Good Sudoku uses a dedicated onscreen number pad for filling out puzzles, a note-taking system, and hints to help you learn increasingly sophisticated techniques for solving puzzles.
Good Sudoku uses a dedicated number pad and a system to show you your options. Instead, they chose to run the puzzle generation AI in the background as you play, allowing the game to offer insights, tools that improve the experience, and hints, all of which remove the most frustrating aspects of the game. Gage and Schlesinger built a sudoku generator that created the over 70,000 puzzles in the game, but they didn’t stop there. As Gage and Schlesinger explain on the game’s website, sudoku puzzles are generated programmatically, allowing puzzle creators to dial in their difficulty. The object is to fill the grid with the digits 1 - 9, so there’s only one of each numeral in a row of 9 squares, a column of 9 squares, and the 3 x 3 sub-grids called houses.Įach board is filled in with some numbers to start, and the rest of the squares are left blank for you to fill in, which is where things get tricky. It’s played on a 9 x 9 grid subdivided into smaller 3 x 3 grids.
If you haven’t played sudoku before, the basics are pretty simple. However, after several days of playing the game, I’ve found that stripped of its tedious aspects, sudoku is engaging to the point of being addicting and a whole lot of fun. As a result, as much as I’ve enjoyed Gage’s other games, I approached Good Sudoku with a healthy dose of skepticism. I’ve played sudoku before and knew the rules, but it’s not a game that has ever grabbed me and stuck. Other times, it means removing the tedious and boring parts of games to breathe new life into them, which is precisely what he and Jack Schlesinger have accomplished with Good Sudoku. Sometimes that means turning the rules upside down and inside out like Flipflop Solitaire or Really Bad Chess. Zach Gage has a knack for giving classic games an interesting twist.
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