A text Sudoku game has been launched, allowing users to complete puzzles by texting missing numbers to a shortcode number.

The game has been released by The Times newspaper and mobile and wireless services company Divine. Puzzles are printed in the newspaper and players can text in the numbers to solve the puzzle.

It costs £1 to play. The game will run indefinitely and there is a chance to win £1000 everyday.

Mobile Operator O2 Active released a Suduko puzzle service in August this year which allows users to download suduko games to their handset for [Read More...]

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Save the dying world of Kuros by reassembling ancient glyphs hidden beneath layers of rock and glistening stones.

Clear groups of like-colored gemstones to break through the layers of rock and reveal the glyphs. Several different types of power-up will aid you in your task. Progress through 5 elemental areas and 125 levels to complete Quest mode, or explore the simpler challenge of over 100 levels in Action mode.

Glyph for Palm OS and Windows Mobile is based upon the highly-acclaimed PC game from Sandlot Games. With its beautiful graphics, ethereal soundtrack and atmospheric sound effects, Glyph is the perfect [Read More...]

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Are you looking for your personalized Rubik’s Cube? Then this special frame can display one photo per each side of the cube, making a total of 6 different photos in one product. Each photo is split into nine separate squares that measure 2 cm each so the photo can become a bit irregular, but that is just a small detail right?

The Photo Rubik’s Cube comes in black and you must provide six digital photos that will afterwards become part of the cube mania. The personalized Rubik’s Cube will cost you US$26 at PersonalizationMall and will [Read More...]

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Namco’s Scrabble clone ‘Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan’ is already released in the arcades as well as for PS2 and GBA, it was a launch title for the PSP and even had a Xenosaga version, Xenopittan, included in the awesome Xenosaga Freaks variety game.

Like Scrabble the game is about using tiles to form words, but with added specific goals like “fill every square” or “make 10 three-letter words in one minute” and a sweet combo system. In addition to being able to use the touch-screen (which should be a huge bonus), Mojipittan DS adds a “picture book” mode into the [Read More...]

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After three editions of Sudoku for Dummies, there is now Extreme Sudoku For Dummies available. Extreme Sudoku for Dummies will teach you to complete a killer puzzle in 85 minutes or less!

You can test your skills against some of the most deviously difficult puzzles ever devised. Inside the book you’ll find 236 of the trickiest, most demanding puzzles ever published, including several unusual variants like the normal 9×9 puzzles, 12×12 puzzles, 16×16 puzzles, Vanquish jigsaw Sudoku, Conquer killer Sudoku and Master circular puzzles.

Extreme Sudoku for Dummies also describes different techniques for solve Sudoku [Read More...]

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Hexagram is in difficult Java puzzle. It is a tiling puzzle with 19 mathematically derived patterns.

You have to place 19 black and white colored hexagram shaped tiles into a grid. After placing a tile you can rotate them to get the match you want. Don’t give up to fast, and you will be able to solve this puzzle. Only downside is that it won’t work with Firefox.

At the games page of Eric Solomon you can find more lovely on-line Java Puzzle games. Happy Puzzling!

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Via Digg.com I found Macdoku which is a free and open source Sudoku puzzle generator, solver, and assistant.

With Macdoku, you can easily manage the possibilities available to each square. The three main possibility constraints are updated live as you type, and other possibilities can be managed in elimination mode. Highlighting of squares with one remaining possibility can be toggled on and off.

Pressing TAB will now automatically fill in all such solved squares. It uses qqwing to generate new puzzles with various levels of difficulty, and Sudoku-solver-in-c as its solving engine. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Sudoku | Mac

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