Sudoku Alternatives
Sudoku is described as 'logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle game. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9' and is a Puzzle Game in the Games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Sudoku for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPad, Android Tablet, iPhone and Windows. The best alternative is Simple Sudoku. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Open Sudoku or HoDoKu. Other Sudoku like games are Yasminoku (Free Personal), Sudoku Portable (Free, Open Source), OpenSudoku (Free, Open Source) and Color Sudoku (Free, Open Source).
- Simple Sudoku makes high quality puzzles that are symmetrical, have a single solution, and do not require trial & error to solve. The user can also choose between five levels of complexity - from Easy to Extreme.
- Yasminoku is a sudoku game, generator and solver created by Joan Alba Maldonado on 25th of July 2006 which has been now improved.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Symbian S60
- HP webOS
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
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- iPad
- Blackberry 10
- PlayBook
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Kindle Fire
- Firefox OS
- Raspberry Pi
- Opera
- Chromium
- Firefox
- HoDoKu is a sudoku helper written in Java and available in English and German. Generate sudokus in five different and fully configurable difficulty levels. Solve them yourself (with help from HoDoKu's hint system) or let HoDoKu do it for you.
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer updated, but last version, 2.2.0, released in July 2012, it's fully working and can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Sudoku Portable is the entertaining and addictive Sudoku puzzle game packaged as a portable app, so you can play on the go.
- The developer marked this project as "no longer being actively maintained" on 2016-04-06, so you should rather use it's succesor Open Sudoku.
Discontinued
The developer marked this project as "no longer being actively maintained" on 2016-04-06. See https://github.com/romario333/opensudoku
- Sudoku game with numbers, letters or colors. Board size can be from 4 to 20 (default size is 9). You can play many variants - Killer, Greater Than, Consecutive, Odd/Even, Diagonal, Samurai. This program contains editor, solver and can create PDF.
- Sudoku Solver & Sudoku Generator is a 2 in 1 application, designed for phones and tablets, allowing you to:
- A very small program for playing the original game of Sudoku. Created specifically for use from a USB stick drive. Completely portable. Completely green.
- Get Sudoku is an interactive sudoku solver.
Discontinued
Not updated since 2016 from SourceForge.net.