudoku is a logic game with a Japanese name that has recently exploded in popularity. Originally developed by Thomas Hinkle, now included in gnome-games. Gnome Sudoku is written in Python. GNOME Sudoku is meant to have as simple, unobstrusive an interface as possible while still providing features that make playing difficult Sudoku more fun.
Gnome Sudoku is a part of Gnome Games.
Screenshot of Gnome Sudoku
Features:
- The board and numbers automatically resize when you resize the window.
- The game is easily navigable from the keyboard -- you can use arrow keys to move around and then just type the number to fill in the board.
- The game is easily playable with the mouse. Clicking on a square will highlight it. Clicking on the square again will show you a grid with the numbers 1 through 9; you can just click on a number to choose it.
- You can automatically fill in the current square (to quickly fill in the last empty box in a row for example).
- You can click "hint" to show the numbers that are valid for the current square.
- You can add notes or "pencilmarks" to squares easily - just click in the square to select it, and then click in the upper or lower part of the square to type the note. (You can also type "n" for note if you're a keyboard-centric user).
- You can create "trackers" to automatically color certain entries a different color. You can then easily delete all numbers of a certain color (or delete all numbers that are not a certain color). This makes trail-and-error a much easier technique to use (this is heresy to some, I know, but can be quite helpful for difficult puzzles).
Saving, Printing
- All games are automatically saved when you quit so you don't have to worry about saving games. You can always come back to any game you've played.
- GNOME Sudoku automatically generates new puzzles in the background when you are getting low. You can also manually tell it to generate more puzzles if you want to create a large number of a particular kind of puzzle for printing of playing.
- Each game is assigned a "difficulty" score — its algorithm generally does a good job matching the difficulty rankings typically given by newspapers and websites. You can also see detailed difficulty information about how the computer solved the puzzle. You can select games by difficulty.
- If you like to play on paper, you can print games out. You can choose how many games you want to print per page and what difficulty of games you want to print: as a result, GNOME Sudoku can act a renewable Sudoku Book for you.
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