I'm surprised nobody's yet suggested ways to make a "better" version of Sudoku. What it is so far is a good start, but there could be a lot more done to it to make it better, for example:
On-line help Better Manual Allow use of letter, colors, symbols, etc. instead of just numbers Different "playability hardness" levels Allow "super-hints" (partial/complete fill-in by the computer) The biggest thing missing, though, is some way to keep "user notes" in each square. As I'm doing a Sudoku puzzle on paper, I write and erase/cross-out numbers at the bottom of each square as I work through the puzzle paring down the (im)possibilities. There may be people who can just "look" at a Sudoku puzzle and figure it out, but I certainly can't. It is a long, involved logical elimination process, and I have to write down notes as I go along. If I'm unable to write notes in an electronic version, I won't use it. The computer could even do the notes automatically (at least the type of notes I use, which are simply the numbers for a box that can't yet be eliminated as possibilities). I've seen other people write their notes at the top of the box, and I've experimented a little with different solution methods that involve using all four sides of a box for notes (with different sides corresponding to different "kinds" of notes). Different people may use different methods, and an electronic version should enable the same kinds of things someone can do with a paper version. *********** I must also say that having it only require an 8086 is the correct approach. Even though almost everything these days has at least a pentium class machine, a Sudoku game certainly doesn't need more resources than an 8086 can provide. While it's not chic these days, it's the correct approach, IMO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
