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| From: Telegames
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $19.99
New (3) Used (2) from $19.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 806
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
UPC: 834815005031
EAN: 0834815005031
ASIN: B000UCMI4Y
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 puzzle lovers June 30, 2008
If you like or even love suduko I want you to know this is a good game because it gives many levels and changes patterns. I love the fact that you get to chose from tapping or writing out the numbers. I have only had it a couple of days and am trying to get use to that but I will. My disability makes me a little slow on remembering things. but it is cool because you don't have to deal with a character like in brain age.
Very Good Sudoku game for DS April 13, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
My wife and I have been playing the Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku game for the DS for a few months now. We both like to play at the Hard difficulty setting. At the Extreme difficulty setting, I can't solve some of the puzzles logically, even though I've scoured the Internet for sudoku tips. After several bad experiences, I'm inclined to think that at least some of these Extreme puzzles aren't really fair, in the sense that they don't have solutions that can be found without guessing.
What makes this game so much more fun than the sudoku in Brain Age 2 is 1) you don't have to run a gauntlet of annoying nonsense to get started with the sudoku game, 2) you can very quickly enter small numbers into a bunch of boxes by simply tapping each box in succession (once you've touched the two appropriate keys to the left of the screen) and 3) you can just as easily remove small numbers from a bunch of boxes by tapping each one (once you've touched the three appropriate keys to the left of the screen). Since you're going to need to use small numbers to solve puzzles at the Hard level, having an efficient method for adding and removing these numbers makes the game more enjoyable.
My main reservation about this game is that, as mentioned above, at least some of the Extreme puzzles seem to be impossible to solve logically. I wish I knew more about sudoku puzzle design, but it seems to me that a good sudoku puzzle must be a product of a human mind, rather than something generated by a computer. Since these puzzles are supposedly generated randomly by the software, that may account for the appearance of unsolvable puzzles at the Extreme setting.
Addendum:
After writing this review, I've learned a little more about solving Extreme puzzles. For one thing, I've found that even my local newspaper prints some level 4 puzzles that cannot be solved using the techniques I learned on-line. The newspaper provides a link to a web site, www.sudoku.org.uk, which explains most of the techniques that I previously learned, and - when these techniques don't work - actually recommends guessing to solve more difficult puzzles! I didn't know that it was OK to guess.
If it's OK to guess on more difficult puzzles, I should raise my rating for this Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku game to 5 stars, since it makes it easy to solve puzzles by guessing. At the Extreme setting (the only setting where guessing should be necessary), when I reach an impasse after using all the logical tricks I know to solve a puzzle, I just select a square that has only 2 small numbers in it. It should be a square where guessing will lead to changes in other squares. I write the square's address (e.g. row 2, column 3) on a piece of paper, together with the 2 available small numbers. Then I arbitrarily guess and circle the choice I made on my piece of paper. I can then move along through the puzzle until I reach a contradiction, telling me that I guessed wrong. At that point, I repeatedly touch the Undo button on the left margin of the sudoku screen until I get back to where I was when I guessed. Now I can guess the other available small number, and the puzzle should soon be solved. However, even though it's possible to solve puzzles by guessing, I don't think it's fun to play that way, so I'm sticking to the Hard difficulty setting with this game.
Incidentally, another nice feature of this game is that it allows you to enter a sudoku game you might find in a book or newspaper and solve it using the DS machine, which is easier than writing and erasing small numbers on paper.
 Lots of Sudoku Games March 13, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you love Sudoku you will love this game. I'm hooked. I love the touch screen and other user friendly features of this game.
Kewl Sudoku Game January 7, 2008
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Good interface for entering your numbers and allowing you to make notes for possible solutions. If you like Sudoku and have a DS then this is a good value for what you get. Unlimited games too. It generates new grids. Brain Age's Sudoku doesn't have that. Enjoy.
The best... August 29, 2007
40 out of 42 found this review helpful
Sudoku title for the Nintendo DS. I've owned a couple of the other games available for the DS and this one is simply the best and easiest to use. My major complaint about other versions was having to use the control pad to get to the box you wanted to place a number in. In the Ultimate Puzzle Games edition, you tap the number and just tap the boxes you want that number to be placed in...simple. You truly get the feel of the game as if you were playing on paper with a pencil.
Speaking of pencils...you can make pencil marks, erase, or undo the last move made. There is also a set time to beat but it does not end the game should you go over the time limit, it's just a goal. A graph up top keeps track of how many times each number is used and in a way can guide you as to which number to try and fill in first.
I've only played on the easy setting so far to get the hang of the game play itself. I would rate easy as and equivalent of medium in the puzzle books. I don't think there is the fear of running out of games as it's supposed to generate new ones automatically.
I haven't tried any of the other grids available as I just love the original premise of the game. I bought this game two weeks ago and haven't stopped playing it since...a great addition to your game library :-)
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