5/10/2023 0 Comments Spelltower minutes![]() We all imagine the answer will reveal in a burst of beauty itself like it did in the viral Sudoku video, where a mathematician completed a puzzle that awed him in its grace. Part of completing a puzzle is being stumped, setting stuck, and then seeing the elegant solution that wasn't clear until you took a break. Now I can recognize patterns and solutions at a glance, after having had Good Sudoku show me examples of them. But learning Sudoku with these tools made me understand the puzzles better once I took them away. It's hard to shake that in the first few puzzles, as you watch these learning tools do all the work for you. ![]() At first, I felt like using these tools were cheating. On top of that, Good Sudoku also has short guides that walk you through more advanced concepts and give you an opportunity to identify them and practice solving them.īy using Focus Mode, automatic note taking and practicing with the guides, I have cut down my time on the Expert level puzzles from 15 minutes to under 10. This means if you're really stumped on where to place that 2, you can very quickly have a visual guide for the possibilities, allowing you to more easily understand how the board is read, and how to fill it. In Good Sudoku, there's an automatic note taking function, cutting down that busy work.Įven more helpful than the auto-note taking is Focus Mode, which highlights the squares where a particular number has been filled in, and also every square affected by those placements. If you're playing with a pencil and paper, you can make notes on each square, meticulously noting where each number can or cannot be. Describing this puzzle in words already gives me a headache trying to figure out where to place a number just based on the filled in squares based on the scant information you're given is even more daunting. You're given hints to where to place the digits based on the squares that have already been filled in for you. A Sudoku puzzle is a grid of nine by nine "houses" that are themselves placed in a three by three grid.Each row, column and house must contain the digits one through nine, and can only contain one of each number. The small quality of life features in this game make a big difference to players that don't understand the core concepts of Sudoku. In Good Sudoku, he has not only made a pleasant version of the game to play on my phone, but a teaching tool that shows new players the magic of solving a Sudoku puzzle. It would appear that Zach Gage, developer of puzzle games like Really Bad Chess and Spelltower, shares my frustration with Sudoku apps.
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