Sudoku Tactics and Tips made Easy

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:38:52 GMT

Using graphic designs and music very similar to its impressive rendition of Mahjong, only with Japanese rather than Chinese aesthetics, Electronic Arts has created a charming fifth-generation iPod version of Sudoku ($5, now also known as Num-pre in Japan) - one that’s more approachable and fully-featured than the pencil-and-paper versions that preceded it. Besides providing you with ...

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:08:45 GMT

You asked, we listened. After our iPhone Gems roundups of all of the iPhone Mahjong and racing games, we took on an even bigger project: compiling a master list of all of the iPhone’s Sudoku software. This wasn’t easy: there were so many versions of Sudoku, collectively costing over $70, that we literally crashed our iPhone 3G trying to install them all at once. Now, after fully restoring the ...

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:09:30 GMT

For the sake of completeness, we’ll go through it anyway. Scrabble sets a partially colored, 15x15 grid in front of one, two, three, or four players, giving each player a set of seven tiles marked with letters and numbers. A given tile’s letter is assigned a certain number of points—that’s the number—and each player’s goal is to make words with the tiles, racking up points for using more ...