Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition

by Telegames

Product Features

• All Sudoku games are NOT alike!  Telegames has again teamed with Puzzle.tv, the world s leading quiz-meisters, to create the largest and most comprehensive compilation of Sudoku puzzle games ever released for a portable gaming system.  Some of the outstanding features include:  Unlimited number of puzzles - virtually infinite number of puzzles, thanks to an internal algorithm that r

Product Details

• ASIN: B000UCMI4Y
• Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.4 x 4.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,216 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #49 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Action

Product Description

All Sudoku games are NOT alike!
 
Telegames has again teamed with Puzzle.tv, the worlds leading quiz-meisters, to create the largest and most comprehensive compilation of Sudoku puzzle games ever released for a portable gaming system.
 
Some of the outstanding features include:  

• Unlimited number of puzzles - virtually infinite number of puzzles, thanks to an internal algorithm that randomly generates millions of puzzles.
• Four grid layouts. Uses touch screen and stylus.
• Multiple difficulty selections, including sections for younger players.
• Use erasable pencil marks to help solve the puzzle...without tearing the newspaper!
• Select your choice of background from 10 cool images.  
• Compare your best times to solve the puzzles with target solution times.  
• On-screen 'How to play' instructions and button actions.  
• Save the puzzle status and other options for later.  
• PC-style menus allow easy and intuitive configuration and navigation.  
• Sudoku Solver - manually input any puzzle from any other source and solve the puzzle using your DS.  
• Wirelessly play all head-to-head modes with either one or two game cards.
• Game Share feature - wirelessly download the entire game to another DS for their independent play or for multi-player action with only one game card. Its even easier than sharing music files...and its FREE!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

88 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best..., August 29, 2007

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Chynared21 (Staten Island, New York USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition (Video Game)

Sudoku title for the Nintendo DS. I've owned a couple of the other games available for the DS and this one is simply the best and easiest to use. My major complaint about other versions was having to use the control pad to get to the box you wanted to place a number in. In the Ultimate Puzzle Games edition, you tap the number and just tap the boxes you want that number to be placed in...simple. You truly get the feel of the game as if you were playing on paper with a pencil.

Speaking of pencils...you can make pencil marks, erase, or undo the last move made. There is also a set time to beat but it does not end the game should you go over the time limit, it's just a goal. A graph up top keeps track of how many times each number is used and in a way can guide you as to which number to try and fill in first.

I've only played on the easy setting so far to get the hang of the game play itself. I would rate easy as and equivalent of medium in the puzzle books. I don't think there is the fear of running out of games as it's supposed to generate new ones automatically.

I haven't tried any of the other grids available as I just love the original premise of the game. I bought this game two weeks ago and haven't stopped playing it since...a great addition to your game library :-)

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Sudoku game for DS, April 12, 2008

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Larson Juhl - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition (Video Game)

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.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kewl Sudoku Game, January 6, 2008

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Me "Me" (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Ultimate Puzzle Games Sudoku Edition (Video Game)

Good interface for entering your numbers and allowing you to make notes for possible solutions. If you like Sudoku and have a DS then this is a good value for what you get. Unlimited games too. It generates new grids. Brain Age's Sudoku doesn't have that. Enjoy.