At RomanSudoku dot com you can find another Sudoku variant by Laura Gibbs. As the name already tells you it uses Roman Numerals in stead of our usual numbers.

At the website you can also order Roman Sudoku book. The Roman Sudoku book costs US$ 11.95 and contains 40 Roman Sudoku puzzles: 10 very easy puzzles (perfacile), 10 easy puzzles (facile), 10 difficult puzzles (difficile), and 10 very difficult puzzles (perdifficile), with solutions provided. The book is spiral-bound, making it convenient to handle while you are working a puzzle.

The next installment in the SuDoku Dragon Gems series that features even more numeric puzzles of increasing difficulty with an all new look Christmas theme.

Can you become a SuDoku Dragon Gems Master?… Only the best will succeed. Try to complete 25 numeric SuDoku puzzles that span Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels that are a match for all levels of SuDoku player.

More information at Brothersoft. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Sudoku | Mobile Puzzle

Sudoku is for all ages, but now Sudoku is also used to help girls aged between 9 and 13.

A brand called The Beacon Street Girls (BSG) uses Sudoku and as one of their activities to be committed to the health and well being of girls between nine and thirteen.

The mission of the BSG company is to provide the kind of positive role models and empowering messages that help girls believe in themselves whatever their challenges. This is supported by a website where girls can play puzzles like Sudoku.

At passion for puzzle we will help [Read More...]

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...]

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...]

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

Agetec, Inc. announce the upcoming Brain Buster Puzzle Pak for the Nintendo DS, featuring the latest and most challenging Japanese mind games including Sudoku and Kakuro. The release is scheduled for February 2007, the Brain Buster Puzzle Pak will provide abundant challenges for novices and experts alike with a deep selection of added bonus materials.

Brain BusterPuzzle Pak features hundreds of puzzles ranging from the hugely popular Sudoku to the latest craze in Japan, Kakuro. Also included are the uniquely challenging and innovative games Light Up, Nurikabe, and Slitherlink. These puzzles have all been created in conjunction [Read More...]