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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: October 01, 2008
- Total Downloads: 2,036
- Downloads last week: 8
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on October 26, 2009
SuDoKu-Cracker is a feature-filled version of the popular Sudoku number puzzle. With plenty of options and difficulty levels, this game is sure to satisfy the most serious Sudoku player.
The game's interface isn't stunning, but it's fairly intuitive, with large, easy-to-read numbers. All of the program's features are arranged to the right of the grid, giving users easy access to them. Beginning Sudoku players may wish for a little more explanation of the features and how they're useful--the online Help file doesn't address this--but experienced players will have no trouble. (And, really, beginning players can figure things out with a bit of experimentation.) The program has a strikeout feature that shows red lines over the grid where a given number appears, making it easy for users to see potential open spaces for each number. Users can also highlight each number in 11 different colors. SuDoKu-Cracker offers seven different levels of difficulty, and the online Help file describes the strategy that will be needed to solve each one. Again, we find the Help file a bit lacking; while all of this will make sense to the more experienced player, beginners will likely wish for more information. We liked the fact that puzzles can be saved and printed for users who wish to come back to a game or solve it on paper. Overall, we felt that the program offered a nice combination of features and playability.
SuDoKu-Cracker is free. It installs desktop icons without asking and leaves a file behind upon removal. We recommend this program to ambitious beginners and intermediate and advanced users.
Publisher's description
From KSAW :The SuDoKu-Cracker only creates puzzles with a 'unique solution'. The built-in Sudoku-generator has seven different levels of difficulty and can generate an 'infinity' of different puzzles in very high quality. All puzzles can be printed, saved, and opened again. And exported to e.g. HTML and RTF documents.
Application features: Show/hide 'candidates'. Exclude candidates from field. Undo/redo. Copy and paste. Drag and drop. Several ways to mark fields, in 11 different colors. Save to file. Printing (optional with solutions). Export. Supports both mouse and keyboard. Solving puzzles (Helper): Supports most common solution methods. 'Help-function' show next logical step (Hint). 'Help-function' solve next logical step. Making puzzles (generator): 'Infinite' of different puzzles- seven levels of difficulty. Only unique high-quality puzzles. Both symmetric and asymmetric puzzles. Version 2008.09 includes unspecified updates.
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Version 2008.09 includes unspecified updates.
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Version: SuDoKu-Cracker 2008.09
"The best freeware Sudoku program I've seen"
Pros: Uses many advanced techniques (x wing, xy wing, swordfish, conjugate pairs) and the usual simpler methods. Gives explanations of what it is doing. Check Sudoku Cracker website for even more detailed explanations. Multiple options for export/save.
Cons: When run full screen, the controls don't get any larger. This makes it a little tricky to operate.
Summary: I really like this Sudoku program. It has just about all of the features of other programs of it's type, plus many more - more like a program you would have to pay money for. It generates, slices and dices, does most of the advanced techniques and... read more >>
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