Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition - Nintendo DS

The Ultimate Puzzle Games - Sudoku Edition is the best Sudoku software I have tried. It has many choices for puzzles: the Classic 9 x 9 grid with Easy, Medium, Hard and Extreme levels of difficulty. It offers also the Eight 8 x 8 or Mini 6 x 6 grid with Easy and Medium levels. Has also a Junior grid which is a 4 x 4 with an Easy level. It offers from the very basic, beginner level to the extreme hard puzzles. If you get interrupted and cannot finish the game, YOU CAN SAVE IT if for later by pressing the START button on the DS console. A Menu opens offering a Game sub-menu with choices for Restart Puzzle, Solve Puzzle or Quit. Next is the Options sub-menu with the choices for SAVE, Reset Best Time, Music, ERROR HIGHLIGHT, Background and How to Play. Besides this, when playing the game you have on the screen icons that allow you to pencil-in or erase candidates, erase entries, undo last move or redo last move. I have played the Sudokus that come with the BRAIN AGE games and prefer the ones from the Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition. The BRAIN AGE software frequently has trouble recognizing the numbers I am trying to pencil-in or enter, showing a 9 when I am trying to enter a 4, a 1 instead of a 7, and so on. It is quite annoying. With the Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition I DON'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM, the numbers are tapped in, they are not "written" by hand. Also, the BRAIN AGE Sudokus do not offer the different kinds of Sudoku puzzles the Ultimate Puzzles Sudoku Edition offers, nor do they have the unlimited number of puzzles this software can create. The Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition software is the one I prefer and I highly recommend it as the best.

This Sudoku game is one of the best I've seen. I Sudoku on-line and in books that I've purchased and also a handheld version and I also have a version on my PC and this is really a good one. You can put the little pencil notations with ease and erase with ease. I also love that if you really get stuck that you can cheat and hit the "?" button and go to a square and it will solve just that square for you. I use it on some of the medium ones. I haven't tried the difficult level yet. Another good feature is that you can enter any puzzle from anywhere and solve it on the DS. I recommend this game to anyone who loves Sudoku.

It's a fun game with a few different sudoku puzzle options (classic, 8x8, 4x4, etc). I don't like how you have to input/erase/change the numbers into the boxes....expected it to be like the sudoku puzzles on the Brain Age games, but it's not even close.

This is enjoyable and so much easier/quicker than pencil and paper. Back lit so playable in a dark room. It lets you know when you're, possibly, making an error then you can back up and look for the correct move or ask the game to show you. If things get to be too much of a mess you can start the game over. The game can also be saved, like when you're falling asleep playing it after bed time, and finished later, like when you're awake. Well worth the money!

My wife and I have been playing the Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku game for the DS for a few months now. We both like to play at the Hard difficulty setting. At the Extreme difficulty setting, I can't solve some of the puzzles logically, even though I've scoured the Internet for sudoku tips. After several bad experiences, I'm inclined to think that at least some of these Extreme puzzles aren't really fair, in the sense that they don't have solutions that can be found without guessing. What makes this game so much more fun than the sudoku in Brain Age 2 is 1) you don't have to run a gauntlet of annoying nonsense to get started with the sudoku game, 2) you can very quickly enter small numbers into a bunch of boxes by simply tapping each box in succession (once you've touched the two appropriate keys to the left of the screen) and 3) you can just as easily remove small numbers from a bunch of boxes by tapping each one (once you've touched the three appropriate keys to the left of the screen). Since you're going to need to use small numbers to solve puzzles at the Hard level, having an efficient method for adding and removing these numbers makes the game more enjoyable. My main reservation about this game is that, as mentioned above, at least some of the Extreme puzzles seem to be impossible to solve logically. I wish I knew more about sudoku puzzle design, but it seems to me that a good sudoku puzzle must be a product of a human mind, rather than something generated by a computer. Since these puzzles are supposedly generated randomly by the software, that may account for the appearance of unsolvable puzzles at the Extreme setting. Addendum: After writing this review, I've learned a little more about solving Extreme puzzles. For one thing, I've found that even my local newspaper prints some level 4 puzzles that cannot be solved using the techniques I learned on-line. The newspaper provides a link to a web site, [...], which explains most of the techniques that I previously learned, and - when these techniques don't work - actually recommends guessing to solve more difficult puzzles! I didn't know that it was OK to guess. However, even though it's possible to solve puzzles by guessing, I don't think it's fun to play that way, so I'm sticking to the Hard difficulty setting with this game. Incidentally, another nice feature of this game is that it allows you to enter a sudoku game you might find in a book or newspaper and solve it using the DS machine, which is easier than writing and erasing small numbers on paper.

Ugly interface!!! Can't use the pen and write the numbers, have to pick from a list of numbers. Very annoying... Very bad when comparing to the interface from Brain Age!!! I would return this game, but Amazon doesn't accept it if game is opened. If you think that this game has a good interface... you haven't tried Brain Age yet!!!!

I guess if you like to be timed to play a game....race against the clock then you will enjoy it. But for me, I want to relax and take my time. If you don't finish it in the time that is allowed it quits. I would not purchase this game again based on this.

This game is wonderful and easy to navigate. There are many different puzzles and variations to try and the games keep your mind stimulated for hours. Especially if you are waiting for a bus, plane, or taxi or even riding in one. The system's touch and drop box screen is wonderful and responsive compared to other Sudoku games that do not recognize your writing in the boxes. In summary, this game works as advertised without the extra fluff and loads quickly without bloated information screens.