Directory of Variants Resources

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This category is for sites about variations of traditional Sudoku. Such variations may include Word Doku (using letters that often spell words), deviations from the 9×9 grid with the 3×3 regions (for example: non-square regions, larger/smaller grids, combined boards, and so on) or any other variation.

Subcategories

• Calcudoku
• Killer Sudoku

Resources in This Category

• 10 Hardest Logic/Number Puzzles

  http://www.calcudoku.org/hardest_logic_number_puzzles/
  A list of the hardest known puzzles for Sudoku and several Sudoku variants.

• Dr. Gareth Moore's Puzzlemix

  http://www.puzzlemix.com/
  Site with many Sudoku variants, all playable online.

• Fun With Puzzles

  http://www.funwithpuzzles.com/
  Contain lots of Sudoku as well as logical and fun puzzles. Also offers many online games.

• Giant Sudokus

  http://sudokugeant.cabanova.fr/
  Sudokus in many sizes from 6x6 to 100x100.

• LatinPuzzles.com

  http://miguelpalomo.pythonanywhere.com/latinpuzzles/menu.html
  Generalizes Sudoku with varied boards, repeated symbols and full words inside the boards.

• Mathematical Recreations

  http://www.mathrec.org/sudoku/
  Custom Word Doku puzzles devised by Steve Schaefer. Features an entire sentence embedded into the puzzle.

• Parole Crociate

  http://www.parolecrociate.net/en/index.asp
  Site with user-submitted puzzles, including Sudoku variants, crosswords, rebus, etc. Puzzles can be solved online for points. [English/Italiano]

• pi-c-it Sudoku

  http://www.pi-c-it.de/index.php/en/
  Generates and solves classic and X-Sudoku problems. Diverse options and an integrated help facility.

• Picture Sudoku

  http://www.picturesudoku.co.uk/
  Sudoku variant using sets of puzzles, with matching coloured regions in each puzzle having the same solution.

• Real Sudoku3D

  http://www.realsudoku3d.com/
  3D Sudoku program for Windows and Mac. Easy puzzles are free, others cost money.

• Samurai Sudoku

  http://www.samurai-sudoku.com/
  Offers one puzzle each day, with a step-by-step solver.

• Sidokus

  http://www.sidokus.com/
  Sidokus are musical sudokus, with musical notes instead of numbers and a hidden melody.

• Sudo10 Sudoku variant

  http://www.sudo10.com/
  The usual rules of sudoku apply, but the board is an 8x8 board split into 8 triangular cells.

• Sudoku variants

  http://www.innoludic.com/
  Site with many Sudoku variants not seen elsewhere.

• Sudoku123.ca

  http://sudoku123ca.wordpress.com/
  A set of rules applicable to a regular Sudoku, that allows 2 to 5 players solve a single puzzle, and compete for points. [English/Français]

• Sudokuto

  http://www.menneske.no/sudokuto/eng/
  Two-player variant. Offers several board sizes to play against the computer. This site has many other Sudoku variations (e.g., Wordoku, 3D Sudoku, Calcudoku, Greater Than Sudoku, etc.) [English/Norsk]

• SudokuWiki

  http://www.sudokuwiki.org
  Site with Sudoku and many variants, as well solvers, strategy explanations, etc.

 

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