Sudokus - Beauty in a box (or 9 boxes, or 81)
Thursday, March 20th, 2008I just googled “sudoku” and got 49.800.000 hits. Then I tried “chess” and got a little over 47.000.000.
Yes, yes, I know that sudoku is a universal name, and that there are probably millions of chess sites under words like “schack”, “skak”, and so on - but still…
Sudokus in their present form saw daylight in 1979, and in that time, they’ve exploded in popularity way, way past all predictions.
My own sudoku engine SapientSudoku (at www.sudokucorner.com) is a real killer. We’ve tried it in solver mode on all the toughest über-ninja sudokus in magazines and other sites. Never failed.
If you play the desktop or online java version at the toughest level, you are bound to go mad half way through (or cheat), but we’ve actually pitted one SapientSudoku puzzle against SapientSudoku running in solver mode on another PC and it’s never failed to solve a puzzle - WITHOUT brute force guessing. Always through advanced algos that a dedicated human solver could do as well.