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they have the best sudoku games I could find

twiceaday 4y ago
If you like Sudoku, check out Sudoku + extra rules. This channel solves them daily, which I really enjoy watching, but they also have a link in the description to a great website where you can solve it yourself, for free. They are all hand-made. https://youtu.be/ejhtYYvUs5M https://youtu.be/ejhtYYvUs5M
- zem 4y ago
  seconded! i don't even like regular sudoku all that much, but i'm totally hooked on the variant ones from that channel.
hibikir 4y ago
An interesting choice. From where I stand, they have a pretty bad sudoku implementation. While the UI is generally fine, it has iffy definitions of difficulty, an woeful hint system, and does nothing to make you get better. I compare it to, say, Good Sudoku by Zach Gage (No affiliation). It has a wider differences in difficulty levels, based on the algorithmic patterns humans would need to use to solve them. The game includes a list of all the patterns you might need to use for a given difficulty level, and the hints are based on those patterns, which are the same you can find in any high level sudoku solving site. Where The NY Times sudoku would point you cryptically to a cell, a hint system would say 'Given that one of this two cells must be a 9, that means that this other cell cannot be a nine', so you learn how you missed. Not that NYT games is bad at all, It's just their sudoku that needs some help.
- gverrilla 4y ago
  I cannot speak for Good Sudoku because I never play the game on mobile, so I suppose our use cases for UI are completely different. Funny because what I like the most about nyt sudoku is the difficulty (level design): they are on point for me, I always do the 3 in sequence, and it's always a pleasure. Hard is just hard enough for a good pastime. Sometimes Medium is harder than Hard, although it's rare, lol.
LikeBeans 4y ago
Btw, and in case anyone is interested... I made a Sudoku game for fun: https://kjabr.github.io/Sudoku/ https://kjabr.github.io/Sudoku/

If you like Sudoku, check out Sudoku + extra rules. This channel solves them daily, which I really enjoy watching, but they also have a link in the description to a great website where you can solve it yourself, for free. They are all hand-made. https://youtu.be/ejhtYYvUs5M https://youtu.be/ejhtYYvUs5M

zem 4y ago
seconded! i don't even like regular sudoku all that much, but i'm totally hooked on the variant ones from that channel.

hibikir 4y ago

An interesting choice. From where I stand, they have a pretty bad sudoku implementation. While the UI is generally fine, it has iffy definitions of difficulty, an woeful hint system, and does nothing to make you get better. I compare it to, say, Good Sudoku by Zach Gage (No affiliation). It has a wider differences in difficulty levels, based on the algorithmic patterns humans would need to use to solve them. The game includes a list of all the patterns you might need to use for a given difficulty level, and the hints are based on those patterns, which are the same you can find in any high level sudoku solving site. Where The NY Times sudoku would point you cryptically to a cell, a hint system would say 'Given that one of this two cells must be a 9, that means that this other cell cannot be a nine', so you learn how you missed. Not that NYT games is bad at all, It's just their sudoku that needs some help.

gverrilla 4y ago
I cannot speak for Good Sudoku because I never play the game on mobile, so I suppose our use cases for UI are completely different. Funny because what I like the most about nyt sudoku is the difficulty (level design): they are on point for me, I always do the 3 in sequence, and it's always a pleasure. Hard is just hard enough for a good pastime. Sometimes Medium is harder than Hard, although it's rare, lol.

LikeBeans 4y ago

Btw, and in case anyone is interested... I made a Sudoku game for fun: https://kjabr.github.io/Sudoku/ https://kjabr.github.io/Sudoku/