Doug at Just Another Mobile Monday has posted a comprehensive roundup of some of the currently available Sudoku games. For those that haven’t yet caught the craze, “the rules are fairly simple. Gameplay proceeds on a 9×9 grid, which is further divided into 9, 3×3 squares. Based upon the numerical clues provided, the object of the game is to fill in the numbers 1-9 in each of the 81 boxes, without repeating a number in any horizontal row, vertical column, or 3×3 square.”
Doug has already reviewed my favorite version, Astraware Sudoku, as well as Spb Sudoku which is included in Spb Brain Evolution, and now he has added nine more notches to his title belt.
According to Doug’s email:
The Sudoku craze has truly captured the hearts and imaginations of America. Who knew that 81 small squares and simple counting could become such an addictive craze. The game sounds simple enough: just arrange the numbers from 1-9 into a 9×9 grid so that every number is represented in each row, column, and 3×3 box. Sounds easy enough.
Once people started becoming overly adept at the strategies of the traditional game, gamemakers began introducing wild and creative variants of the game. Some are only a small step away from traditional Sudoku, while others bear little resemblance to the original game. This roundup included nine Sudoku games which, with the exception of MultiSudoku which I purposely save for last, were presented in no particular order or grouping:
1. Wordoku To Go
2. Head2Head Sudoku
3. Kokonotsu
4. Sudoku GL
5. The Sudoku Collection
6. Solitaire Sudoku
7. ISS Killer Sudoku
8. Sudoku 3D
9. Multi Sudoku III searched the Internet and found nine amazing and creative variants of the Sudoku game, which I have included in my roundup, entitle: Sudoku: 81 Squares Can’t Be Wrong. I posted my roundup at JAMM tonight, and would certainly appreciate a link.
Additionally, as you can see in the last paragraph of the roundup, I am now considering a more general roundup of the genre which gave birth to the Sudoku craze, Japanese numbers puzzles.
If you or your readers have any recommendations for games which should be included in that roundup, please email them to me. I plan to publish my follow up round up sometime later this summer.
