Sudoku: The Mind Game is a recent freeware computer game that was created for the Windows operating system on the personal computer. It was released in 2006 and falls into the category of a puzzle or strategy game. It was created to meet the needs of the sudden and rising popularity of the Sudoku Japanese puzzle game involving numbers and a simplistic nine by nine grid.
Sudoku: The Mind Game does not add anything terribly revolutionary to the genre of the Sudoku puzzle game.
Sudoku: The Mind Game is a recent freeware computer game that was created for the Windows operating system on the personal computer. It was released in 2006 and falls into the category of a puzzle or strategy game. It was created to meet the needs of the sudden and rising popularity of the Sudoku Japanese puzzle game involving numbers and a simplistic nine by nine grid.
Sudoku: The Mind Game does not add anything terribly revolutionary to the genre of the Sudoku puzzle game. It presents itself on a lovely little blue background and shows a simple graphic of a small cottage against a plain background. The majority of the screen is taken up by the grid itself. Like a standard game of pen and paper
Sudoku, Sudoku: The Mind Game begins with a series of numbers scattered in apparent random fashion across the nine by nine square grid. The game is further divided into three three by three squares both across and down. The object of the game is to place numbers in the eighty one boxes on the grid so that several things match up. First of all, each three by three box on the grid must contain one of each numerical value one through nine, without any repeats. Secondly, each vertical column must contain one of each numerical value one through nine without any repeats. Finally, each horizontal row must also contain one of each numerical value one through nine with no repetition. The game gives the player or strategist a few scattered numbers from which to logically start his or her process of slotting in numbers. These beginning numbers cannot be manipulated or moved in any way, hence the user must work around them.
Sudoku: The Mind Game plays just like the actual pen and paper game of Sudoku, only without all of the crissing and crossing and messy paper work. The major difference between this computer version and the pen and paper variety is that this game is scored, where as the pen and paper classic puzzle game is considered either solved or not solved. With Sudoku: The Mind Game, the user begins with 2000 points, and every time the user makes a move across the grid to slot in a number in the puzzle, he loses points. Therefore, the more efficient and logical players end the game with a higher total score. The score is plainly displayed on the left side of the blue screen in white lettering. The game is also timed.
This is a nice little logic puzzle. It is just as fun as the pen and paper classic game, but the element of scoring adds a little bit of fun and challenge to the game.
